Casual Fiji Birding
I got one full day of proper birding in Fiji, but after that most of my time was spent in the capital city of Suva going to various work meetings. Thankfully, Suva has to be up there as one of the best capital cities in the world for birding, mainly by virtue of the fact that it's just a 20-minute taxi ride from the excellent rainforest of the Colo-i-Suva Forest Park. I managed to spend a couple of early mornings of birding there, but even within Suva there are some interesting spots for a first-time Fiji birder like me. Suva itself is a pleasant city, located on a peninsula on the southeastern end of Viti Levu. Its position on the coast means it has a relatively moderate climate compared to Nadi in the northwest, and within the city the wide sidewalks and many parks and other public areas make it nicely walkable. It also has some interesting architecture remaining from the British colonial period. Between the violent repression of indigenous chiefdoms , the blackbirding slave t