Bird's Head Peninsula

The Bird's Head Peninsula (Indonesian: Kepala Burung, Dutch: Vogelkop, meaning Bird's Head in Indonesian and Dutch) or Doberai Peninsula (Semenanjung Doberai) is a large peninsula that makes up the northwest portion of the island of New Guinea, comprising the Indonesian provinces of Southwest Papua and West Papua.

It is often referred to as The Vogelkop, and is so named because its shape looks like a bird's head on the island of New Guinea.

The mountains of the peninsula above 1000 meters elevation constitute the Vogelkop montane rain forests ecoregion.

[2] Road construction, illegal logging, commercial agricultural expansion and ranching potentially threaten the integrity of the ecoregion.

[2] The south-eastern coast of the Bird's Head Peninsula forms part of the Teluk Cenderawasih National Park.

Villagers practise subsistence farming by shifting cultivation of copra, rice, maize and peanuts, as well as hunting.

Papuan Malay is the local lingua franca spoken in the Bird's Head Peninsula.

[4] The Austronesian languages spoken on the Bird's Head Peninsula mostly belong to the South Halmahera–West New Guinea (SHWNG) group.

The king bird-of-paradise is one of over 300 bird species on the peninsula.