The Chickens of East Java
After a quick work visit to Thailand , I spent a couple more days in Cambodia and then flew back to Jakarta, where it was another week of work meetin s. That weekend I had free, so of course I took the chance to do another birding trip, this one to East Java. While West Java gets most of the hype among birders, East Java has a few specialties of its own, including a few endemic birds and some savanna and dry forest birds that are rather hard to find elsewhere on the island. I once again went with Bali Birding Tour, with whom I'd had a great time in Bali . On the morning of March 29, I flew from Jakarta to Banyuwangi, a small city on the far eastern tip of Java. At the airport I met up with Bayu, a colleague of Hery's who would be my guide for the weekend, along with Markus the dependable Bali Birding Tours driver. I was surprised to see it would be a different guide this time, but Bayu proved to be excellent- a very good birder, and great company and conversatio...