Lake Murray Ecolodge
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Country: Papua New Guinea
Region: Western Province
We speak: English
Web site: www.pngtours.com/lakemurray.html
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Lake Murray Ecoodge is accessible from either Mount Hagen or Ambua Lodge on Mondays, and Fridays. Brisbane is usually the best departure city from Australia for the Lake Murray trips. Trans Niugini Tours has a special STOLA airfare (Short Take Off and Landing Aircraft) for these flights. Lake Murray is the largest lake in Papua New Guinea. During the wet season it spreads to occupy an area of about 2000 square kilometers. It has a population of about 5,000 people scattered in small villages, both on tiny islands and coastal areas of the lake. Island communities of stilted houses dot the water landscape of the lake. Dugout canoes are the primary mode of transportation and fishing is a major source of food to the local population. In keeping with our eco-friendly philosophy, the entire lodge operation is powered with the latest technology in solar power. This provides 24 hour electricity with 240 volt power, a luxury in this remote location.Services:
A school and small hospital make this the population centre of the surrounding area. An airstrip on the Station also provides air access to the area for small aircraft. Lake Murray Ecolodge arranges excursions around the lake in 8-seat river boats to visit top birding locations, local villages and fishing spots. Western province is home to over 50% of New Guineas total bird population. Lake Murray is one of the best bird watching areas in the Province. In addition to a host of migratory birds, several birds of paradise species, pelicans, hornbills, eagles, parrots and numerous other rarities have been sighted. Lake Murray is also known for its Black Bass, Barramundi and Saratoga fish. The kitchen staff cooks on a wood fired cookstove and outdoor grill for the daily catch and garden selections. A large garden provides fresh vegetables and fruit on site.Guestrooms:
Guests are accommodated in 12 individual cabin rooms overlooking the lake. They are furnished with king twin or double beds, ceiling fans, modern en-suite bathrooms, an elevated veranda and wonderful view of the lake. The main lodge building with a wraparound veranda houses a dining room, lounge, bar and reception. This veranda will be the place to enjoy exceptional sunsets over the water. All of the buildings have made use of local sago woven matting and timber providing a natural setting to fit with the location.
* Please note that the English bird names on this site follow the American terminology. If you can't find a species name, try searching by Family or latin name.
Status key: B = breeding species; RB - rare breeding; W = winter only; V - vagrant; RV = rare vagrant; TM - trans-migrant; In - introduced
Name |
Status | Name (lat) |
Family |
| Pale-billed Scrub Wren | B | Sericornis spilodera | Acanthizidae |
| Tropical Scrubwren | R | Sericornis beccarii | Acanthizidae |
| Rusty Mouse Warbler | R | Crateroscelis murina | Acanthizidae |
| Yellow-bellied Gerygone | B | Gerygone chrysogaster | Acanthizidae |
| Fairy Gerygone | B | Gerygone palpebrosa | Acanthizidae |
| Green-backed Gerygone | B | Gerygone chloronota | Acanthizidae |
| Large-billid Gerygone | B | Gerygone magnirostris | Acanthizidae |
| Brahminy Kite | B | Haliastur indus | Accipitridae |
