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Birding Australia
Birding Tours As bird tours and travel are a style
of wildlife tour pretty much unto themselves, we thought we'd devote
a page or two just to bird tours, mainly for birders. This page is
for those among us who don't think it's strange to be looking the
other way , not at the Taj Mahal (at least for a while) because there's
a house crow across the road. Or consider that spending a few days
at a bird lodge where there's no TV, no nightlife (other than talking
birds or reading about them, and
Nature Travel Specialists does not
operate dedicated, list-at-all-costs birding tours, but we
We also recognize that many birders like to organize their own birding travel, so we have included lots of links to companies and accommodations in Australia that you can contact directly. If there's anything we can do for you along the way - there's lots of aspects of comfortable and successful nature travel other than just booking wildlife tours and hotels - we'd be happy to so. If not, that's fine too; please explore these links, contact the companies, and good birding. We won't mind, however, if you tell the people you're booking with where you found them.
We can
arrange and Australian bird and wildlife tour, an adaption of our
"Birding with your Partner" tour - see our tour from October
2009. Birding with Your Partner means that the tour is arranged
to allow for plenty of birding, with top flight
bird guides, but also time t
If you're visiting Cairns independently, the Tropical Bird Club has regular outings and also gets together on the Esplanade; you are welcome to join in either.
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only thing to do is to get up early and look at both beautiful and
little brown birds, seems a good thing. That's not to say that birds
aren't an important component of all of our nature tours, but if you're
traveling to Australia and/or New Zealand just to bird, this is your
page. (For this reason the page, and images, will take a bit longer
to download - we didn't compress them as much, so they are clearer).
do know which dedicated bird tours may suit you best, and we know
Australia and its birds pretty well (our Director, Andrew Haffenden,
has personally seen over two-thirds of them, and conducted field research
on magpie geese, brolgas and sarus cranes for many years. That's him
on the right with Dyak headman on the Upper Mahakam River, Borneo,
the day after having two groups of 
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look 
around
with your non-birding partner, and activities arranged for the partner
while you're out chasing down the lifers. This particular tour is
more heavily birdy, with less alternative activites available, but
will still suit a partner who is interested in nature - birds, other
wildlife, plants etc - but wouldn't normally go on, or is usually
a bit cranky on, the normal "up at 4.30am, to bed late after
owling and up at 5 again and seeing nothing but birds all day every
day" bird tours. The sort of tours that don't visit the Taj Mahal
because it wastes birding time. This isn't one of those, but still
is looking at 350+ bird species, and our guides will always be available
for a very early look around, and a late bit of owling on nights there
aren't any activities. We visit Cairns and the Tablelands, Australia's
best birding region, advise close to a week in the top of the Northern
Territory to do ido a pelagic trip that usually gets 30+ species.
Tasmania, and/or a non-bird look at Ayers Rock, are also recommended,
as is Victoria's mallee country. Click 
If
you're spending time in the Sydney area, 
Capertree Valley. In addition to her guide services there's good information
on her website about birding the area generally. The