trip reports & checklists of birds seen

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Wet Season January 2023 4 to 10 Jan. 11 to 17 Jan. 2023 Lockhart River, Cape York Checklist

Wet Season January 2022 4 to 10 Jan, 11 to 17 Jan, 18 to 24 Jan 2022 Lockhart River, Cape York Checklist.

Far North Queensland June 2021 trip report

Far North Queensland June 2021 checklist of species seen

Top End May 2021 checklist of species seen

Top End May 2021 trip report

Alice Springs, Marla, Yulara September 2019 checklist

South West Western Australia September 2019 checklist yet to be posted

Pilbara NW Western Australia 22 to 31 August 2019 
Pilbara NW Western Australia 10 to 18 August 2019 

Atherton Tablelands and Iron Range National Park 21 July 2 August 2019 checklist yet to be posted

Gulf of Carpentaria 2 to 17 July 2019 checklist

Atherton Tablelands and Iron Range NP June 2019 checklist of species seen (tour 1) 

Tasmanian bird and mammal tour 3 to 9 February 2019 trip report

Tasmania bird and mammal tour 3 to 9 February 2019 CHECKLIST

Strzelecki Outback birding tour 3 to 21 Sepember 2018 checklist yet to be posted

New Caledonia bird tour August 2018 checklist

Atherton Tablelands/Iron Range birding tour July/August 2018 checklist

Gulf of Carpentaria birding tour June/July 2018 checklist

Atherton Tablelands/Iron Range birding tour June 2018 checklist

Top End birding tour May/June 2018 checklist yet to be posted

Alice Springs bird tour April 2018 checklist yet to be posted

Tasmanian bird and mammal tour 2018 checklist of species seen

Tasmanian bird and mammal tour 2018 trip report

Plains-wanderer weekends 2017 — species checklist being reworked

Borderland Tours' SE Australia tour 28 October to 12 November 2017

Atherton Tablelands and Iron Range 2017 birding tour trip report

Gulf of Capentaria birding tour birding tour 2017 yet to be posted

Top End May/June 2017 trip report

Top End May/June 2017 checklist of species seen

Alice Springs birding tour species checklist 24 to 29 April 2017

Three days in the Victorian mallee 25 —28 February 2017

Tasmania bird and mammal tour species checklist 29 January —4 February 2017

Tasmania bird and mammal tour trip report 29 January to 4 February 2017

Cobar seed collection report with some birding 17 to 19 December 2016 posted 1 January 2017

Plains-wanderer weekend checklist of species seen 2013 — 2016

New Caledonia 14 — 21 August 2016 checklist of species seen


Rare footage of a Kagu swimming

Atherton Tablelands and Iron Range NP checklist July 2016

Gulf Country tour checlist of species seen June/July 2016

Video of black grasswren pair, Mitchell Plateau, Kimberley WA. June 2016
https://youtu.be/FpJ-h8_kuBQ

Top End 2016 checklist of species seen

25 April to 2 May 2016 Alice Springs trip report

31 January to 6 February 2016 Tasmania Bird and Mammal tour trip report

31 January to 6 February 2016 Tasmanian checklist of species seen

Strzelecki Outback tour 2015 checklist

Atherton Tablelands & Iron Range NP 2015 photos
Atherton Tablelands & Iron Range NP 2015 checklist of species seen
Atherton Tablelands & Iron Range NP 2015 trip report

Top End 25 May to 7 June 2015 checklist

Tasmania birding and mammal tour 1 - 7 February 2015 checklist

Tasmania 2015 birds, mammals, butterflies, reptiles
Tasmania 2015 flora photos

Billiatt Conservation Park, South Australia: survey report posted 19 January 2015

October 2014 Central Coast, Barren Grounds, Gloucester Tops, Wingham, NSW, checklist of species

Strzelecki Track Outback tour September 2014 checklist of species seen

Alice Springs August birding tour checklist of species seen posted soon

Gulf Country tour notes 13 — 26 July 2014

Checklist of species seen on the 2014 Gulf Country tour

Alice Springs tour notes 19 — 25 April 2014
Alice Springs 2014 checklist of species seen

South Island of New Zealand and Stewart Island
15 — 23 February 2014

Tasmanian birding and mammal tour
2 - 8 February 2014 report soon

Southwest Western Australia
11 - 18 December 2013 Trip

NSW Central Coast, Barrington Tops NP and Barren Grounds NR
22 - 29 September 2013 Trip report posted soon.

