There is an orang utan conservation near Medan. You can travel there and get different cultures than Java. Bromo, a good spot for landscape photographer.įrom East Java capital, Surabaya, if you still have time, you can go by plane to Medan, in Sumatra island. If you want to go further to East Java, then you might want to visit Mt. You can see also beautiful rice fields there. There are also other interesting things to see there, such as the Borobudur temple, Prambanan temple, Mt. Go to 'keraton', where sultan still resides. to Yogyakarta and Surakarta where there are still prominent Javanese traditions. I suggest you go to Central Java province, esp. Javanese culture is maybe your top priority for photographs. If you haven't enough time, try to travel inside Java island first, because public transportations and services are the highest among others. You can't get enough even only for an island, because of its different cultures and landscape views. For any more in-depth identification, this guide will probably leave you wanting more.All islands are unique in Indonesia. These factors combined make species-level identification incredibly difficult.Īll in all, this guide might be useful for the beginning birder in Indonesia, especially to identify down to family or genus level.

The images are highly variable in quality – the Black Eagle is nothing but a black shape in the sky, discerning no identifiable features.

Black-shouldered Kite, Great Argus, Asian Koel). The complete lack of distribution maps means you have to read the accompanying text for each species to discover if the species is present in the area – but even then, this information is lacking in many (e.g. The guide covers 236 of the approximate 635 species described in the region, including the most common and charismatic species. However, you do get what you pay for: the experienced birder will be left disappointed.

A small and reasonably priced field guide, this might seem like a logical first option when looking for a guide to these three Indonesian islands.

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