Bird Watching
Bird watching West Bali National Park
The variety of habitat characteristics in West Bali National Park makes the types of birds that exist are also very varied. This diversity is because West Bali National Park has various types of forest vegetation such as mangrove forests, monsoon forests, savanna forests, lowland rainforests. With several types, the availability of food types and quantities in each vegetation is also different, thus affecting the number of bird species present.
Bird watching in West Bali National Park is an experience that should not be missed. The park is home to over 160 species of birds, including the endangered Bali Starling. The best time to go bird watching is early in the morning or late in the afternoon when the birds are most active.
Birding in West Bali National Park
Bali Barat National Park area is one of the best destination for short birding trips in Bali. We can get huge sight of wild birds even if only for a short time
We have 2 option of birdwatching package :
- Birdwatching 2.5 hours : Location : Banyuwedang Bay & Salt Pond, spot around 25 bird species
- Birdwatching 6 hours : Banyuwedang Bay, Tegal Bunder & Salt Pond, spot around 40 bird species
These are some of the bird species identified in West Bali National Park
- Ruby Throated Bulbul
- Yellow Vented Bulbul
- Ashy Drongo
- Black Drongo
- Greater Racquet -tailed Drongo
- Cinnereous Tit
- Racket Tailed Treepie
- Slender Billed Crow
- Crescent chested Babbler
- Horsfield’s Babbler
- Oriental Magpie Robin
- Bar Winged Prinia
- Flyeater
- Olive Backed Tailorbird
- Zitting Cisticola
- Striated Grassbird
- Black Naped Monarch
- Fulvous Chested Rhinomyias
- White-crowned Forktail
- Long- tailed Shrike
- Bali Starling / Bali Myna (Leucopsar rothschildi )
- Black winged Starling
- White Vented Myna
- Asian Pied Straling
- Asian Glossy Starling
- Olive Backed Sunbirds
- Scarlet Headed Flowerpecker
- Javan Sparrow
- Javan Munia
- Scaly Breated Munia
- Eurasian Tree Sparrow
- White Headed Munia
- Yellow-throated Hanging – parrot
- Striated Swallow
- Lemon-bellied White -eye
- Indonesia Honeyater
- Javan plover
- Malaysian Plover
- Common Redshank
- Common Sandpiper
- Grey Tailed Tattier
- Long Toed Stint
- Rufos Necked Stint
- Red Necked Phalarope
- Common Greenshank
- Rufos-necked Stint
- Whimbrel
- White Headed Stilt
- Beach Stone Curlew
- Black Naped Tern
- Swift Tern
- Australian Pelican
- Brown Bobby
- Javan Pond Heron
- Black Crowned Night Heron
- Great Billed Heron
- Little Egret
- Pasific Reef Egret
- Purple Heron
- Rufous Nigh Heron
- Lesser Adjuntant
- Wooly necked stork
- Sunda teal
- Wandering Whistling Duck
- Brahminy Kite
- Crested Hwak Eagle
- Crested Serpen Eagle
- Black Eagle
- Oriental Honey Buzzard
- White -bellied Sea Eagle
- Black Thighed Falconet
- Green Junglefowl
- Red Junglefowl
- White Breasted Waterhan
- Grey Plover
- Little Ringed Plover
- Oriental Plover
- Terek Sandpiper
- White Shouldered triller
- Black Wing Flycatchershrike
- Common Lora
- Black Headed Bulbul
- Red Eye Bulbul