| Crested Hawk | W | Aviceda subcristata | Accipitridae |
| New Guinea Harpy-eagle | R | Harpyopsis novaeguineae | Accipitridae |
| Grey Goshawk | W | Accipiter novaehollandiae | Accipitridae |
| White-bellied Sea-eagle | B | Haliaeetus leucogaster | Accipitridae |
| Spotted Marsh-harrier | R | Circus spilonotus | Accipitridae |
| Whistling Kite | B | Haliastur sphenurus | Accipitridae |
| Common Paradise-Kingfisher | B | Tanysiptera galatea | Alcedinidae |
| Blue-winged Kookaburra | B | Dacelo leachii | Alcedinidae |
| Little Paradise-Kingfisher | B | Tanysiptera hydrocharis | Alcedinidae |
| Rufous-bellied Kookaburra | B | Dacelo gaudichaud | Alcedinidae |
| Azure Kingfisher | B | Ceyx azureus | Alcedinidae |
| Forest Kingfisher | Todiramphus macleayii | Alcedinidae | |
| Yellow-billed Kingfisher | R | Syma torotoro | Alcedinidae |
| Little Kingfisher | B | Ceyx pusilla | Alcedinidae |
| Variable Dwarf Kingfisher | B | Ceyx lepidus | Alcedinidae |
| Sacred Kingfisher | TM | Todiramphus sancta | Alcedinidae |
| Spotted Whistling Duck | B | Dendrocygna guttata | Anatidae |
| Wandering Whistling-Duck | B | Dendrocygna arcuata | Anatidae |
| Magpie Goose | B | Anseranus semipalmata | Anatidae |
| Green Pygmy-Goose | B | Nettapus pulchellus | Anatidae |
| Australasian Darter | TM | Anhinga novaehollandiae | Anhingidae |
| Uniform Swiftlet | R | Aerodramus vanikorensis | Apodidae |
| White-throated Needletail | TM | Hirundapus caudacutus | Apodidae |
| Papuan Spine-tailed Swift | B | Mearnsia novaeguineae | Apodidae |
| Pacific Swift | TM | Apus pacificus | Apodidae |
| Little Egret | B | Egretta garzetta | Ardeidae |
| Cattle Egret | NB | Bubulcus ibis | Ardeidae |
| Pied Heron | B | Egretta picata | Ardeidae |
| Intermediate Egret | B | Mesophoyx intermedia | Ardeidae |
| Great Egret | B | Ardea alba | Ardeidae |
| Rufous Night-heron | B | Nycticorax caledonicus | Ardeidae |
| Great-billed Heron | B | Ardea sumatrana | Ardeidae |
| Black Bittern | B | Ixobrychus flavicollis | Ardeidae |
| Striated Heron | B | Butorides striata | Ardeidae |
| White-breasted Woodswallow | B | Artamus leucorynchus | Artamidae |
| Blyth’s Hornbill | B | Aceros plicatus | Bucerotidae |
| Black-faced Cuckoo-shrike | B | Coracina novaehollandiae | Campephagidae |
| White-bellied Cuckoo-shrike | TM | Coracina papuensis | Campephagidae |
| Cicadabird | B | Coracina tenuirostris | Campephagidae |
| Southern Cassowary | R | Casuarius casuarius | Cassuariidae |
| Masked Lapwing | B | Vanellus miles | Charadriidae |
| Brown Cuckoo-dove | B | Macropygia amboinensis | Columbidae |
| Orange-bellied Fruit-Dove | B | Ptilinopus iozonus | Columbidae |
| Southern Crowned-Pigeon | B | Goura scheepmakeri | Columbidae |
| Superb Fruit-dove | B | Ptilinopus superbus | Columbidae |
| Coroneted Fruit-Dove | B | Ptilinopus coronulatus | Columbidae |
| Bar-shouldered Dove | B | Geopelia humeralis | Columbidae |
| Zoe Imperial Pigeon | B | Ducula zoeae | Columbidae |
| Pied Imperial-Pigeon | B | Ducula bicolor | Columbidae |
| Wompoo Fruit-Dove | R | Ptilinopus magnificus | Columbidae |
| Pinon Imperial Pigeon | B | Ducula pinon | Columbidae |
| Beautiful Fruit-Dove | B | Ptilinopus pulchellus | Columbidae |
| Stephan's Ground-Dove | B | Chalcophaps stephani | Columbidae |
| Collared Imperial Pigeon | B | Ducula mullerii | Columbidae |
| Pink-spotted Fruit-Dove | B | Ptilinopus perlatus | Columbidae |
