Australia Birding Tours

Summary of tours

Our Australia birding tours comprehensively cover this unique and biodiverse country. We offer birding tours to Tasmania, the Northern Territory (including the Top End, Alice Springs, and the iconic Uluru), Western Australia, and a mega eastern Australia birding tour that takes in Victoria, New South Wales, and Queensland. We run these tours primarily from September to November and focus on Australian endemic birds and mammals that inhabit Australia’s diverse habitats. We run all of our birding tours in Australia back-to-back, allowing you to combine them and see as many of Australia’s more than 900 recorded bird species as possible.

Introduction to Australia

We have a range of exciting Australia birding tours which visit Australia’s top birding sites and target most of this island continent’s bird endemics while also encountering a multitude of fascinating mammal species. The Commonwealth of Australia (“Australia” hereafter) is a country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania and numerous other smaller islands. Australia is the largest country in Oceania and the sixth-largest country by total area. It has a population of 26 million people found in the major cities, primarily along the east coast, these including Canberra (the capital), Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and Adelaide, with Perth being the largest city in the southwest.

Read More About Australia

Australia has six states (most of which we visit on our Australia birding tours) – New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, and Western Australia, and two mainland territories – the Northern Territory and the Australian Capital Territory. Several external territories are also administered by the commonwealth – these include Christmas Island, the Cocos (Keeling) Islands, the Coral Sea Islands, Heard Island and the MacDonald Islands, and Norfolk Island. Two other islands are part of mainland states, Macquarie Island (part of Tasmania) and Lord Howe Island (part of New South Wales). Australia is surrounded by the Indian and Pacific Oceans but nearby countries include New Zealand, New Caledonia, Papua New Guinea, and Indonesia.

Australia is the oldest, flattest, and driest inhabited continent, with the least fertile soil and is made up of a variety of landscapes ranging from deserts (“The Outback” and Uluru/Ayers Rock) to tropical and temperate rainforests. The Great Barrier Reef is the world’s longest coral reef and is located just off the northeast coast. The Great Dividing Range runs down the east of the country, the fertile Atherton Tablelands providing some great birding.

Download Australia Itineraries

Australia: from the Outback to the Wet Tropics October 2025/2026/2027

Australia: Northern Territory - Alice Springs and Uluru Birding Tour September 2026/2027

Australia: Northern Territory - Top End Birding September 2026/2027

Australia: Tasmania – Endemics & the Orange-bellied Parrot October 2025/2026/2027

Western Australia: Southwest Specialties September 2026/2027

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Testimonials from our Australia birding tours

Took the "Eastern Australia: from the Outback to the Wet Tropics" tour, my first with Birding Ecotours. Itinerary fit my needs to a "T". Birds were spectacular and guides made a special effort at each stop to find the unique birds. Also bagged some fascinating fauna including tree kangaroo, platypus, koala, and echinda. Andy Walker was an excellent guide. He is personable with a great sense of humour. His ability to adapt to changing circumstances was excellent. He and his local guide knew the birds and terrain very well, optimized our birding time at each locale by knowing what key species occurred at each, and took pains to be sure everyone got on each bird.

Mike - On Andy and Australia - November 2022

Andy Walker is one of the truly exceptional guides in the world of birding. His skill at hearing and then finding birds is amazing. Couple this with an innate sense of getting his clients into the best possible position to both see and photo the given bird elevates him from "competent" to "top notch." I have been with Andy twice and intend to search him out again.

Jay - On Andy and Australia - November 2022

We loved traveling with Andy. Thanks to Andy’s birding and organization skills, this trip exceeded our expectations. Andy is an excellent bird guide and tour leader! His knowledge of the birds, their songs, habitats, and ability to locate birds was amazing. We all appreciated his ability to make sure that we all saw good views of the birds.

Donna and Allen - On Andy and Australia - November 2017

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