Daintree River 2019
A great morning bird and wildlife spotting with Murray from the “ Daintree Boatman nature tours.”
Australia - Murray Hunt the Daintree Boatman
Daintree River tour with Murray Hunt the Daintree Boatman.
Australia May 2016: Daintree River Wildlife Watch
A Wildlife cruise on the Daintree River and Barratt Creek spotting Crocodiles and birds with a great sunset at the end. A fantastic couple of hours in good warm sunny weather. Thanks to Sauce from
Daintree River - An Everyday Love
Riding the Daintree River through the eyes of The Daintree Boatman - Murray Hunt
3] Daintree Rainforest - Australia
South Pacific adventure - Episode 3
Carny's Dance by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution licence (
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Australia Trip, Part 2 (of 3) - Queensland
This is the second of three movies of our 2019 trip to Australia:
1. Sydney (New South Wales), June 8-9
2. Cairns area (Queensland), June 10-14 -- This movie
3. Melbourne area (Victoria), June 15-17
This movie is a compilation of videos and photos from our four days in the Cairns area. Most images are of the bird life in the area, but there are a some of other wildlife. At the end of the movie there are photos and videos of places and people.
We loved our time in Queensland. It was so green, lush, and beautiful. One of the many highlights was our morning wildlife tour of the Daintree River with Murray Hunt of Daintree Boatman Nature Tours.
Here is a list of specific wildlife that you will see in this video. At the end of this list is an attempt at a table of contents.
MAMMALS
Agile Wallaby
Duck-billed Platypus
Long-Nosed Antechinus
Sugar Glider (possum)
REPTILES
Estuarine Crocodile (photo only)
Green Tree Snake (photo only)
INSECTS
Fire Ants
Ulysses (butterfly)
Union Jack (butterfly)
unknown butterfly/moth species
Zodiac Moth
BIRDS
1. Australian Brushturkey
2. Australian Figbird
3. Austrasian Darter
4. Azure Kingfisher
5. Bar-Shouldered Dove
6. Black Kite
7. Black-Faced Cuckooshrike
8. Black-Fronted Dotteral
9. Black-Necked Stork
10. Black-Shouldered Kite
11. Blue-Faced Honeyeater
12. Bower's Shrikethrush
13. Bridled Honeyeater
14. Brown-Cuckoo Dove
15. Buff-Banded Rail
16. Bush Thick-Knee (aka Bush Stone Curlew)
17. Cattle Egret
18. Comb-Crested Jacana
19. Dusky Myzomela
20. Eastern Whipbird (sound only)
21. Forest Kingfisher
22. Great-Billed Heron
23. Green Oriole
24. Helmeted Friarbird
25. Helmeted Guineafowl
26. Laughing Kookaburra
27. Leaden Flycatcher
28. Lewin's Honeyeater
29. Little Pied Cormorant
30. Little Shrikethrush
31. Olive-Backed Sunbird
32. Orange-Footed Scrubfowl
33. Pacific Black Duck
34. Papuan Frogmouth
35. Peaceful Dove
36. Rainbow Beeater
37. Rajah Shelduck
38. Red-Browed Firetail
39. Red-Capped Plover
40. Red-Tailed Black Cockatoo
41. Rufous Fantail
42. Shining Flycatcher
43. Spangled Drongo
44. Straw-Necked Ibis
45. Victoria's Riflebird
46. White-Bellied Sea Eagle
47. White-Breasted Woodswallow
48. White-Faced Heron
49. White-Throated Treecreeper
50. Willie Wagtail
CONTENTS
00:00 Title
00:12 Animals (Mammals)
01:09 Birds
01:55 Crocodile (photo only)
02:02 Birds
04:01 Butterflies
04:12 Birds
04:44 Snake (photo only)
04:50 Birds
07:55 On the Daintree River
to be completed
Daintree birdwatching - Nankeen Night Heron.
Chris Dahlberg's Daintree River Tours passengers photographing a Nankeen Night Heron at dawn.
The Daintree Rainforest: Waterfall Tour
Seeing the many waterfall's around Cairns in the Daintree Rainforest.
Australia - Great Bowerbird
Great Bowerbird
Murray Hunt, the Daintree Boatman, took us out on a day tour and we saw this wonderful bird.
VLOG- Work &Travel Australia - Waterfall Wanderers Tour - Tablelands
This amazing Tour is a must for all nature lovers. We've seen so many beautiful places and waterfalls.
Our tour guide took pictures all the time so if you don't want to take photos you'll get your unforgettable memories though.
Pick up time was at 07:30am and we got back at 07:00pm. So it was a hole day of pure adventure.
