Laiwangi Wanggameti National Park is located on the island of Sumba in Indonesia.

All forests types that exist on this island can be found in this national park.

[1] Historical records of bird surveys on Sumba are grouped into two periods based on Indonesian independence events.

The naming of the Cacatua sulphurea citrinocristata by Fraser in 1844 and Larius roratus cornelia by Bonaparte in 1853, shows that at least two of the journal's authors had studied the Sumbanese bird a century before independence.

It was only in 1979, Joh MacKinnon resumed bird surveys on Sumba, with the results in a list of species that had been systematically documented.