Voyage ornithologique dans les îles Moluques du Sud (Indonésie)

The Indonesian archipelago of the Moluccas (Maluku) is composed of nearly a thousand islands scattered between Sulawesi in the west, New Guinea in the east, the Republic of East Timor and Australia to the south. The southern Moluccas are made up of 632 islands, the largest being Seram (or Ceram), Buru, Yamdena (Tanimbar Archipelago) and Wetar. They are part of the Wallacea, an intermediate biogeographic region extending between the Indo-Malaysian and Australasian ecozones: their avifauna, with a high rate of endemism, is therefore composed of asian and oceanian groups of birds. These lands, which are still little known to European birders, are therefore exciting, and some trips are proposed by specialized birding companies.
The Birdquest Tours company organized a Craig Robson-guided trip to Buru, Ambon, Haruku, Yamdena, Kai Kecil and Besar and Seram islands from the 4th to the 26th of November 2016, during which 265 species of birds were observed, including many endemic such as the Seram masked owl Tyto almae, a recently described bird with a still uncertain taxonomic status. We propose you a French version of the original report written by Craig Robson.