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Upcoming tours

Sydney Birding runs bespoke tours, on demand. We also run ad-hoc tours on short notice in response to exciting bird discoveries in and around Sydney. Get in touch if any of the below tours interests you or if there's something special you want to track down with us.

Where are these places anyway?

Tour regions map

Oh the places we've been!

Past tours

2019

2019 saw trips to all of these places! Below are just some of the highlights!

• Far North Coast highlights - Albert's Lyrebird, Pacific Emerald Dove, Bush Stone-curlew, Black-necked Stork, Comb-crested Jacana, Russet-tailed Thrush
• Port Macquarie highlights - Noisy Pitta, Varied Triller
• Gloucester Tops highlights - Olive Whistler, Rufous Scrub-bird, Paradise Riflebird, Grey Goshawk, Restless Flycatcher
• Old Bar highlights - Aleutian Tern, Red-backed Fairywren, Brahminy Kite, Forest Raven, Greater Sand-plover, Lesser Sand-plover, Sanderling, Far Eastern Curlew, Whimbrel, Tawny Frogmouth (rufous morph), Rainbow Bee-eater, White-cheeked Honeyeater, Pheasant Coucal, Australian Tern
• Central Coast and Newcastle highlights - Banded Stilt, Curlew Sandpiper, Regent Bowerbird, Mangrove Gerygone, Black-tailed Godwit, Spotted Quailthrush, Tufted Honeyeater, Swift Parrot, Magpie Goose
• Tamworth Region highlights - Crimson Chat, White-backed Swallow, Cockatiel, Pallid Cuckoo, Spotted Harrier, Apostlebird, Wedge-tailed Eagle, Brown Falcon, Black-shouldered Kite, Barn Owl, Red-winged Parrot, Brown Treecreeper, Speckled Warbler, White-bellied Cuckooshrike, Varied Sittella, Hooded Robin
• Capertee highlights - Regent Honeyeater, White-browed Woodswallow, Masked Woodswallow, Turquoise Parrot, Spiny-cheeked Honeyeater, Black-chinned Honeyeater, Speckled Warbler, Southern Whiteface, White-browed Babbler, White-winged Triller, Pied Butcherbird, Hooded Robin, Jacky Winter, Double-barred Finch
• Blue Mountains highlights - Grey Currawong, Flame Robin, Scarlet Robin, Red-browed Treecreeper, Crescent Honeyeater, Large-billed Scrubwren, Crested Shriketit, Golden Whistler, House Sparrow :)
• NW Sydney highlights - Black-eared Cuckoo, Wandering Whistling-duck, Australasian Shoveler, Pink-eared Duck, Blue-billed Duck, Great Crested Grebe, Peaceful Dove, White-winged Chough, Common Sandpiper, Shining Bronze-cuckoo, Horsfield's Bronze-cuckoo, Banded Lapwing, Pectoral Sandpiper, Rufous Songlark, Painted Buttonquail, White-throated Gerygone, Weebill, Scarlet Honeyeater, Whiskered Tern, Australasian Bittern, Glossy Ibis, Yellow-billed Spoonbill, Black Kite, Little Lorikeet, Cicadabird, Australasian Bushlark, Golden-headed Cisticola, Little Grassbird, Scaly-breasted Munia, Zebra Finch, Chestnut-breasted Mannikin
• NE Sydney highlights - Barking Owl, Beach-stone Curlew, Grey Plover, Black Bittern, White-cheeked Honeyeater, Grey Goshawk, Eastern Osprey, Scarlet Honeyeater, Eastern Whipbird
• SW Sydney highlights - Little Curlew, Baillon's Crake, Little Eagle, Hoary-headed Grebe, Australian Owlet-nightjar, Black-fronted Dotterel, Wood Sandpiper, Straw-necked Ibis, Peregrine Falcon, Swift Parrot, Striated Pardalote, Tree Martin, Restless Flycatcher, Brown Songlark
• SE Sydney highlights - Hudsonian Godwit, Kentish Plover, Brown Quail, Southern Emu-wren, Sooty Tern, White-throated Needletail, Chestnut-rumped Heathwren, Pacific Golden-plover, Sharp-tailed Sandpiper, Double-banded Plover, Ruddy Turnstone, Bar-tailed Godwit, Red-necked Stint, Common Sandpiper, Pale-headed Rosella, Australian Pied Oystercatcher, Sooty Oystercatcher, White-fronted Tern, Little Tern, Fairy Tern, Shy Albatross, Yellow-nosed Albatross, Black-browed Albatross, Short-tailed Shearwater, Wedge-tailed Shearwater, Swamp Harrier, Grey Goshawk, Variegated Fairywren, Superb Fairywren, Sooty Owl, Australian Hobby, Nankeen Kestrel, Rockwarbler, Tawny Grassbird, Mistletoebird
• Shoalhaven highlights - Semipalmated Plover, Beach-stone Curlew, White-bellied Sea-eagle, Hudsonian Godwit, White-throated Needletail, Pied Stilt, Red-necked Avocet, Little Tern, Australian Tern, Red-capped Plover, Red Knot, Great Knot, Common Greenshank, Marsh Sandpiper, Fiary Tern, Yellow-tailed Black-cockatoo, White-fronted Chat, Eastern Bristlebird, Ground Parrot
• Barren Grounds and Jerrara Dam highlights - Rose-crowned Fruit-dove, Rose-ringed Parakeet, Gang-gang Cockatoo, Southern Emu-wren, White-headed Pigeon, Topknot Pigeon, Brown Cuckoo-dove, Green Catbird, Fan-tailed Cuckoo, Pilotbird, Eastern Bristlebird, Grey Shrikethrush, Beautiful Firetail
• Mallee Country highlights - Orange Chat, Crimson Chat, Spotted Bowerbird, Southern Scrub-robin, Southern Whiteface, Gilbert's Whistler, Chestnut-rumped Thornbill, White-fronted Honeyeater, Crested Bellbird, Red-capped Robin, Hooded Robin, White-winged Chough, Superb Parrot, Greater Bluebonnet, Cockatiel, Major Mitchell's Cockatoo, Apostlebird, Musk Duck, Chestnut Quailthrush, Grey-crowned Babbler, White-browed Babbler, Western Gerygone, Inland Thornbill, Shy Heathwren, Striped Honeyeater, Singing Honeyeater, Spiny-cheeked Honeyeater, Splendid Fairywren, White-winged Fairywren, Mulga Parrot, Australian Ringneck
• Leeton and Fivebough Swamp highlights - Australian Shelduck, Black-tailed Nativehen, Brolga, Australian Spotted Crake, Little Raven, Whiskered Tern, Glossy Ibis, Royal Spoonbill, Yellow-billed Spoonbill, Purple-backed Fairywren