| Emerald Ground-Dove | B | Chalcophaps indica | Columbidae |
| Papuan Mountain Pigeon | B | Gymnophaps albertisii | Columbidae |
| Orange-fronted Fruit-Dove | B | Ptilinopus aurantiifrons | Columbidae |
| Purple-tailed Imperial Pigeon | B | Ducula rufigaster | Columbidae |
| Dollarbird | Eurystomus orientalis | Coraciidae | |
| Grey Crow | R | Corvus tristis | Corvidae |
| Torresian Crow | B | Corvus orru | Corvidae |
| Hooded Butcherbird | B | Cracticus cassicus | Cracticidae |
| Black Butcherbird | B | Cracticus quoyi | Cracticidae |
| Lowland Peltops | TM | Peltops blainvillii | Cracticidae |
| Pheasant Coucal | B | Centropus phasianinus | Cuculidae |
| Brush Cuckoo | B | Cacomantis variolosus | Cuculidae |
| Malay Bronze-cuckoo | R | Chrysococcyx minutillus | Cuculidae |
| Channel-billed Cuckoo | B | Scythrops novaehollandiae | Cuculidae |
| Greater Black Coucal | NB | Centropus menbeki | Cuculidae |
| Asian Koel | B | Eudynamys scolopaceus | Cuculidae |
| Red-capped Flowerpecker | B | Dicaeum geelvinkianum | Dicaeidae |
| Spangled Drongo | B | Dicrurus bracteatus | Dricruridae |
| Olive Flycatcher | B | Microeca flavovirenscens | Eopsaltriidae |
| Black-sided Robin | B | Poecilodryas hypoleuca | Eopsaltriidae |
| Streak-headed Mannikin | R | Lonchura tristissima | Estrildidae |
| Black Mannikin | B | Lonchura stygia | Estrildidae |
| Pacific Swallow | R | Hirundo tahitica | Hirundinidae |
| Whiskered Tern | B | Chlidonias hybrida | Laridae |
| White-winged Tern | TM | Chlidonias leucopterus | Laridae |
| Wallace's Fairy Wren | B | Sipodotus wallacii | Maluridae |
| White-shouldered Fairy-wren | R | Malurus alboscapulatus | Maluridae |
| Campbell's Fairy-wren | TM | Chenorhamphus (Malurus) campbelli | Maluridae |
| Emperor Fairy Wren | B | Malurus cyanocephalus | Maluridae |
| Orange-footed Scrubfowl | B | Megapodius reinwardt | Megapodiidae |
| Black-billed Brush-turkey | B | Talegalla fuscirostris | Megapodiidae |
| Pygmy Longbill | B | Toxorhamphus pymaeum | Melanocharitidae |
| Dwarf Longbill | B | Toxorhamphus iliolophis | Melanocharitidae |
| Black Berrypecker | B | Melanocharis nigra | Melanocharitidae |
| Mimic Meliphaga | R | Meliphaga analoga | Meliphagidae |
| Dusky Myzomela | B | Myzomela obscura | Meliphagidae |
| Long-billed Honeyeater | B | Melilestes megarhynchus | Meliphagidae |
| Meyer's Friarbird | R | Philemon meyeri | Meliphagidae |
| Green-backed Honeyeater | B | Glycichaera fallax | Meliphagidae |
| Helmeted Friarbird | Philemon buceroides | Meliphagidae | |
| Graceful Meliphaga | B | Meliphaga gracilis | Meliphagidae |
| Puff-backed Meliphaga | R | Meliphaga aruensis | Meliphagidae |
| Spotted Honeyeater | B | Xanthotis polygrammus | Meliphagidae |
| Brown-backed Honeyeater | B | Ramsayornis modestus | Meliphagidae |
| Twany-breasted Honeyeater | B | Xanthotis flaviventer | Meliphagidae |
| Rufous-banded Honeyeater | R | Conopophila albogularis | Meliphagidae |
| Streak-headed Honeyeater | R | Pycnopygius stictocephalus | Meliphagidae |
| Rainbow Bee-eater | TM | Merops ornatus | Meropidae |
| Satin Flycatcher | TM | Myiagra cyanoleuca | Myiagridae |
| Black Faced Monarch | B | Monarcha melanopsis | Myiagridae |
| Spot-winged Monarch | B | Symopsiachrus guttula | Myiagridae |
| Frilled Monarch | B | Arses telescopthalmus | Myiagridae |
| Shining Flycatcher | B | Myiagra alecto | Myiagridae |
| Yellow-breasted Boatbill | B | Machaerirhynchus flaviventer | Myiagridae |
