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 The
Melbourne Birder - Steve Davidson
Contact details:
e-mail: info@themelbournebirder.com
Tel: N/A
Mobile: +61 430 530 631
Fax: N/A
Link: The Melbourne Birder - www.themelbournebirder.com
Profile:
The Melbourne
Birder offers a range of tours and guiding services to
interstate and international visitors and local birders alike.
We operate in Melbourne and southern Victoria and offer specifically
designed trips to suit experience or amateur birders visiting
Melbourne for a short stay.
Steve Davidson, aka
The Melbourne Birder, has been birding in Melbourne his entire
life and has an extensive knowledge and a comprehensive picture
of birdlife in the Greater Melbourne region.
Habitats we visit
encompass wet forest, dry forest, heathlands, wetlands, coastal
and marine habitats. We regularly see species such as Superb Lyrebird,
White-throated Nightjar, Pilotbird, Beautiful Firetail, Lewin's
Rail, Southern Emu-wren, Pink Robin, Cicadabird, Red-browed Treecreeper,
Spotted Quail-thrush, Rufous Bristlebird and Cape Barren Goose
to name a few.
Contact
Steve for a day's birding you won't forget. Check out the website
at: www.themelbournebirder.com
The
Melbourne Birder – Steve Davidson
PO Box 442
Hawthorn, VIC
3122
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Also available to Guide
in: Australia Only.
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Chris
Doughty - Peregrine Bird Tours
Contact details:
e-mail: info@peregrinebirdtours.com
Tel: 613 9726 8471
Mobile: 0402051743
Fax: 613 9727 1545
Link: N/A
Profile:
Originally from the
U.K. Chris has lived in Australia for 30 years and is one of the
most highly skilled birders in the country and by far the most
experienced tour guide in Australia. He has been leading birding
tours in Australia for 20 years and has observed in excess of
720 species of birds in Australia, which includes every Australian
breeding species.
Chris founded and
manages Australia's foremost birdwatching tour company - Peregrine
Bird Tours. He is the author of a Field Guide to the Birds of
the Solomon Islands, Vanuatu and New Caledonia. Chris has also
led many birding tours to Asia, the Pacific, Africa, the America's,
Europe and Antarctica.
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Also available to Guide
in: Australia Only.
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Denise
Goodfellow
Contact details:
e-mail: goodfellow@bigpond.com
Tel: 61 8 8981 8492
Fax: N/A
Link: DeniseGoodfellow.com www.denisegoodfellow.com
Profile:
 Denise
Lawungkurr Goodfellow been a birding guide for over 20 years and
has had a career path 'like a mad dog's dinner,' ranging from
music teacher and buffalo shooter to biologist, guide, lecturer,
cross-cultural consultant, author, and illustrator.
A member of the Kunwinjku
peoples of NW Arnhem Land, she is the family snake-catcher and
a dab hand at catching pigs with a castnet! She also mediates
in times of family trouble.
Lawungkurr, a name
given to her by the clan matriarchs is the name of a long-dead
but still highly honoured woman of her clan. In 2000 Denise was
contracted to work as interpreter/transcriber on the Lonely Planet's
Guide to Aboriginal Australia. Denise also lectures in environmental
studies for the University of New South Wales' summer school.
Birders everywhere are going to love her latest book, Bird's
of Australia's Top End.
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Also available to Guide
in: Australia Only.
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 General
Flora and Fauna ~ Greg Little
Contact details:
e-mail: gjlgff@bigpond.net.au
Tel: 02 49556609
Mobile: 0414 562169
Link: General Flora and Fauna www.gff.com.au
Profile:
Greg can assist individuals
and small groups of birdwatchers to target common, rare and endemic
birds, from a range of habitats anywhere in Australia, based in
the Newcastle, Hunter Region of NSW, Australia.
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Also available to Guide
in: Australia Only.
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 For
the last 3 years Tony Wilson of Manu
Tours have been contucting birding tours in the "Austalia's
Top End" Australia
has over 750 recorded bird species, of which 320 are endemic, in
addition to an amazing collection of mammals, reptiles and amphibians.
Australia is a vast continent so we have chosen to focus on the
tropical areas, which are rich in birds and other life forms. The
tour is planned to be as relaxing as possible by staying close to
the best sites and limiting long days of travel to a minimum. We
will endeavor to find the specialty birds for each of the areas
we visit.
Our
tour will take us to the Darwin area with its rivers, swamps and
billabongs, home to the Great-billed Heron, Chestnut Rail,
Black Butcherbird, Varied Lorikeet, Large-billed Gerygone, Rose-crowned
Fruit-dove and Rainbow Pitta. We will also explore the
wonders of world famous Kakadu National Park, with its incredible
scenery.
In
the Cairns region, we will visit such diverse habitats as coastal
mangroves and many of the different forest types. A wonderful assemblage
of shorebirds can be found along the Cairns waterfront, including
Greater and Lesser Sandplovers, Terek
and Sharp-tailed Sandpiper, and Black-tailed
and Bar-tailed Godwits. Double-eyed
Fig-Parrots and Southern Cassowary are
often seen in the coastal parks. No tour to this area would be complete
without a visit to the Great Barrier Reef. We will visit Michaelmas
Cay with its thousands of breeding Brown Noddys, Sooty Terns,
Bridled Terns, Lesser-crested Terns, and Brown
Boobys. We will also have the opportunity to snorkel this
magnificent reef.
In
the rainforests of the Atherton Tablelands area we'll look for Bush-hen,
Buff-banded Rail, Tooth-billed Catbird, Golden Bowerbird, Bridled
Honeyeaters and Atherton Scrubwren. Amongst the open country and
wetlands of this refreshing area we have also seen Wompoo
Fruit-dove, Toothbilled Bowerbird, Grass Owl, Sarus Crane
and Wedge-tailed Eagle. Some of the regularly seen
mammals include Platypus, Striped Possum, Tree Kangaroo and Red-legged
Pademelon.
LAMINGTON
EXTENSION
Depending upon interest, we have scheduled a flight to Brisbane
and a drive to Lamington National Park. We will overnight for 3
night's at the famed O'Reilly's Guest House,
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Also available to Guide
in: New Caledonia, New Zealand Solomon Islands and Vanuatu.
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