Checklist of the birds of Wanang Conservation Area, Papua New Guinea

Abstract

The Wanang Conservation Area in Papua New Guinea represents a large, community operated protected lowland rainforests. Based on surveys conducted in both the wet (November) and dry (July) seasons between 2010 and 2011, we report a total of 147 bird species known in the area around Swire station. Based on these surveys, we provide abundances of 120 bird species recorded during the standardized point-counts and mist-netting. Further, we add notes on the observations of another 27 bird species which we detected in the region outside of the standardized surveys. Finally, we compare our results with previous (2009) and later shorter surveys conducted in the region (2013 and 2019). In total, we document a cumulative total of 153 bird species recorded in the area to date.