Passage Through Melanesia: Solomon Islands and Vanuatu Cairns, Australia to Lautoka, Fiji
October 01 – October 13, 2024
Captain Erwan Le Rouzic
Discovery Leader Boris Wise
1 – Cairns, Australia (October 1)
2 – Day at sea (October 2)
3 – Day at sea (October 3)
4 – Guadalcanal Island, Solomon Islands (October 4)
5 – Santa Ana Island (October 5)
6 – Nendo Island (October 6)
7 – Day at sea (October 7)
8 – Espiritu Santo Island, Vanuatu (October 8)
9 – Ambrym Island (October 9)
10 – Efate Island (October 10)
11 – Tanna Island (October 11)
12 – Day at sea (October 12)
13 – Lautoka, Fiji (October 13)
Critter Club – Wildlife Checklist
BIRDS
Mackinlay's Cuckoo-Dove Macropygia mackinlayi
Pacific Emerald Dove Chalcophaps longirostris
Stephan's Dove Chalcophaps stephani
Tanna Fruit-Dove Ptilinopus tannensis
Red-bellied Fruit-Dove Ptilinopus greyi
Pacific Imperial-Pigeon Ducula pacifica
Island Imperial-Pigeon Ducula pistrinaria
Satin Swiftlet Collocalia uropygialis
White-rumped Swiftlet Aerodramus spodiopygius
UniformSwiftlet Aerodramus vanikorensis
White Tern Gygis alba
Brown Noddy Anous stolidus
Black Noddy Anous minutus
Sooty Tern Onychoprion fuscatus
Bridled Tern Onychoprion anaethetus
Common Tern Sterna hirundo
White-tailed Tropicbird Phaethon lepturus
Wedge-tailed Shearwater Ardenna pacifica
Lesser Frigatebird Fregata ariel
Red-footed Booby Sula sula
Brown Booby Sula leucogaster
Masked Booby Sula dactylatra
Pacific Reef-Heron Egretta sacra
Osprey Pandion haliaetus
Swamp Harrier Circus approximans
Brown Goshawk Accipiter fasciatus
Pied Goshawk Accipiter albogularis
Brahminy Kite Haliastur indus
Pacific Kingfisher Todiramphus sacer
Coconut Lorikeet Trichoglossus haematodus
Cardinal Myzomela Myzomela cardinalis
Sooty Myzomela Myzomela tristrami
Dark-brown Honeyeater Lichmera incana
South Melanesian Cuckooshrike Coracina caledonica
Long-tailed Triller Lalage leucopyga
Vanuatu Whistler Pachycephala chlorura
White-breasted Woodswallow Artamus leucorynchus
Willie-wagtail Rhipidura leucophrys
Santa Cruz Fantail Rhipidura melaenolaema
Critter Club – Wildlife Checklist
BIRDS
Solomons Rufous Fantail Rhipidura rufofronta
Vanuatu Streaked Fantail Rhipidura spilodera
Gray Fantail Rhipidura albiscapa
Chestnut-bellied Monarch Monarcha castaneiventris
White-collared Monarch Symposiachrus vidua
Melanesian Flycatcher Myiagra caledonica
Pacific Swallow Hirundo tahitica
Yellow-fronted White-eye Zosterops flavifrons
Sanford's White-eye Zosterops lacertosus
Metallic Starling Aplonis metallica
Singing Starling Aplonis cantoroides
Common Myna Acridotheres tristis
House Sparrow Passer domesticus
Red Junglefowl Gallus gallus
MARINE LIFE
Green sea turtle Chelonia mydas
Hawksbill turtle Eretmochelys imbricata
TERRESTRIAL LIFE
Toad Bufo sp
Flying fox Pteropus sp