Strzelecki Track Outback (Vic- W NSW, SW Q'ld, SA desert & mallee country and Vic mallee)
1 - 20 September 2013

Gulf Country , Queensland (Cairns to Mt Isa)
20 July - 3 August 2013 Checklist of species seen
Some photos from the 2013 tour

Top End (Darwin , Kakadu NP, Katherine & Kununurra)
2 - 16 July 2013 checklist of species seen

Alice Springs birding tour
20 - 27 April 2013 checklist of species seen

Tasmania including Bruny Island and pelagic
2 — 9 February 2013 checklist of species seen

Personal birding tour Decie & Dan in the Victorian mallee: 31 December 2012 & 1 — 4 January 2013

Plains-wanderer Weekends' checklist of species seen 2009, 2010, 2011 & 2012

Personal birding tour: Michael Duffy: Victorian mallee 12—14 December 2012 (trip report posted soon)

Personal birdng tour: Hanna/Lambin Beechworth - Ouyen Victoria 20 to 23 November 2012

South West Western Australia 12 — 19 November 2012 trip report
South West Western Australia12 — 19 November 2012 Checklist

New Caledonia November 2012

Strzelecki Track outback tour September 2012 checklist

Andrew Smith's songs composed on the Strzelecki outback tour

Alice Springs & West MacDonnell Ranges checklist of species seen 24 -29 August 2012
Some photos taken on the 2012 Alice Springs tour

Private trip for eastern bristlebird and rufous scrub-bird 20 - 22 July 2012

Pilbara area, NW Western Australia 4 to 23 June 2012 (completed)

Trip to England 1 April to 12 May 2012

Tasmanian birding and mammal tour checklist 4 — 10 February 2012
Pelagic report off Eaglehawk Neck, Tasmania 10 February 2012
Photos Tasmania 2012.

Yorke & Upper Eyre Peninsulas & Ceduna area October 2011 photos & checklist
60+ scarlet-chested parrots were seen over 19 & 20 October in the Ceduna area.

Australian birding tours

Plains-wanderer Weekends' checklist of species seen 2009, 2010, 2011 & 2012

13 — 22 October 2011:   Yorke Peninsula
checklist

3 — 22 September 2011: Strzelecki Track, Outback Checklist of species seen

10 — 17 July 2011: Alice Springs
checklist of species seen

13 — 28 May 2011: Gulf Country
Cairns--Karumba-Burketown-Cloncurry-Mt Isa -Hughenden
Checklist of species seen, bird notes and photos


Gulf of Carpentaria tour checklist 14 — 27 May 2011
Gulf of Carpentaria 2011 trip bird notes
Gulf of Carpentaria tour 2011 photos
Gulf of Carpentaria tour 2011 vegetation photos

Private tour Melbourne—Chiltern—Deniliquin—Ouyen—Mildura
22 —26 April 2011

Private trip to Gloucester Tops NP & Munghorn Gap 13 — 18 November 2010


rufous scrubbird  13 November 2010                          P Maher

rock warbler Munghorn Gap NR 18 November 2010  P Maher

 

Strzelecki outback trip checklist, September 2010
Strzelecki outback 2010 trip report
Botanical notes on the 2010 Strzelecki Track tour
2010 Strzelecki outback tour vegetation and landscape photos (1)
2010 Strzelecki outback tour vegetation and landscape photos (2)
2010 Strzelecki outback tour bird photos
2010 Strzelecki outback tour mammal, reptile, amphibian and insect photos
2010 Strzelecki outback tour people photos
AOS YouTube channel

Some notes on the Alice Springs birding tour
Some photos from the Alice Springs tour
Alice Springs birding tour    11 — 15 July 2010 checklist of birds seen


grey honeyeater  Alice Springs   9 July 2010             P Maher

Top End birding tour  23 June to 6 July 2010  checklist of birds seen
Photos Top End 23 June to 6 July 2010
Notes on some species seen on Top End tour 23 June to 6 July 2010

Thailand 2010 checklist of species seen Trip report: Thailand 2010 photos being added slowly Na Hin district of Laos     3 — 8 March 2010, reconnaissance report

