It's Birdwatching time in Daintree

Go early, go with a guide for safety and go often. It's birdwatching time in Daintree.

Daintree birdwatching guides are reporting frequent sightings of Great-billed Herons, Black Bitterns, Papuan Frogmouths and Buff-breasted Paradise-Kingfishers.

The Daintree Bird Walk starts again soon.

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Daintree River Birdwatching features in new Book

Best 100 birdwatching sites in Australia - Sue Taylor

Daintree River Cruise rates as # 24

Sue Taylor visited Daintree about 12 years ago as she was researching her first bird book - How Many Birds is That.

More on Daintree's birds >

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Daintree Birdwatching App

Port Douglas Daintree Birdwatching App

A NEW birdwatching chapter has been added to the 

Port Douglas Daintree Discovery Guide App.

Find all the details here....

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Reservoir Road, Wonga Beach

Lovely Fairy-wrens.
Consistently calling halfway up Reservoir Road Wonga Beach on the left hand side. Reservoir Road is near the Caltex Servo  but on the other side of the main road about 300 metres toward Mossman.

Sounds of Spring

The Daintree Valley is resonating to the melodious morning song of the Black Butcherbirds this Spring. It is punctuated by the calls of Brush Cuckoos and Little Bronze-cuckoos throughout the day and Bush Stone-curlews through the night.

Cicadabird calling at Wonga Beach

There is a Cicadabird calling from near Marlin Drive and Janbal Street. Also calling early mornings Little Bronze-cuckoo and Brush Cuckoo.




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Pacific Baza at Wonga Beach

There is a vocal Pacific Baza near the intersection of Marlin Drive and Oleander Drive Wonga Beach. 
It is likely to be with others and may hang around for a few days.

Enjoy.





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Port Douglas Daintree Birdwatching App

Daintree does not have full mobile coverage and so this native app is exactly what you need to get visitor information during your visit here. It works on iPhone, iPad, iPod, Android phones and Android tablets. US$2.99 from the App Stores.

NEW Release for birdwatchers >

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Daintree Birdwatching App

Just released:
Daintree Birdwatching App for iPhone, iPad and Android phones and tablets.
It is in the Port Douglas & Daintree Discovery Guide available from the
 App Store and Google Play.

This App works in areas without mobile reception.

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First signs of Spring

This morning at dawn I heard a Brush Cuckoo. The Brush Cuckoo is usually the second migratory bird species to arrive in early spring. It will be interesting to see if it stays around or continues on it's southerly journey. On the subject of migrating cuckoos, Pheasant Coucals are also being heard in the upper Daintree as they move away after being dis-lodged by the sugar cane harvest.

Keep an eye on the birds identified on the almost daily 

Daintree Bird Walk

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