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Daintree River Wild Watch offers you an early morning bird-watching tour experience.
Not only is it a special time on the river that only early mornings can offer, but it is the optimum opportunity for some great bird-watching and photography.
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Duration: 2 hours
Starts: Cairns, Australia
Trip Category: Cruises, Sailing & Water Tours >> Day Cruises
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Daintree River Wild Watch offers you an early morning bird-watching tour experience.
Not only is it a special time on the river that only early mornings can offer, but it is the optimum opportunity for some great bird-watching and photography.
You will board our comfortable open top 10 seater boat with individual swivel seats, and be offered a pair of good quality binoculars for use during the trip.
When we depart from the Daintree Village Jetty, your expert guide will introduce you to a variety of ecosystems along the main river and smaller tributaries looking for rare birds, snakes, crocodiles and some of the unique plants that grow in the ancient Daintree Rainforest.
On return a species list is available of all the birds and animals seen during the trip.
Species often found include the Great- Billed Heron (
Ardea sumatrana), Black Bittern (
Lxobrychus minutes) when in season, Nankeen Night Heron (
Nycticorax caledonicus), Papuan Frogmouth (
Podargus Papuensis), Double-Eyed Fig Parrot (
Psittaculirostris Diophthalma), Wompoo Fruit-Dove (
Ptilinopus magnificus), Shining Flycatcher (
Myiagra cyanoleuca), Large-billed Gerygone (
Gerygone magnirostris), Yellow bellied Sunbird – (Olive backed) (
Nectrinia jugularis), just to name a few…as there are too many to mention.