| Golden Monarch | B | Carteronis chrysomela | Myiagridae |
| Olive-backed Sunbird | B | Cinnyris jugularis | Nectariniidae |
| Black Sunbird | B | Leptocoma sericea | Nectariniidae |
| Brown Oriole | B | Oriolus szalayi | Oriolidae |
| Blue Jewel-Babbler | R | Ptilorrhoa caerulescens | Orthonychidae |
| Grey Shrike-thrush | B | Colluricincla harmonica | Pachycephalidae |
| Rusty Pitohui | B | Pitohui ferrugineus | Pachycephalidae |
| Little Shrike-thrush | B | Colluricincla megarhyncha | Pachycephalidae |
| Variable Pitohui | B | Pitohui kirhocephalus | Pachycephalidae |
| Varied Triller | R | Lalage leucomela | Pachycephalidae |
| Hooded Pitohui | B | Pitohui dichrous | Pachycephalidae |
| Grey Whistler | R | Pachycephala simplex | Pachycephalidae |
| Glossy-mantled Manucode | B | Manucodia atra | Paradisaeidae |
| Trumpet Manucode | B | Manucodia keraudrenii | Paradisaeidae |
| Raggiana Bird of Paradise | R | Paradisaea raggiana | Paradisaeidae |
| King Bird of Paradise | Cicinnurus regius | Paradisaeidae | |
| Magnificent Riflebird | B | Ptiloris magnificus | Paradisaeidae |
| Eurasian Tree Sparrow | V | Passer montanus | Passeridae |
| Australian Pelican | TM | Pelecanus conspicillatus | Pelecanidae |
| Little Pied Cormorant | R | Phalacrocorax melanoleucos | Phalacrocoracidae |
| Little Black Cormorant | B | Phalacrocorax sulcirostris | Phalacrocoracidae |
| Blue-brested Pitta | B | Pitta erythrogaster | Pittidae |
| Hooded Pitta | B | Pitta sordida | Pittidae |
| Papuan Frogmouth | B | Podargus papuensis | Podargidae |
| Rufous Babbler | R | Pomatostomus isidorei | Pomatostomatidae |
| Western Black-capped Lory | R | Lorius lory | Psittacidae |
| Sulphur-crested Cockatoo | B | Cacatua galerita | Psittacidae |
| Rainbow Lorikeet | B | Trichoglossus haematodus | Psittacidae |
| Palm Cockatoo | B | Probosciger aterrimus | Psittacidae |
| Yellow-streaked Lory | TM | Chalcopsitta sintillata | Psittacidae |
| Red-flanked Lorikeet | B | Charmosyna placentis | Psittacidae |
| Orange-breasted Fig-parrot | R | Cyclopsitta gulielmitertii | Psittacidae |
| Red-cheeked Parrot | R | Geoffroyus geoffroyi | Psittacidae |
| Yellow-capped Pygmy Parrot | B | Micropsitta keiensis | Psittacidae |
| Eclectus Parrot | R | Eclectus roratus | Psittacidae |
| Spotted Catbird | B | Ailuroedus melanotis | Ptilonorhynchidae |
| Fawn-breasted Bowerbird | B | Chlamydera cerviniventris | Ptilonorhynchidae |
| New Guinea Flightless Rail | B | Megacrex inepta | Rallidae |
| White-bellied Thicket Fantail | TM | Rhipidura leucothorax | Rhipiduridae |
| Chestnut-bellied Fantail | B | Rhipidura hyperythra | Rhipiduridae |
| Sooty Thicket Fantail | B | Rhipidura threnothorax | Rhipiduridae |
| Rufous Fantail | R | Rhipidura rufifrons | Rhipiduridae |
| Willie Wagtail | B | Rhipidura leucophrys | Rhipiduridae |
| Black Thicket-fantail | B | Rhipidura maculipectus | Rhipiduridae |
| Northern Fantail | B | Rhipidura rufiventris | Rhipiduridae |
| Barking Owl | B | Ninox connivens | Strigidae |
| Metallic Starling | B | Aplonis metallica | Sturnidae |
| Singing Starling | B | Aplonis cantoroides | Sturnidae |
| Yellow-faced Myna | B | Mino dumontii | Sturnidae |
| Golden-headed Cisticola | B | Cisticola exilis | Sylviidae |
| Glossy Ibis | R | Plegadis falcinellus | Threskiornithidae |
| Australian Ibis | TM | Threskiornis molluca | Threskiornithidae |
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