Bird Guiding
Personalised tours cater for all enthusiasts ranging from first time beginners to twitchers completing their Australian list. Watch and photograph the birds in their own habitat and learn more about their natural history. Half of Australia's birds live in the Wet Tropics and many are easily found with this skilled guide and his local knowledge. A telescope is provided for closer viewing.

Your Bird Tour can be customised to view the birds and habitats you want to see. Or consider these popular options:

Golden Bowerbird Tour
Would you like to witness the courting display of Golden Bowerbird? A view of this rare and elusive species is reliably offered only October to January. Other bowerbirds that may be sighted are the Spotted Catbird, Tooth-Billed Bowerbird, Great Bowerbird and Satin Bowerbird.

Cranes and Wetlands Tour
May to December is the time to watch and film Brolgas and Sarus Cranes dancing, displaying, flying and feeding. A multitude of wetland birds live on the Tableland lakes, swamps and rivers.

Naturalist Tour
Explore a variety of Atherton Tablelands habitats. Getting up close to flora and fauna in the wild provides great photographic opportunities. Enjoy the stories that will enrich your experience of these diverse ecosystems. Many rare plants are to be found on the Cairns Highlands. Your guide's knowledge allows you to view the plants at their best.

Tell Alan what excites you. You choose the focus: kangaroos & platypus, primitive plants, butterflies and their food plants...

The Spot the Lot option includes a nocturnal tour to see tree-kangaroos and possums.

These tours operate on a minimum of two adults basis. Travel is in guest's vehicle.

Nocturnal Spotlighting - Tree-kangaroo and Possum Tour

The rare Lumholtz's Tree-kangaroo is restricted to the uplands of Australia's wet tropics. It is the smallest of the tree-kangaroos. Long powerful forearms and short broad feet allow this kangaroo to live in the rainforest canopy. Males can grow to 10 kilograms, with a 70 centimetre tail that is used for balance. Tree-kangaroos can move their feet independently.

This walking tour is conducted on a working dairy farm along farm roads. We walk along the edge of type 5b rainforest which is the preferred habitat of Lumholtz's Tree-kangaroo. Most of this type of rainforest has been cleared for agriculture as it grows on deep, rich volcanic soils and is characterized by a large number of semi-deciduous trees such as the sought after Red Cedar. On a regular nocturnal tour you are likely to see about eight Coppery Brushtail Possums and three Green Ringtail Possums.

The Wet Tropic area of Australia is home to fourteen species of possum, some of which are found nowhere else. The Greens are endemic to the highlands behind Cairns while the Copperies are found throughout Queensland's Wet Tropics. Green Ringtails have small ears, white bellies and five stripes on their backs. Coppery Brushtails have large pointed ears and are often a rich red colour.

Occasionally Striped Possums are seen. These little carnivores are highly active unlike the slothful Greens.

Tours to view the high altitude species and gliders can be arranged.

This tour runs on a minimum of two adults basis.

By adding a nocturnal tour to the Natural History Tour you can expect to see four or five species of kangaroos and two of possums.
While a wonderful suite of six owl species are present they are not often seen.

This tour runs on a minimum of two adults basis.