Australia Queensland

Australia is one of the world's "easy" birding destinations, although some interior species can be impossibly difficult. The country is so vast that unless you do an extended trip it is best done in sections; we have visited three times, and our first visit was to the Cairns area, which also enables you to access the Great Barrier Reef. This area probably provides the greatest variety and numbers of birds, although many species are found all over, each area has its own specialities. Some families are totally absent from Australia (e.g. Woodpeckers) but many have representatives at home. The numbers in Oz. tend to be much greater, for example ten Kingfishers, twenty-four Pigeons and eleven Owls. Raptors and waders are also well represented, whereas Passerines include several endemic or near-endemic families such as Fairy-wrens Logrunners and Lyrebirds. Many other essentially tropical groups occur, notably Honeyeaters and Parrots. Don't worry about the snakes, spiders etc., they are certainly around but most people never encounter them, and sensible behaviour will ensure you see saltwater crocs from the outside only. Perhaps the biggest danger to a birder could be a Cassowary attack!

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SOUTHERN CASSOWARY WHITE-BELLIED SEA-EAGLE AUSTRALIAN BUSTARD BLUE-WINGED KOOKABURRA SPOTTED PARDALOTE MACLEAY'S HONEYEATER BLACK-FACED WOODSWALLOW

ORANGE-FOOTED SCRUBFOWL SARUS CRANE DOUBLE-EYED FIG-PARROT BUFF-BREASTED PARADISE KINGFISHER RED-BACKED FAIRY-WREN NEW HOLLAND HONEYEATER MISTLETOE BIRD

TORRESIAN IMPERIAL-PIGEON BUFF-BANDED RAIL PALLID CUCKOO RAINBOW BEE-EATER AUSTRALASIAN FIGBIRD TREE MARTIN DOUBLE-BARRED FINCH