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Tours and Guides for Birders Accommodation for Birders

Daintree Boatman Nature Tours H Red Mill House The 'Daintree Boatman', Murray Hunt, provides personalised small- Boutique birdwatchers B&B in the Daintree Village. Large gardens, decks Bird Trails group cruises at dawn and dusk, perfect for viewing and for relaxing including natural frog & turtle pond. Perfect for exploring TROPICAL photographing highly sought-after birds of the Daintree River. Daintree River & surrounds. Guided tours and packages available. Ph: 0417 651 929 www.daintreerivertours.com.au Ph: 07 4098 6233 www.redmillhouse.com.au QUEENSLAND B Daintree River Wild Watch I Thala Beach Nature Reserve Decades of experience providing small personalised tours on the A deluxe eco retreat & birdwatcher's paradise with over 195 bird species Daintree River. Excellent sunrise and sunset birdwatching and documented, Thala's guests enjoy complimentary guided nature walks photographic opportunities. 10 individual swivel seats for excellent surrounded by Wet Tropics Rainforest and Great Barrier Reef. viewing. Specialised photography tours available.. Ph: 07 4098 5700 www.thalabeach.com.au Ph: 0447 546 926 www.daintreeriverwildwatch.com.au J Sweetwater Lodge C Birdwatching Tropical Australia (Mossman) Two outstanding self-contained private lodges in Julatten set on 160 Doug Herrington (20 years local experience, SATOUR trained guide) acres bird-watcher's paradise. Habitats include rainforest, woodland, offers day and multiday birding and photographic tours of the Wet grassland and riparian. 5 minutes to Mt. Lewis National Park. Tropics and Cape York. Small groups. Variable itineraries. Private tours. Ph: 0427 773 060 www.sweetwaterlodge.com.au Ph: 0418 757 288 www.birdwatchingtropicalaustralia.com.au K Cassowary House Naturalists guest-house within World Heritage rainforest at Kuranda Great Northern Tours. (Cooktown) above Cairns. Ideal base for exploring coast and highlands. Cassowaries Great Northern Tours specialise in extended, small group and Riflebirds are frequent visitors. Expert guides are available. All the best birdwatching tours in Far North Queensland. Our fully Ph: 07 4093 7318 www.cassowary-house.com.au accommodated travel destinations include Cape York, Atherton Crater Lakes Rainforest Cottages birding sites, Tablelands, Gulf of Carpentaria and Queensland's North West. L (South side of Lake Eacham) Ph: 0411 348 120 www.greatnortherntours.com.au “Where the wildlife comes to you”. Self-contained cottages nestled in guides and rainforest. Easy walking distance to Lake Eacham. Victoria's Riflebirds Cassowary Tours E amongst the many visitors. Great location close to World Heritage places to stay Expert guides offer a wide range of bird and natural history day trips Rainforest. or fully accommodated tours around Tropical North Queensland and Ph: 07 4095 2322 www.craterlakes.com.au the Cape York Peninsula. Customised and photographic tours a speciality. Atherton Tablelands Birdwatchers' Cabin Ph: 07 4093 7318 www.cassowarytours.com.au M (Wondecla) Modern self-contained, well-appointed cabin, secluded in ecotone of Alan’s Wildlife Tours F tall sclerophyll and rainforest at 1000m elevation. Private walking Half to multiday private tours with a natural history generalist whose trails, creeks. Great wildlife diversity, species lists on website. passions are birds and nocturnal mammals. Knowledgeable and Ph: 07 4201 0993 personable, Alan can find those special birds at your pace. www.athertontablelandsbirdwatcherscabin.com.au Cairns Region Ph: 0408 953 786 www.alanswildlifetours.com.au Daintree, Cairns Highlands, Mission Beach G Seastar Cruises (Cairns Pier) Seastars express cruise arrives at Michaelmas Cay first before other boats arrive to disturb the nesting birds. It offers a circumnavigation of the island where 38 species of seabird have been observed. www.birdingtnq.com.au Ph: 07 4041 6218 www.seastarcruises.com.au Check the website for more information, Cover photos: Jun Matsui, Keith &, Lindsay Fisher, Phil Gregory www.birdingtnq.com.au sites, directions and bird lists.

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altitudes.

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Tours and Guides for Birders Accommodation for Birders

Daintree Boatman Nature Tours H Red Mill House The 'Daintree Boatman', Murray Hunt, provides personalised small- Boutique birdwatchers B&B in the Daintree Village. Large gardens, decks Bird Trails group cruises at dawn and dusk, perfect for viewing and for relaxing including natural frog & turtle pond. Perfect for exploring TROPICAL photographing highly sought-after birds of the Daintree River. Daintree River & surrounds. Guided tours and packages available. Ph: 0417 651 929 www.daintreerivertours.com.au Ph: 07 4098 6233 www.redmillhouse.com.au QUEENSLAND B Daintree River Wild Watch I Thala Beach Nature Reserve Decades of experience providing small personalised tours on the A deluxe eco retreat & birdwatcher's paradise with over 195 bird species Daintree River. Excellent sunrise and sunset birdwatching and documented, Thala's guests enjoy complimentary guided nature walks photographic opportunities. 10 individual swivel seats for excellent surrounded by Wet Tropics Rainforest and Great Barrier Reef. viewing. Specialised photography tours available.. Ph: 07 4098 5700 www.thalabeach.com.au Ph: 0447 546 926 www.daintreeriverwildwatch.com.au J Sweetwater Lodge C Birdwatching Tropical Australia (Mossman) Two outstanding self-contained private lodges in Julatten set on 160 Doug Herrington (20 years local experience, SATOUR trained guide) acres bird-watcher's paradise. Habitats include rainforest, woodland, offers day and multiday birding and photographic tours of the Wet grassland and riparian. 5 minutes to Mt. Lewis National Park. Tropics and Cape York. Small groups. Variable itineraries. Private tours. Ph: 0427 773 060 www.sweetwaterlodge.com.au Ph: 0418 757 288 www.birdwatchingtropicalaustralia.com.au K Cassowary House Naturalists guest-house within World Heritage rainforest at Kuranda Great Northern Tours. (Cooktown) above Cairns. Ideal base for exploring coast and highlands. Cassowaries Great Northern Tours specialise in extended, small group and Riflebirds are frequent visitors. Expert guides are available. All the best birdwatching tours in Far North Queensland. Our fully Ph: 07 4093 7318 www.cassowary-house.com.au accommodated travel destinations include Cape York, Atherton Crater Lakes Rainforest Cottages birding sites, Tablelands, Gulf of Carpentaria and Queensland's North West. L (South side of Lake Eacham) Ph: 0411 348 120 www.greatnortherntours.com.au “Where the wildlife comes to you”. Self-contained cottages nestled in guides and rainforest. Easy walking distance to Lake Eacham. Victoria's Riflebirds Cassowary Tours E amongst the many visitors. Great location close to World Heritage places to stay Expert guides offer a wide range of bird and natural history day trips Rainforest. or fully accommodated tours around Tropical North Queensland and Ph: 07 4095 2322 www.craterlakes.com.au the Cape York Peninsula. Customised and photographic tours a speciality. Atherton Tablelands Birdwatchers' Cabin Ph: 07 4093 7318 www.cassowarytours.com.au M (Wondecla) Modern self-contained, well-appointed cabin, secluded in ecotone of Alan’s Wildlife Tours F tall sclerophyll and rainforest at 1000m elevation. Private walking Half to multiday private tours with a natural history generalist whose trails, creeks. Great wildlife diversity, species lists on website. passions are birds and nocturnal mammals. Knowledgeable and Ph: 07 4201 0993 personable, Alan can find those special birds at your pace. www.athertontablelandsbirdwatcherscabin.com.au Cairns Region Ph: 0408 953 786 www.alanswildlifetours.com.au Daintree, Cairns Highlands, Mission Beach G Seastar Cruises (Cairns Pier) Seastars express cruise arrives at Michaelmas Cay first before other boats arrive to disturb the nesting birds. It offers a circumnavigation of the island where 38 species of seabird have been observed. www.birdingtnq.com.au Ph: 07 4041 6218 www.seastarcruises.com.au Check the website for more information, Cover photos: Jun Matsui, Keith &, Lindsay Fisher, Phil Gregory www.birdingtnq.com.au sites, directions and bird lists. Stone Curlew Trail – Cairns & Honeyeater Trail – Mt Lewis & Bustard Trail – Mt Carbine to Catbird Trail – Kuranda to Mareeba Riflebird Trail – Cairns Highlands northern beaches Julatten Mareeba

Beach Stone Curlew - Keith & Lindsay Fisher Bridled Honeyeater - Keith & Lindsay Fisher Spotted Catbird - Keith & Lindsay Fisher 1 Cairns Foreshore (Esplanade) 16 Mt. Lewis 23 Black Mountain Road – Kuranda Offers close-up viewing of many migratory The road winds up 10km to 950m where upland National Park waders (shorebirds), egrets, gulls and terns, rainforest species such as Golden Bowerbird, Rainforest habitat close to Kuranda, with a unsurpassed anywhere in the world. Main Chowchilla, Fernwren, Atherton Scrubwren and good chance of Cassowary, Red-necked Crake, Victoria’s Riflebird - Keith & Lindsay Fisher season for migratory waders is August-April. Blue-faced Parrot-Finch (Nov-April) are found. Wompoo Fruit-Dove, Superb Fruit-Dove, Australian Bustard - Keith & Lindsay Fisher 2 Centenary Lakes The road is gravel so check the conditions before Double-eyed Fig Parrot, Lovely Fairy-wren, four 27 Henrietta Creek - Woorooroonan you go. Parkland with fresh and saltwater lakes, lowland 19 Maryfarms species of monarchs, Yellow-breasted Boatbill, National Park swamp forest, melaleuca wetlands and 17 Abattoir Swamp Environmental Park East Mary and West Mary Road, Maryfarms Victoria's Riflebird and Spotted Catbird. Camping site and access area to walking tracks boardwalk provide varied habitat. Look for A bird hide overlooks the swamp. The provide a reliable location for Australian 24 Tinaroo Creek Road through low-mid level tropical rainforest (300- Little Kingfisher and Black Bittern. woodland area around the car park is often Bustard, other species recorded include, Squatter Driving the length of this road near Mareeba 600m). Many rainforest species recorded. 3 Flecker Botanic Gardens and Mt. productive and when the paperbark trees are Pigeon, Brown Goshawk, Red-tailed Black- gives a good chance of Squatter Pigeon, Pale- 28 Tully Gorge and Tully Falls flowering large numbers of lorikeets and Cockatoo, Galah, Red-winged Parrot, Pale- Whitfield Conservation Park headed Rosella, Yellow Honeyeater, Brown National Parks honeyeaters are attracted to the area. headed Rosella and Blue-winged Kookaburra. Tree-creeper, Great Bowerbird and possibly Gardens and walking tracks which ascend the Tully Falls Road traverses rainforest and wet Black-throated Finch. Whitfield Range through rainforest and eucalypt 18 Mowbray National Park 20 Mount Molloy sclerophyll forests before reaching woodland. Walking track through rainforest, which can turn Township is good for Red-winged Parrot, Pale- 25 Davies Creek National Park Koomboolomba Dam 34km south of up some of the more difficult to see rainforest headed Rosella, Great Bowerbird which are Ravenshoe. 4 Pioneer Cemetery – James Street Davies Creek flows over massive granite species. Has an isolated population of Chestnut- common, Blue-faced Honeyeater and Double- boulders surrounded by eucalypt forest. 29 Kaban area Cairns breasted Cuckoo. barred Finch. Other species in area include Excellent habitat for dry country birds. For the Dry sclerophyll forest and forestry plantations The best site to see Bush Stone-curlews. Square-tailed Kite and Little Eagle. fit and adventurous, a hike up into the hills providing habitat for dry country species such as 5 Jack Barnes Bicentennial Mangrove 21 Lake Mitchell behind the falls offers a wide range of mid- to Common Bronzewing, Painted Button-quail, Boardwalk – Cairns Airport Drive Waterbirds, with Brolga, Black Swan, Green high-altitude birds including Scarlet Honeyeater Brown Treecreeper, Red-browed Pardalote, Two boardwalks within the mangroves allow Pygmy-goose, whistling-ducks, Black-necked and even Golden Bowerbird. Varied Sittella and Crested Shrike-tit easy access to mangrove species such as Stork and some shorebirds when the water level 26 Emerald Creek – Dinden State 30 Mt Hypipamee National Park is low. Also Grey-crowned Babbler Apostlebird, Torresian Kingfisher, Black Butcherbird, Shining Forest Offers good viewing of several endemics, and Red-backed Fairy-wren. Eastern Osprey is Flycatcher and Mangrove Robin. Riparian forest and wet-sclerophyll, good for including; Fernwren, Bridled Honeyeater, Grey- regular. 6 Redden Island Pale-headed Rosella, honeyeaters including headed Robin, Chowchilla and is habitat for Road access via Machan's Beach. Contains a 22 Mareeba Wetlands Bridled (in winter), Yellow and White-naped, Golden Bowerbird. Keep a lookout for the high diversity of habitats in a small area Dry country species such as, Squatter Pigeon, White-browed Robin, Weebill and a chance of occasional Southern Cassowary. attracting a good species range including Brown Tree-creeper, Lemon-bellied Flycatcher, Rufous Owl. 31 Wongabel State Forest Weebill, Grey-crowned Babbler, and Black- shorebirds at the Barron River mouth. A special piece of remnant rainforest attracts throated Finch. The lagoons can hold Brolga many rainforest birds including Emerald Dove, 7 Cattana Wetlands and both pygmy-geese, Comb-crested Jacana Wompoo Fruit-Dove, White-throated Opened in 2009, this rehabilitated cane field and some ducks. and quarry is now a Nature Conservation Park Treecreeper, Fernwren, Tooth-billed Bowerbird and provides habitat for a great variety of bush and Bower's Shrike-thrush along the 1 hour walk and water birds. Accessed by either Yorkeys (2.6 kilometre circuit). Knob Road or McGregor Road, Smithfield. Cooktown 32 Hasties Swamp National Park 8 Yule Point D A tiny national park also known as Nyleta Extensive sand flats with a fringing reef which is Wetlands has recorded more than 220 bird exposed at low tide. Many migratory shorebirds species. The two-storey bird hide is the perfect found here including Sanderling. Also Beach place to spot wetland species. Stone-curlew and Little Tern. 33 Bromfield Swamp This extinct volcanic crater is a roosting site for 9 Michaelmas Cay National Park – Cairns Rossville hundreds of Sarus Crane and Brolga in winter Great Barrier Reef (June – October). Best viewing is early morning Important seabird breeding site for Common or dusk when the birds fly in for the evening Noddy, Sooty Tern, Lesser Crested Tern and after feeding in the nearby paddocks. Crested Tern. Frigatebirds and boobies often seen. Access with commercial tour companies. 34 Curtain Fig National Park To Cairns Touristy but spectacular, in fine Mabi rainforest and a great spot for Wompoo Fruit Dove, Kingfisher Trail – Mossman & Brown Cuckoo-Dove, Bower's Shrike-thrush, Daintree Grey-headed Robin, Pied and Black-faced monarchs, White-throated Tree-creeper and Bloomfield Eastern Whipbird. 35 Crater Lakes National Park – Lake Eacham and Lake Barrine Walking tracks around these scenic lakes give good opportunities for most of the local Cape endemics and a range of other species. Tribulation 36 Pelican Point 20ha of revegetated woodland, rainforest and grasses on the shores of Lake Tinaroo has 193 species recorded. Sarus Crane may roost here H A B 14 13 15 (June-October). Daintree Wonga Beach 12 Cassowary Trail – Cairns south to Mission Beach Newell Beach GREAT 11 10 Port To Cooktown Mossman C Douglas BARRIER REEF Buff-breasted Paradise Kingfisher - Keith & Lindsay Fisher 16 I 8 18 Michaelmas Cay 10 Mossman Gorge - Daintree 19 Mt Carbine Julatten 9 National Park J 17 Dense lowland rainforest. Use 2.7km loop walking track to avoid the crowds in the picnic Mount Molloy area. Double-eyed Fig-Parrot, Noisy Pitta, Pied 20 Monarch and Yellow-breasted Boatbill are Green Island present. 21 K E 23 11 Newell Beach area Smithfield Area is known for Red-rumped and Barn Kuranda 7 Yorkeys Knob Swallows in summer months, check powerlines. Machans Beach The beach at the Mossman River mouth also 6 5 good for waders and Torresian Kingfisher in 22 1 G mangroves. 25 Cairns 12 Wonga Beach Mareeba This is a reliable Beach Stone-Curlew location Southern Cassowary - Phil Gregory 24 26 and is also a good place to find Double-eyed 37 Goldsborough Valley – Fig-Parrots in open vegetation. Walkamin Wooroonooran National Park 13 Daintree Village Gordonvale Campground in lowland rainforest along Tiny township on the Daintree River Mulgrave River. Kearneys Falls track traverses surrounded by rainforest and grassland. The Tinaroo rainforest and is a good lowland site for Lake Tinaroo river is accessed by bird tour boats from the Victoria's Riflebird and fruit-doves. 36 37 village jetty. Well-known for Great-billed Tolga 38 Eubenangee Swamp National Park Heron, Black Bittern, Little Kingfisher and Atherton Lake Barrine One of the most important wetlands between Papuan Frogmouth. F Yungaburra 34 Ingham and Cooktown - home to waterbirds, 32 14 Stewart Creek Road 31 L 35 Babinda grassbirds and forest dwellers. Black-necked A short walk, or drive the 8km from Daintree Lake Eacham Bramston Beach Stork, egrets, herons and ibis feed in the Herberton Malanda Village. Traverses different forest types, 33 swamplands. farmland, wetlands and creeks. Lovely Fairy- 38 30 39 Etty Bay Wren, Little Bronze-Cuckoo, Fairy Gerygone, Wondecla M Small picnic area with camping and caravan kingfishers and raptors. park. Reliable for Southern Cassowary and 15 Jindalba Boardwalk – Daintree Millaa Millaa Beach Stone-curlew. Kaban Innisfail National Park 29 North of the Daintree River. Provides easy Etty Bay 39 access to the rainforest and species such as Southern Cassowary, Victoria's Riflebird, Buff- Ravenshoe 27 breasted Paradise-Kingfisher, Wompoo Fruit- 28 Dove, Superb Fruit-Dove and Noisy Pitta.