Birds keeping, especially songbirds, has been considered as one of the major drivers that lead to species extinction in Indonesia. The demand for songbirds either for songbird’s competition or to be enjoyed at home is considerably high, especially in Java. As the native Javan population has been depleted due to habitat conversion and excessive trapping, the supply of songbirds is provided by other islands in Indonesia such as Sumatera and Kalimantan. We conducted long term monitoring of songbird’s trade on Jambi. Data on bird’s trade was obtained by examining the transaction records from wholesalers from the period of 2016 – 2020. The results showed that there were shifting in species target especially after 2018 due to implementation of new regulation on protected species. However, the total number remains high. The trade comparison for the same period between trade records in 2016 and 2020 demonstrated the reduction in the number of species from around 32 species to 25 species, however, the total volume of traded birds is higher in 2020 which is 20.600 compare to 7.198 during the first sixth months. Considering the pandemic situation, the songbirds trade activities is seemingly not affected especially for the distribution chain from hunter to wholesalers.

New Guinea, the world’s largest tropical island, supports the planet’s richest insular avifauna. Large areas of New Guinea remain poorly surveyed, however, in part due to the island’s challenging terrain. In hard-to-access areas, like many mountainous parts of New Guinea, automated surveying tools, like camera traps, may be especially helpful to address the survey deficit. Here we present the results of a camera-trap survey of the avifauna of the Cyclops Mountains, a range in New Guinea’s western, Indonesian provinces (Indonesian Papua). To our knowledge, our results represent only the second published camera-trap survey of birds from Indonesian Papua. We deployed 73 camera traps along an elevation gradient (143–1963 m) of the Cyclops Mountains for 11,869 camera-trap nights, recording 22 bird species from 1696 independent detections. Our species list is, to our knowledge, the first to include observations from the upper northern slopes of the Cyclops Mountains. It documents the first record of Masked Bowerbird (Sericulus aureus) in the range and provides photographic rediscoveries of two ‘lost’ species: Mayr’s Honeyeater (Ptiloprora mayri) and Mayr’s Forest Rail (Rallicula mayri). We also report substantial elevation range extensions for several species, including numerous records of Northern Cassowary (Casuarius unappendiculatus) over 1000 m above its historically known elevation ceiling. These findings provide new insights into species distributions and ecological flexibility in New Guinea’s montane systems, highlighting the potential for previously undocumented biodiversity in under-surveyed regions. Although camera traps detected fewer species than traditional ornithological methods, they were effective in documenting several elusive, ground-dwelling bird species, highlighting their value as a complementary tool for ornithological research in challenging terrain like New Guinea. Finally, we use our data to publish an updated bird species checklist for the Cyclops Mountains.