Spend a full day birding and searching for special Tasmanian mammals in Mount Field National Park. Mount Field National Park is one of Tasmania’s oldest National Parks, and one of the oldest reserves in Australia. While small, this national park contains several habitat. From cool temperate rainforest and lush tree fern gullies with streams and waterfalls, to alpine heathlands and glacial landscape rich in lakes and tarns. This habitat variety provides for great birding and wildlife viewing and is also rich in paleoendemic flora.
Departing from Hobart, the expert naturalist guide will lead you along the Derwent River, searching for waterbirds such as the Australasian Shoveler, Australian Shelduck and Black-fronted Dotterel. Once at Mount Field, bird species we will look for include the endemic Scrubtit, Tasmanian Thornbill, Tasmanian Scrubwren, Green Rosella, Yellow-throated Honeyeater and Black Currawong as well as Yellow-tailed Black-cockatoo, Crescent Honeyeater and Pink Robin. We also have a chance of seeing the bizarre Platypus, one of Australia’s two monotreme (egg-laying mammal) species in the clean, cool rivers around Mt Field.
Tasmania is a cool temperate climate, with four distinct seasons. The warmest months are December, January, February and March. Autumn has still, sunny days. Winter runs from May through August. However, the climate can vary greatly – on any given day.
Cost for a single person tour: $1100
Cost per person for 2-6 people: $595
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The tour starts with pick-up from your accomodation in Hobart. The specialist nature guide will transport you to the beautiful Mt Field national park. Along the way, we follow Tasmania’s mighty Derwent River upstream, stopping en route at a lagoon excellent for waterbirds, including Australasian Shoveler, Australian Shelduck, Black-fronted Dotterel and possibly Freckled Duck and Australian Spotted Crake.
The tour then continues to Mt Field National Park, one of Tasmania’s oldest National Parks and one of the oldest reserves in Australia. While quite small, this national park contains several habitats, from cool temperate rainforest and lush tree fern gullies with streams and waterfalls, to alpine heathlands and glacial landscape rich in lakes and tarns. This variety provides for great birding and wildlife viewing and is also rich in paleoendemic flora. Mighty Mountain Ash (Eucalyptus regnans), the world’s tallest flowering plant, grows to a gigantic size here.
Bird species we will look for today include the endemic Scrubtit, Tasmanian Thornbill, Tasmanian Scrubwren, Green Rosella, Yellow-throated Honeyeater and Black Currawong as well as Yellow-tailed Black-cockatoo, Crescent Honeyeater and Pink Robin. We also have a chance of seeing the bizarre Platypus, one of Australia’s two monotreme (egg-laying mammal) species in the clean, cool rivers around Mt Field.
In the late afternoon we will make our way out of the park and return to Hobart.
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Take a multi-day tour, by combining several of our special Southern Tasmania day tours.
Birds and Mammals of Maria Island
Birding Tour of the Tasman Peninsula
Birding in Mt Field National Park
Tasmanian Endemic Birds of Hobart Day Tour
Forest and Woodland Birds of Hobart
Birding along the Southern Forests and Coast
Hobart to Bruny Island Day Tour
Tours start with pickup from your Hobart area accommodation, or we can collect directly from a visiting cruise ship at the Hobart dock.
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Inala Nature
320 Cloudy Bay Road, Lunawanna
South Bruny Island 7150
Tasmania, Australia
Phone:Â +61 3 6293 1217
Inala Nature acknowledge and pay respects to the palawa people as the traditional and original owners, and continuing custodians of this land, lutruwita, and acknowledges Elders - past and present. Inala Nature Tours and the Inala Foundation Inc are located on lunawanna- alonnah, also known as Bruny Island, the traditional land of the Nuenonne people.
