BIRDWATCHING LINKS
North Queensland Tours
- North Queensland Accommodation
A very useful directory to bird-orientated accommodations, tour
operators, guides,
pelagic trips, bird clubs and other reference information.
Other North Queensland Birdwatching Tours
* Chris Dahlberg's Birdwatching River Tours
Chris Dahlberg is a local birdwatching enthusiast who has been conducting daily dawn river Birdwatching Cruises on the Daintree River since 1992. Chris averages 50 bird species sightings in winter and 40 in summer. Highly recommended!* Fine Feather Tours
Del and Pat Richards are based in Mossman, North Queensland, between Port Douglas and the Daintree River. Their tours, which operate daily, visit up to eight different habitats.* Wait-a-While Environmental Tours/Cairns
Wait-a-while Tours specializes in afternoon-evening tours that combine rainforest interpretive walks with birdwatching and wildlife viewing in the Wet Tropics World Heritage area.
North Queensland Bird-orientated Accommodation
* Kingfisher Park Birdwatchers Lodge
Offers self-contained units and bunkhouse accommodation in a rainforest setting close to Mt Lewis, which is famous for highland rainforest birds like Golden Bowerbirds and Blue-faced Finches. The park itself also offers lots of birds, including Red-necked Crake and in summer, Buff-breasted Paradise Kingfishers. Email: sootyowl@bigpond.com* Atherton Tablelands Holiday Guide - Holiday and Information Network
* Red Mill House - Daintree Village
Long established Daintree birdwatching accommodation. Red Mill House in Daintree Village is owned and operated by two enthusiastic birdwatchers with good local birding knowledge. Deluxe, air-conditioned accommodation renowned for it’s cooked breakfasts and excellent service. Easy access to Daintree River and a short drive to the Daintree National Park. Excellent birdwatching opportunities, either escorted or independent, in a well known birding area.* Fur 'n' Feathers Rainforest Tree Houses
A private wildlife sanctuary of 100 acres of ancient rainforest. With a conservation status of Endangered, this Complex mesophyll vine forest - type 1B with 2 kms of river frontage, is an established habitat for numerous rare and threatened species including the Cassowary and Lumholtz's Tree Kangaroo, Green Ringtail Possum. Only 90 minutes from Cairns, on the Atherton Tablelands.
Accommodation is provided in self-contained luxury pole houses with double spas, overlooking the Ithaca River, and one can enjoy close encounters with the likes of Victoria's Rifle Birds, Macleay's Honeyeater, King Parrots, Emerald Doves, then of course look a bit deeper and see Tooth-billed Bowerbird, Atherton Scrubwren and Lesser Sooty Owl, to name but a few. Walking trails and Fauna list compliment the experience.
A comfortable luxury vehicle is available for tours and transfers. Professionally guided spotlighting tours, or free platypus spotting tours are available. Assisted Wheelchair access in one Rainforest Cottage. Advanced Ecotourism Accreditation.
Hosts: Sandra & Harry Walker
Address: Hogan Rd, Tarzali (near Malanda) Qld
Phone: 61 7 4096 5364
Fax: 61 7 4096 5380
Email: stay@rainforesttreehouses.com.au
Web: http://www.rainforesttreehouses.com.au
Other Australian Birdwatching Related Sites
* Graeme Chapman's Web site, one of Australia's best bird photographers!
* John Young Wildlife Enterprises
* Tony Palliser's Pelagic Birding Homepage
* Little Desert Nature Lodge & Tours near Nhill, Vic
* David Stewart's Nature Sound Wildlife CDs and Cassettes
David Stewart has a large collection of Australian Wildlife sounds, mainly calls of birds and frogs. His commercial productions include a CD of Subtropical Rainforest sounds with animals indexed, 2 CDs of frog calls, 3 cassettes of bird calls and 3 cassettes of frog calls.
He can also provide calls of many other Australian birds, frogs and mammals and stereo atmospheres on request.
http://www.naturesound.com.au/
email address: davidstewart@naturesound.com.au* Lloyd Nielsen’s Birding Australia
Lloyd Nielsen offers his unique directories Birding Australia, plus carefully selected field guides, Daintree ~ Jewel of Tropical North Queensland, bird call CDs, greeting cards and other products featuring Australian birds.* Australian Birding (Birding-Aus)
International Nature and Birdwatching Tours* Where to find birding tours, trips, guides and lodging in Australia, New Zealand & Oceania
* Southern Oceans Seabird Study Association (SOSSA)
- Alan has been leading bird groups and individuals around Australia and the region for over 30 years now. His experience in planning and organising trips, finding the birds and other critters is well grounded. Alan has led well over 100 trips all around this land. He founded the now famous deep water pelagics off Wollongong and Sydney and has been on at least 800 pelagic excursions - enough to not bother with medication! From a birding perspective he has found a number of firsts for the region too and has seen over 732 birds in Australia alone.Alan leads many trips of shorter duration too ranging from half days to 4 weeks plus. Whatever your length he will endeavour to work out a trip so that client wishes are fulfilled.* Birding South West - Peter Taylor runs day tours from Pemberton, Manjimup & Bridgetown as well as fully accommodated tours throughout the South West of Australia.
* Charnigup Farm Bed & Breakfast, Albany (Western Australia)
International Birdwatching
Related Sites
die deutsche Plattform fur Birder und Ornithologen - mindestens tagesaktuell...* Handbook of the Birds of the World
* ABA (American Birding Association)
* Birdnet.de -
* Vogelruf (in German / in Deutsch)
* birding.com -
Birds & bird related topics of North America* Boute Expeditions - Birdwatching, Natural History Tours & Photo Safaris
* Aviscience - a scientific source for birders and ornithologists around the globe
* Travellingbirder.com - Internet portal to bird travel and birding trip reports
* Guided Birdwatching Index to find all the birding guides in the world, professional or amateur.
Kirrama Wildlife Tours
Phone: (07) 4065 5181
International Phone: 61 7 40655 181
email: info@kirrama.com.au
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