This tour explores some of Australia's most iconic areas of Northern Australia, including Kakadu and the Kimberley. Some of our most sought-after birds, including Gouldian Finch and Hooded Parrot inhabit some of our most stunning landscapes. Join us on our next journey across Australia’s Top End!

A huge list of over 200 species of birds has been recorded in this amazing region, including range-restricted species like Rainbow Pitta, Banded Fruit Dove, White-lined Honeyeater, Sandstone Shrike-thrush, Partridge Pigeon, White-quilled and Chestnut-quilled Rock- pigeons, Silver-backed Butcherbird, Purple-crowned Fairywren, Northern Shrike-tit, Arafura Shrikethrush, Chestnut-backed & Red-backed Buttonquails, Mangrove Golden & White-breasted Whistlers, Varied Lorikeet, Northern Rosella, Rufous Owl, Chestnut Rail, Buff-sided Robin, Black-backed Treecreeper, Paperbark, Broad-billed & Shining Flycatchers, Arafura Fantail, Australian Yellow White-eye, Yellow-rumped & Pictorella Mannikins, Star Finch and Yellow Chat. Sought-after mammals include Short-eared and Wilkin’s Rock-wallaby, Antilopine and Black Wallaroo, both Black & Little Red Flying-fox and Dingo. Enjoy Kakadu’s vast wetlands, the Kimberley including Lake Argyle, as well as spectacular scenery, indigenous rock art and amazing boab trees (Adansonia gregorii).

The ‘Red Centre’ is an extraordinary landscape of desert plains, ancient weathered mountain ranges, rocky gorges, and some of Aboriginal Australia's most sacred sites. 

This tour has been designed to maximise the chances of experiencing the birds and wildlife of the area around Alice Springs and the West MacDonnell Ranges, visiting the ranges, spinifex grasslands, Mulga country, and desert waterholes. Iconic ‘Outback’ dry country bird species we will be searching for include Dusky Grasswren, Rufous-crowned Emu-wren, Banded Whiteface, Cinnamon Quail-thrush, Grey Honeyeater, Spinifexbird, White-browed Treecreeper, Grey Falcon, Orange and Crimson Chats, Chiming Wedgebill and parrots such as Pink (formerly Major Mitchell’s) Cockatoo, Cockatiel, Bourke’s Parrot, Budgerigar, Mulga Parrot and Australian Ringneck. These areas are also great places to find macropods such as Black-flanked Rock-wallaby, Red Kangaroo and Euro, as well as Dingo.

This small group tour has been designed to adjoin our Birds and Wildlife of Kakadu and Kimberley tour.