Find your spirit of adventure as you experience the magnificent beauty of a remote unspoilt tropical Fijian Island. Plunging volcanic rainforest slopes meet azure coral lagoons and the Great Astrolabe Barrier Reef, a rare untouched slice of nature unfolds before your eyes.Continue Reading …
Prosopeia splendens
The Kadavu parrot is the most distinctive of Fiji’s colourful Shining Parrots. It is a large parrot, similar in size to Fiji’s other two endemic Shining Parrots, measuring up to 45 cm from the tip of its beak to the tip of its tail.Continue Reading …
Xanthotis provocator
Our focus at Matava is eco-tourism. We promote the natural environment, both marine and terrestrial and have adopted programmes to avoid damaging our environment. These include conservation awareness, and waste management (recycling) programmes at the resort and with local villages.
Dining at Matava involves an imaginative blend of local and international cuisine. meals are served in our restuarant “The Terrace” on the front of our Main Bure, one of Fiji’s largest traditional structures where guests gather from around the world for papaya salad, mango chicken, coconut curries and sashimi while sharing conversation and friendship. Continue Reading …
The Fiji Petrel (Pseudobulweria macgillivrayi), also known as MacGillivray’s Petrel is a small, all black-brown petrel with a short neck and stout black bill giving it a chunky, thickset appearance.Continue Reading …
FIJI, what a treat! 27 species are found nowhere else in the world (endemic), such as the fabulous Golden and Orange Doves, three species of Shining-Parrots , fantails and the widespread island specific Collared Lory. All in a week!
from F$2,225 per person
Welcome to Fiji Bird Watching

Welcome to Fiji Bird Watching, our website dedicated to the birds and avifauna of the Fiji Islands.
27 species are found nowhere else in the world (endemic), such as the fabulous Golden and Orange Doves (Bune or Bunako), three species of Shining-Parrots (Kaka), and the widespread Collared Lory (Kula).
Birding on Kadavu

Natural forests of varying quality today cover c.44% of the land area of Fiji with a further 7% covered by softwood and hardwood plantations (D. Watling in litt. 1995). On most islands nearly all accessible forest has either been logged or is committed to logging concessions (A. Lees in litt. 1993), and Taveuni is the only island with extensive relatively undisturbed forest.Continue Reading …
Latest news from birding in Fiji

Fiji Pelagic Trips – May – September 2012
While living in Fiji (May-September 2012), I did several “pelagic” trips.
These involved riding on scheduled ferry trips or on chartered fishing trips.
There is limited information (almost none) on pelagic birding in Fiji.
Thus, I have compiled the data I gathered to help someone trying to see pelagic species in Fiji.

South Pacific Tour – September 2011
The revamped tour was a little later this year and it seemed to make some things a bit easier, note how well we did with the rare Crow Honeyeater, and Kagu was as ever a standout. One first-year bird was rewarded with a nice juicy scorpion that our guide found, and this really is a fabulous bird to see, another down on Harlan’s famiy quest, too, as an added bonus to what is a quite unique bird. Cloven-feathered Dove was also truly memorable, and watching one give that strange, constipated hooting call was fantastic and this really is one of the world’s best pigeons.Continue Reading …









