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Bird Guides
Glenn
Holmes.......
dasyornis@ledanet.com.au
Phone &
Fax: (07) 4091 4364 International 61 7 4091 4364.
Glenn works as a
consulting ecologist with the Dept of Environment and Heritage,
the CSIRO, various other government bodies and private corporations.
Glenn has lead many successful Australian and International birding tours and is
highly qualified for locating the harder to find bird species in Tropical
North Qld
Glenn is an excellent bird guide with an exceptional knowledge of bird
sites on the Atherton Tableland.
A very full days birding with Glenn for 1 or 2 persons
costs: AUD$180
A half days birding with Glenn for 1 or 2
persons costs: AUD$100
Jonathan Munro......
Phone & Fax (07) 4032-2237 International 61 7
4032 2237.
Specialised group and individual tours by prearrangement. Jonathan owns a
highland rainforest preserve on the Evelyn Tablelands where over 200 bird species have
been observed, including Victoria's Riflebird, Golden and Tooth-billed Bowerbirds,
Chowchilla, Fernwren, Cassowary and Lesser Sooty Owl.
Andrew Anderson's Birding Service......
Email birdo@internetnorth.com.au......
Phone:( 07) 4031 8803 International 61 7 4031
8803
"Showing The Birds Of Australasia To The People Of The World". Andrew is an experienced birding guide, we highly
recommend, who operates in Cairns area, The Atherton Tableland and elsewhere in
Australasia. He specialises in Far North Queensland, New Zealand and Papua New Guinea.
Andrew is good with small personalised groups and film crews as well as with large
international tour groups.
Chris
Dahlberg's Birdwatching River Tours.
Email: chrisd@internetnorth.com.au
Phone/Fax: (07) 4098 7997 Intl: 61 7 4098 7997
Chris
Dahlberg is a local birdwatching enthusiast who has been conducting daily dawn river
Birdwatching Cruises on the Daintree River since 1992. Chris averages 50 bird specie
sightings in winter, and 40 in summer, with regular reptile and nocturnal mammals
sightings as an added bonus.
Fine Feather Tours-Del &
Pat Richards.
Email:fifetour@ozemail.com.au
Phone/Fax: (07) 4094 1199 International: 61 7 4094 1199
Del has accumulated over forty years
experience birding in all Australian states, and is able to locate the vast majority of
the local species. Del and Pat are based in Mossman North Queensland, between Port Douglas
and the Daintree River. Their tours, which operate daily, visit up to eight different
habitats including lowland rainforest, river mouth, mangroves, salt marsh, upland
rainforest, wetland, grassland and savannah woodland.
Klaus Uhlenhut's Kirrama
Wildlife Tours
email:
kirrama@znet.net.au
Phone: (07) 4065 5181 International: 61 7 40655 181
Fax: (07) 4065 5197 International: 61 7 40655 197
Klaus is based at Silkwood south of Cairns and
has invaluable knowledge, of the wildlife of northern Australia and all those special
places, gained from years of experience with wildlife, photography and the tourist
industry. Time spent with Klaus in the wild is always memorable. His infectious enthusiasm
and knowledge of what is going on all around both by day and by night ensures there is
never a dull moment.
Nocturnal Animal Viewing Guides
 
Wait-A-While Environmental Tours. Specialise in afternoon-evening tours that
combine rainforest interpretive walks with birdwatching and wildlife viewing in the Wet
Tropics World Heritage area of The Waterfalls & Crater lakes District of The Atherton
Tableland. These relaxed, low impact tours allow small groups of visitors to visit upland
rainforest destinations of high conservation value, with an emphasis on observing and
photographing rare local endemic birds and mammals in their natural habitat.
Wait-a-While Environmental Tours offer guests staying at Chambers
Wildlife Rainforest Lodge a wonderful mountain wildlife experience tour which departs on
Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday.
This tour offers a great chance to see many different animal species with a
particular focus on the animals found only in the mountainous rainforests of the Wet
Tropics. These include the Lumholtzs Tree Kangaroo and Lemuroid, Green and Herbert
River Ringtail Possums as well as many others.
You will be picked up from Chambers at 5:30pm and taken to look for animals such
as the Musky Rat Kangaroo (the smallest and most primitive kangaroo) and the platypus (an
egg-laying mammal found only in Australia).
Dinner is at a nice country restaurant.
You will then be taken through both wet and dry sclerophyll forest to rainforest
at a higher altitude, and here, your spotlighting adventure will begin.
You will later have an opportunity to discuss what you have seen and heard, and
even find out more information about these fascinating creatures.
You will return to the Chambers Wildlife Rainforest Lodge a little after 11:00pm
with a greater appreciation of the rainforest, the life within it and the importance in
assisting with its preservation.
For guests staying at Chambers, the price is only $89.00 per person
Wildscapes Safaris
Specialise in Wildlife Tours between
Cairns and The Waterfalls & Crater lakes District of The Atherton Tablelands. They
provide a safe and comfortable experience that features Platypus and Nocturnal Wildlife
sightings. Their tours inform and educate as well as entertain. Their guides are always
environmentaly conscientious and are experienced in the techniques to allow guests the
opportunity to see, close up, wildlife in their natural habitat.
Jonathan Munro...... Phone & Fax 07 4032-2237
International 61 7 4032 2237. Specialised nocturnal animal tours for groups by
prearrangement. Jonathan owns a highland tropical rainforest preserve on the Evelyn
Tablelands, south west of Cairns. The preserve and surrounding World Heritage area are
home to rare, unique and primitive plants and animals such as 12 species of possums,
Lumholtz's tree kangaroos, and pademelons.
Clifford and Dawn Frith Wildlife Photography
Phone: 07 4096
8105 International: 61 7 4096 8105
Fax: 07 4096 8316 International: 61 7 4096 8316
The majority of the photographs you have seen on our
Rainforest Australia, Wildlife Australia
& Birdwatching Australia Websites have
been scanned
from well known nature books written by
Clifford and Dawn Frith.
The quality of our scanned photos does not do justice to the amazing photography
found in the Friths books
Clifford Friths career began as a post-graduate student at Monash
University in Victoria, before he became a freelance Zoologist, artist and photographer.
Dawn graduated from London University with an honours degree in Zoology, followed by a
Ph.D. in Marine Science.
Their joint researches have included work on crustaceans, insects, plants,
amphibians, reptiles and birds.
Clifford and Dawn published their first book, "Australian Tropical Rainforest
Life" in 1983, and have been producing amazing and informative books ever since.
Books in their series include:
Australian Tropical Reptiles and Frogs
Australian Tropical Reef Life
Australian Tropical Birds
Australian Tropical Rainforest Life
Australian Tropical Butterflies
Australias Cape York Peninsula
Australias Wet Tropics Rainforest Life
Their books are reasonably priced and may be purchased during your stay
at Chambers
Wildlife Rainforest Lodge, from most quality bookshops
or directly from Frith & Frith Books P.O. Box 581
Malanda.
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