Bird Watching Tours in Australia

Australia boasts of nearly eight hundred species of birds of diverse types. The birds in Australia range from tiny weebill to huge Emu. Government in Australia is very serious about conserving the birds in the country. In this regard, Birds Australia is doing a commendable job by bringing people close who care for birds.

Birds Australia is not merely a research organization rather it is loudly advocating the need to protect the birds in the country. Different kinds of birds can be seen in Australia which are listed below.

1. Old endemics: Cassowaries, emus, large parrot.
2. Seabirds : Albatross, gulls, petrels, sulids, cormorants, terns
3. Eurasian colonists : Swallows, plovers, thrushes, , larks, raptors, sunbirds
4. Corvid radiation : robins, magpies, wrens, the huge honeyeater family, thornbills, lyrebirds, pardalotes, lyrebirds, bowerbirds
5. Migratory shorebirds: Charadriidae, waders.
6. Recent introduction : Goldfinch, Greenfinch, fauna, Common Starling, Blackbird, House and Tree Sparrows, Common Myna

Best Bird Watching Tours in Australia

Australia is a popular bird watching place. Few best bird watching tours are listed below.

Fine Feather Tours

This tour is operated by Del Richards who has more than forty years of experience of birding in all the states in Australia. One of its bird watching tour package in Australia is given below.

Full Day Bird Safari

It covers around 90 species of birds. This tour is designed for the ornithologists and the amateurs alike. The highlights of the tour are as follows.

1. It operates three days a week – Monday, Wednesday and Friday.
2. It starts from Mossman or Port Douglas at 7.30 am and returns to the same place at 5.00 pm.
3. It includes refreshments and lunch also.
4. The tour costs A$245 for one person.
5. Binoculars, repellents and reference books are also available in the tour
6. It is recommended that visitors should bring hat and comfortable footwear
7. Master Card and Visa Card are accepted

Birdwatching Aficionados

It offers customized bird watching tours in Australia and tours are conducted exclusively on request. Tours are conducted for four individuals. This tour includes

1. Perth – Albany in the west corner of Western Australia
2. Kimberley
3. Iron Range National Park and the north-east of Queensland
4. Kakadu National Park and Darwin
5. Birdsville, Ayer’s Rock, and Strzelecki
6. Tasmania, Sydney and Melbourne in the South East Australia

Australasian Ornithological Services Pty Ltd

Australian Ornithological Services Pty Ltd, formed 15 years ago, offers unique bird watching tours to the visitors. The package mainly includes nocturnal birds and the difficult skulkers. (formerly Inland Bird Tours) started in Deniliquin in the southern Riverina area of N.S.W. 15 years ago. The tours conducted by the Australian Ornithological Services Pty Ltd, are specifically targets the serious bird watchers. The address and contact details of this organization is given below.

Australian Ornithological Services P/L
Patricia Maher
P.O. Box 385
South Yarra Victoria 3141
phone/fax: +61 3 98204223
mobile 0417310200
Email: enquiries@philipmaher.com
Website: http://www.philipmaher.com/

Birding Tours Australia

The bird watching tours conducted by Birding Tours Australia, mainly covers Sydney, the Hunter Valley, New South Wells and Newcastle. The main aim of all the tours conducted by Birding Tours Australia is help to visitors watch as many species of birds as possible.

Sicklebill Safaris

This agency conducts wildlife as well as bird watching tours across the country. Customized and individual tours are also offered by Sicklebill Safaris. The areas mainly covered by Sicklebill Safaris are the Northern Territory, Western Australia, Tasmania, Eastern Seaboard and the mallee and desert areas of South Australia.

Last updated on 10/11/2010