Southwest Western Australia tour photos January— February 2010
Southwest Western Australia checklist of species seen on the January—February 2010 tour

Notes on a personal tour with the Hedderwicks (UK) in the
Deniliquin area and the Victorian mallee 21, 22 & 23 November 2009

Eight-day personal tour for Josep del Hoyo and  Alejandro Sánche  23 to 31 October 2009

Seven-day personal tour with a Swedish group 5 to 11 October 2009

Strzelecki Outback Tours August and September 2009 Checklist of bird, mammal, reptile and butterfly species seen on the August and September 2009 Strzelecki Track inland Tours Overview of the Sunbird 2009 inland tour Wim Vader's bird observations primarily made on the Sunbird inland tour 8 to 26 September 2009 but also some Victorian observations made prior and post the inland tour Wim Vader’s botanical observations on the Sunbird inland tour 8 to 26 September  2009

1 to 5 July 2009 Alice Springs checklist of birds seen

click the dusky grasswren to see other Alice Springs tour photographs

13 to 26 June 2009 Top End checklist of birds seen

click the white-throatedgrasswrens to see other Top End tour photographs

Vietnam April 2009 checklist of species seen

Thailand May 2009 checklist of species seen

Tasmanian bird and mammal tour 22 to 28 February 2009 checklist of species seen

2008 plains-wanderer weekends' checklist of species seen

some photographs of August and September 2008 Strzelecki/Outback tours

Strzelecki/Outback tours 10 — 28 August 2008
& 6 — 24 September 2008 checklists

New Caledonia tour 27 July - 1 August 2008
checklist

Some photos from the New Caledonian tour
27 July - 2 August 2008

Top End July 2008
checklist

Some photos from the Top End trip July 08




Gulf country 21 June — 2 July 2008 checklist

Some photos from the Gulf Country tour June 2008

25 February to 2 March 2008 Tasmanian bird and mammal tour

2007 Plains-wanderer Weekends
24 & 25 November 2007
01 & 02 December 2007
15 & 16 December 2007
29 & 30 December 2007

Central Coast of NSW tour November 2007 checklist

New Caledonia October 2007 private birding tour checklist

August & September 2007 Strzelecki Track Outback trip checklist

Part I of Thailand trip report
Part II Thailand trip report

list of reptiles seen Thailand 2007

list of mammals seen in Thailand 2007

Checklist of species seen on the April 07 Thailand tour

South-west Western Australia checklist of species seen February—March 2007

Checklist of species seen on Tasmania 2007 tour

Checklist of species seen 25/26 November, 2/3 December & 9/10 December PW weekends

checklist New Caledonia July 2006

reconnaissance trip report Central Coast of NSW   10—23 March 2006

checklist Tasmania birding and mammal tour 5 to 11 February 2006

checklist Strzelecki Track outback trip 08-26 August 2005

checklist of birds seen New Caledonia birding tour 3-9 July 2005

trip report Gulf Country Tour 18 to 29 May 2005
Georgetown -Karumba - Gregory River - Cloncurry - Mt Isa

checklist Gulf Country Tour 18 to 29 May 2005
Georgetown -Karumba - Gregory River - Cloncurry - Mt Isa

checklist Tasmania birding & mammal tour 9 - 15 March 2005

checklist: Strzelecki Track Outback trip 29 July - 16 August 2004

checklist: Strzelecki Track Outback trip 20 August - 7 Sept 2004

checklist of species seen on a reconnaisance trip to New Caledonia 17-23 July 2004

checklist of species seen on a reconnaissance trip for Carpentarian and Kalkadoon grasswrens
in the Mt Isa area 10 - 14 June 2004

trip report Darwin. Kakadu NP & Kununurra 22 June - 6 July 2004

Kay Hahnes Darwin Kakadu NP & Kununurra trip 2004 report and poems

trip report mallee parks and reserves of Victoria and South Australia   April  2004

checklist of species seen on birding trip to mallee parks of Victoria & South Australia   April  2004

trip report Tasmanian birding and mammal tour March 2004

checklist of species seen on the Tasmanian birding and mammal trip March 2004

species recorded on Gulf country trip July 2003

species recorded on New Zealand trip November 2002