Daintree: Amazing Cassowary & Chicks
Late Sept 2009. Male Cassowary and two chicks at a little waterhole in Cape Tribulation. We were having a swin when we saw the Cassowaries approaching so we carefully backed off to the other side of the stream. It was amazing to see and apparently pretty rare!
Birding Australia 2011
Borderland Tours' birding trip to Australia
Movie and photos by JM and MW. All Rights Reserved.
Movie created using muvee Reveal. Music from iTunes.
Birdwatching Tips Australia 1
Introduction to Bird Watching dealing with observer behaviour.
Rainforest Fast Facts – Restoring the Daintree
As part of BioPak's 7.5% Give Back program, we donate 1 per cent of our profits to Rainforest Rescue and thereby contribute to the restoration of Lot 46, 27 hectares of Daintree Rainforest in Northern Queensland (Cape Tribulation).
Since 2010, we planted over 50,000 trees to regenerate this land and drive wildlife back into this now thriving habitat.
Learn more at rainforestrescue.org.au or biopak.com.au/give-back.
Video by Martin Stringer
Field Instruction in the Daintree Rain Forest
Field Instructor Paul O'Dowd explains the significance of the Cassowary to the diversity of the Daintree Rainforest.
Birding and wildlife in Australia's Northern Territory at Birdfair 2012
Interview with Fleur Burrows, regional manager of Tourism Northern Territory, at Birdfair 2012. Australia's Outback, the Northern Territory has a great array of wildlife and bird-watching opportunities, from the tropical wetlands of the Top End to the rugged desert landscapes of the Red Centre -- it is truly a birding paradise.
Learn more about bird watching in the Northern Territory-
Fogg Dam Sunday 22 Nov 2015, NT, Australia
Not much water in the Dam. Lots of birds. Egrets, Herons, Shore birds, Kingfishers, Ibis, Ducks, Geese, Crocks, Jacana
Kingfisher Park Birding Lodge
Australia's most beautiful mammal, Striped Possum , the prehistoric-looking Boyd's Forest Dragon and master-of-disguise Northern Leaf-tailed Gecko were just some of the highlights. Papuan Frogmouth was roosting in the orchard and about 15 species of forest bird each afternoon descended to drink at the creek. No trip to the Cairns region would be complete without dropping in to Kingfisher Park. It's one of the most famous birding lodges in Australia and with good cause. It's located in its own patch of rainforest, with a rich variety of birds, mammals, frogs and reptiles. There are many things you can see here that you would search fruitlessly for in other parts of the Atherton Tablelands. Our success had much to do with the hard work and dedication of owners Keith and Lindsay Fisher, who pain-stakingly search the grounds each day. Ask Keith what's around and what you'd like to see, and there is every chance he'll be able to help you. One of the real pleasures of being in a country with a wealth of nocturnal wildlife, is to go out spotlighting. The kids also enjoy it as they get to search for and see things that are normally hidden away during the day. We went out spotlighting with owner Keith Fisher, who can help anyone who stays at Kingfisher Park. The orchard provides a great focus. The smell of fermenting fruit is quite over-powering and it's a wonder the Spectacled Flying Foxes can even fly in a straight line after consuming them. The bird tables at reception are a good place to start about an hour after dark. Northern Brown Bandicoots , Bush Rat and if you're lucky (as we were), Giant White-tailed Rats , which are normally arboreal, descend to feed. Keith took us over the neighbouring park where three unfledged Barn Owls were sitting pretty in a big gum tree. A Sooty Owl called briefly later on. In the forest that's around the camping areas, there's a good chance of finding Northern Leaf-tailed Gecko but look hard. Although one of the largest geckos in Australia, they are perfectly blended against the tree bark. This is also where the Long-nosed Bandicoots live. They look like Bilbys, having pointy-ears and grey shiny fur. What I really wanted to see however, was Striped Possum . It has to be one of Australia's most beautiful animals. They are not uncommon but in winter, they can remain holed up for several nights in a row. We were lucky. Toward the end of the night, we heard the tell-tale movement high up in a tree and there he was looking down at us. Spotlighting is a great thing to do with the kids. Around the orchard, we challenged them to find Northern Dwarf Tree Frogs . They sit on the grasses around its edge but are only about a centimetre long. Visit the Kingfisher Park websiteView Wildiaries trip report
Birding SA
Another 'De Ecuador al mundo production'...a visual guide to Adelaidean birds...
People need to realise that we all share the same spirit that comes from God and from the earth.
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Victorian Twitchathon 2015
With the fabulous birder Michael, I raced in the Victorian Twitchathon to raise funds for BirdLife Australia's work with the mallee birds of Victoria. We started in the wet forest of the Otways at 6am, and over eight hours we raced up to the famous birding location of the Western Treatment Plant at Werribee. An exhilerating day of birding drama!
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William Tell Overutre performed by Frank Dill: