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Townsville · North & West Queensland

The wild awaits

North Queensland through the eyes of a local. Day tours and multi-day trips across the rainforest and the outback.

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Rainforest track, Paluma Range National Park

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North Queensland, a land of contrast

Within an hour or two of Townsville you can stand in tropical rainforest, walk the wetlands of the coast or head out into the dry country where the inland birds live. Every tour below is a starting point. Tell me what you'd like to see and I'll shape the day around it.

  • Full day
  • Rainforest

Paluma Range National Park

A full day in the cool upland rainforest, with three or four stops, a packed lunch and an optional swim in the mountain creek.

Target species

  • Golden Bowerbird
  • Tooth-billed Bowerbird
  • Victoria's Riflebird
  • Pied Monarch

Price on enquiry

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  • Full day
  • Wetlands & woodland
  • Customisable

Townsville: pick two of the following

Choose two of the Town Common, the Borrow Pits, Aligator creek and Oak Valley: salt and freshwater pools, grassland and easy 4–5 km walks.

Target species

  • Red-tailed Black Cockatoo
  • Pale-headed Rosella
  • Double-barred Finch

Price on enquiry

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  • Multi-day
  • Outback

Into the outback

Placeholder: a multi-day trip west of Townsville for the birds of the dry inland country. Route, length and target species to come.

Price on enquiry

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Your guide pointing up into the canopy to show a guest a bird, on a rainforest track

Meet your guide

A local who knows where the birds are

I run small, private bird and nature tours from Townsville. I've spent years exploring the rainforest, wetlands and dry country of North Queensland, and I take most of the photos you'll see on this site myself.

I look after the transport, food, accommodation and gear, so all you have to do is look up. Placeholder: a sentence or two more about how you got into birding and what you love about this part of the world.

  • Private tours for one to four guests
  • Pickup from your Townsville accommodation
  • Food, transport and gear included
  • Every tour can be changed to suit you

From the field

Birds you might see

A few of the regulars on my tours, all photographed close to Townsville.

A Black-necked Stork with glossy green-black neck and long red legs, standing in shallow water at the edge of a grassy wetland
Black-necked Stork Ephippiorhynchus asiaticus
Townsville Town Common
A male Golden Bowerbird, bright golden-orange, perched on a thin branch in the rainforest
Golden Bowerbird Prionodura newtoniana
Paluma Range
A Barking Owl with large yellow eyes and white-spotted brown wings, looking back over its shoulder from a leafy tree
Barking Owl Ninox connivens
Borrow Pits, Townsville
A male Victoria's Riflebird, velvet black with an iridescent blue-green crown and throat, on a mossy branch
Victoria's Riflebird Ptiloris victoriae
Paluma Range

From guests

What people say

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Plan your day in the field

Tell me which birds you're after and when you're in Townsville, and I'll suggest the right tour.

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