Ciremai (almost) Cleanup
As I continued returning to Indonesia this year for various work projects, I began to realize that I was quickly running out of Javan endemics to see. Indonesia itself has approximately two gajillion endemic birds, and no-one has managed to see them all, but Java has a much more manageable 70 or so endemics and specialties, many of which rank up there as some of Indonesia's best birds. The majority of these are reasonably easy in the right habitat, a few are essentially impossible, being either extinct or almost extinct, and the rest are just bastards- uncommon even in the right habitat, or unless you know just the right person. I'd managed to connect with a good number of those bastard birds, like Javan Flameback and Javan Blue Flycatcher, on previous visits, but looking through my list of remaining endemics, it seemed that most of the rest of them were to be found up on the mountains. I'd gotten most of the mountain specialties on my hike up Gunung Gede back in 2019 (b...