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Australasia/Pacific/Polynesia
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Home of the Tuamotu Sandpiper (Prosobonia cancellata), Polynesia offers great birding and who better than to experience these enigmatic waders than with Birdquest. "Sitting with these cute waders was one of the highlights of the tour." The Polynesian triangle between Hawaii, New Zealand and Easter Island stretches about 8000 kilometres across the central Pacific Ocean. This vast area is dotted with numerous tropical islands, many of them of volcanic origin and never connected to the continents, hosting an array of endemic birdlife. In the vastness of the Pacific, birders have the chance to connect with a glorious collection of tropical and subtropical seabirds including Tahiti, Phoenix, Murphy's, Kermadec, Herald and Henderson Petrels, Christmas and Tropical Shearwaters, White-faced and Polynesian Storm-Petrels, Red-tailed and White-tailed Tropicbirds, Masked, Red-footed and Brown Boobies, Great and Lesser Frigatebirds, Spectacled (or Grey-backed), Sooty and Common White Terns, and Black, Brown, Blue and Grey Noddies, plus a selection of stragglers from cooler waters further south, such as Grey and Cape Petrels.
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 Tuamotu Sandpiper, copyright Pete Morris |
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