Guadalacanal offers excellent opportunities for hikers and bird watchers. Hikers can see turtles, flying foxes, and many birds, including white-eyes, rails, honeyeaters, fantails, coucal (the world's largest cuckoo), thrushes, and megapodes (birds that lays eggs in volcanic sands and whose...
Magpie-larks are one of the 200-odd species of bird around the world that are known to sing in duet; each partner producing about one note a second, but a half-second apart, so that humans find it difficult to tell that two birds are singing, not one. ...