This expedition will be extremely strenuous and requires three full days of off-trail hiking to reach our camp on the upper slopes of Mount Popomanaseu, behind Honiara. We will have a team of machete-wielding porters, but the going will still be tough. The rewards, however, are great, with avian specialties here having only been seen by a very small handful of mostly historical birders! The top bird is, of course, the near-mythical Moustached Kingfisher, but we will also be wanting the lovely Hooded Whistler, Guadalcanal Honeyeater, Guadalcanal Fantail, Guadalcanal Thrush, Guadalcanal Thicketbird, and Guadalcanal White-eye, plus chances for Meek’s Lorikeet, Pale Mountain Pigeon, and Solomons Island-Thrush.