Welcome to New Guinea Birds

New Guinea is home for hundreds of beautiful birds living in rich and exquisite forests, high mountains and deep valleys. The breeding land- and freshwater avifauna that adorns Papua with a nearly mythical status, comprises more than 700 species. Here I would like to show you their beauty and fascinating behavior. Therefore I developed New Guinea Birds. New Guinea Birds are resource for the identification of all species living in mainland of New Guinea and surrounding islands.

                                                                                                                  Katerina Sam

Please note, New Guinea Birds will be under construction and development in 2016. I hope to update all information here by the end of the year.

About me:

I am scientist based at the Institute of Entomology, Biology Centre of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, and at Department of Zoology, Faculty of Science at University of South Bohemia, Czech Republic. I work mainly in Papua New Guinea, and I am very interested in Australian, Papuan and Melanesian avifauna. Please find more about my projects and publications on my web pages. In 2012, I received  EOL Rubenstein Fellow award that allowed me to work on this project about complete databaze of birds of New Guinea.

New Guinea Birds are growing:  Statistics 3.3.2013