Find your spirit of adventure as you experience the magnificent beauty of a remote unspoilt tropical Fijian Island. Plunging volcanic rainforest slopes meet azure coral lagoons and the Great Astrolabe Barrier Reef, a rare untouched slice of nature unfolds before your eyes.Continue Reading …
Prosopeia splendens
The Kadavu parrot is the most distinctive of Fiji’s colourful Shining Parrots. It is a large parrot, similar in size to Fiji’s other two endemic Shining Parrots, measuring up to 45 cm from the tip of its beak to the tip of its tail.Continue Reading …
Xanthotis provocator
Our focus at Matava is eco-tourism. We promote the natural environment, both marine and terrestrial and have adopted programmes to avoid damaging our environment. These include conservation awareness, and waste management (recycling) programmes at the resort and with local villages.
Dining at Matava involves an imaginative blend of local and international cuisine. meals are served in our restuarant “The Terrace” on the front of our Main Bure, one of Fiji’s largest traditional structures where guests gather from around the world for papaya salad, mango chicken, coconut curries and sashimi while sharing conversation and friendship. Continue Reading …
The Fiji Petrel (Pseudobulweria macgillivrayi), also known as MacGillivray’s Petrel is a small, all black-brown petrel with a short neck and stout black bill giving it a chunky, thickset appearance.Continue Reading …
FIJI, what a treat! 27 species are found nowhere else in the world (endemic), such as the fabulous Golden and Orange Doves, three species of Shining-Parrots , fantails and the widespread island specific Collared Lory. All in a week!
from F$2,015 per person
Welcome to Fiji Bird Watching

Welcome to Fiji Bird Watching, our website dedicated to the birds and avifauna of the Fiji Islands.
27 species are found nowhere else in the world (endemic), such as the fabulous Golden and Orange Doves (Bune or Bunako), three species of Shining-Parrots (Kaka), and the widespread Collared Lory (Kula).
Birding on Kadavu

Natural forests of varying quality today cover c.44% of the land area of Fiji with a further 7% covered by softwood and hardwood plantations (D. Watling in litt. 1995). On most islands nearly all accessible forest has either been logged or is committed to logging concessions (A. Lees in litt. 1993), and Taveuni is the only island with extensive relatively undisturbed forest.Continue Reading …
Latest news from birding in Fiji

Matava Inducted into Tripadvisor Hall of Fame
Matava Resort today announced that it has been recognised as a TripAdvisor® Certificate of Excellence Hall of Fame winner. The Certificate of Excellence award celebrates excellence in hospitality and is given only to establishments that consistently achieve great traveller reviews on TripAdvisor. The ‘Hall of Fame’ was created to honour those businesses that have earned a Certificate of Excellence for five consecutive years.Continue Reading …

Matava Wins Fiji Excellence in Tourism Award
Matava Resort is proud to be announced as a winner at the AON Fiji Excellence in Tourism Awards in the category ‘Sustainability’ as a result of our policies on sustainability and the environment. The 18th annual AON Fiji Excellence in Tourism Awards celebrates the outstanding performance of those who have made exceptional contributions to the Fiji tourism industry in 2014.Continue Reading …