Site Report: Makassar Airport

Streaked Weaver (Ploceus manyar)
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Streaked Weaver (Ploceus manyar)
Airport and wetlands.
Visits
- 2016-02-26: I arrived a bit early to the airport which was one of the few places in Makassar that I saw with any green space. After checking in my bag, I went on a hike around a reservoir that collected water from some stinky sewage canals. I was about half way around the reservoir, and of course it started raining cats and dogs. By the time I returned to the airport, I was completely soaked. I was still soaked when the plane took off an hour late. The safety announcements on the plane included a warning that "Drugs are illegal with the maximum penalty being death"!
Species Seen
Kingdom: Animals (9 records)
Phylum: Chordates
(9 records)
Class: Birds
(9 records)
- Order: Kingfishers, Bee-eaters, Motmots (2 records)
- Order: Pelicans (2 records)
- Order: Perching Birds
(5 records)
- Family: Old World Sparrows
- Eurasian Tree Sparrow (Passer montanus)
- Streaked Weaver (Ploceus manyar)
- Family: Sunbirds
- Sahul Sunbird (Cinnyris frenatus)
- Family: White-eyes
- Lemon-bellied White-eye (Zosterops chloris)
- Family: Woodswallows, Bellmagpies and Allies
- White-breasted Woodswallow (Artamus leucorynchus)