Fraser Island and Moreton Island Birders Tours

Sunrover Bird Watching Tours Queensland Australia operates several specific trips around Fraser Island, Moreton Island and Outback Queensland with weekly departures. Our 5 Day World Heritage Listed Fraser Island Bird Watching Tour departing Tuesday's, 5 Day Outback Bird Watching Explorer departing Mondays, and 1/2/3 Day Moreton Island Discovery Daily. We can also organise custom tours around Great Barrier Reef, North Stradbroke Island and Laming ton National Park, Byron Bay coastal and Hinterland, anywhere in Australia with guide Terry Howard and Naturalist Tony Bright. Our customised tours in recent years have ranged from 1 day to 20 day tours. Sunrover Bird Watching tours Queensland Australia can organise your logistics and itinerary for special groups and needs. Your local tour guides with most having 3-4 years on the island and surround Australian Habitats and extended touring are very knowledgeable about the local and migratory birds. Through their considerable expertise both on the island and surrounding areas (eg Outback tours and Fraser island / Great Barrier Reef Tour), your guides know habitats intimately. They know exactly where to look and what to look for, ensuring you will have a great time and maximise your experiences and enjoyment. They are also your guide, driver and cook for the tour - all are helpful and cater for the small group needs. (Max 10 on tours)

Contact Office manager Rob - 07 3203 4241

Email - tours@sunrover.com.au

About 800 endemic/migratory species call into coastal Australia's waterways, beaches and islands. Sunrover tours operators guided bird watching tours throughout the year. On our Moreton Island 3 Day tour the National Park birding watching Tour, we not only camp inside of the national park, which allows for 24 hour watches but are adjacent to Moreton Bay Marine Park - with mangroves, tidal sand systems and coastal waterways, both fresh, salt and a mixture make this area home to over 300 bird species of these at different times of the year. Our 2 or 3 day bird watching tours are an excellent way of seeing many of Australia's unique bird species, wildlife, landscapes, flora and fauna with a small and friendly group of like minded people.

After a meet and greet with your guide at Brisbane City or the Ferry we travel to Moreton Island, Fraser Island with a number of habitats to see over the next few days.

Both islands cover a number of habitats included are some areas of highlight and the birds that can be seen - Camping or Accommodation within the National Park is also a bonus as we can take a short coastal forest walks at any time. By 4WD we will travel to open and forested woodlands and coastal heathland, freshwater creeks and inter tidal salt marsh wilderness zones, marine park areas, and paperbark swap marsh health land.

Birds included both at camp and on 4WD Day tours Pelican, Kingfisher, Yellow-faced, Lewin's, Pied & Sooty Oystercatchers, Red-capped Sand Plover, Masked Lapwing Red-kneed Dotterel. Sanderling, Beach Stone-curlew, and Long-toed Stint could be possibly seen on our tour. Scarlet Honeyeater, Grey and Pied Butcherbird, Olive-backed Oriole, Willie Wagtail, Eastern Yellow Robin, Eastern Spinebill, Bell Miner, Kookaburra, Brown Gerygone, Striated Pardalote, White-headed Pigeon, bar shoulder dove, Quail, White-faced Heron, Black-shouldered Kite, Brown Goshawk, White-bellied Sea-Eagle, Australian Kestel, Black-winged Stilt, Welcome Swallow, Masked Lapwing, Silver Gull, Mangrove Gerygone, Brown & Yellow-rumped Thornbill, Magpie Lark, Wedge-tailed & Short-tailed Shearwaters, Black-faced Cuckoo Shrike, Australian Raven, Australian Pipit, White-faced Chat, Gull-billed and Caspian Terns and the magnificent White-bellied Sea-Eagle. Black-fronted Dotterel, Australian Reed-Warbler, Little Grassbird, and Eastern Curlew. Black-tailed & Bar-tailed Godwit, Marsh Sandpiper, Common Greenshank, Terek Sandpiper, Grey-tailed Tattler, Great & Red Knot, Red-necked Stint, Sharp-tailed & Curlew Sandpiper, Red-capped Plover and Pacific Golden Plover. Australian Wood Duck, Grey & Chestnut Teal, Australian Grebe, Black, Pied & Little Pied Cormorant, Little, Great Egret, Australian Spotted Crake, Purple Swamphen, Yellow-faced & White-cheeked Honeyeater, White-breasted Woodswallow, Red-browed Firetail & Silvereye.