Whoever is first to book for a particular day gets to choose the starting time
    (anywhere between 5.00am and 9.00am)

Our usual route:

From Brisbane we head south to O'Reilly's Rainfores Rereat in Lamington National Park, often with a couple of brief stops along the way to view birds or have a cup of tea/coffee/other.

The rainforests here are easily accessible with well-maintained walking trails. They harbour many species, including regent and satin bowerbirds, green catbird, paradise riflebird, Albert's  lyrebird, noisy pitta, eastern whipbird, Lewin's honeyeater, monarch flycatchers, scrubwens, crimson rosella, wompoo and rose-crowned fruit pigeons, brush turkey and many, many more.  Also nearby are wetlands (which can include great and intermediate egrets, glossy ibis, white-necked heron, royal and yellow-billed spoonbills, black-winged stilts, whistling ducks, black swans, Australasian grebes, cormorants, darters, pelicans, purple swamp hen, comb-crested jacana,  magpie geese, black-necked stork, many others) and eucalypt forests (several honeyeaters, fairy-wrens, Australian magpie, butcherbirds, olive-backed oriole, magpie lark, laughing kookaburra and other kingfishers, eastern and pale-headed rosellas, rainbow and scaly-breasted lorikeets, fan-tailed cuckoo and many more).

On our way back to Brisbane we visit Eagleby Wetlands, which harbour several lagoons plus an easy walk through surrounding woodland.  We see a changing array of birds here since many of our waterbirds are nomadic, as are some of our honeyeaters and fruit-eating species, moving around according to where the best resources are. We usually see Australian pelican, little pied cormorant, little black cormorant, Australian darter, black swan, wood duck, Pacific black duck, grey teal, hardhead, Australasian grebe, Eurasian coot, dusky moorhen, Ausralasian swamphen, masked lapwing, Eastern great egret, intermediate egret, cattle egret,royal spoonbill,  Australian white ibis, straw-necked ibis,little corella cockatoo, rainbow lorikeet, laughing kookaburra, striated pardaote, brown honeyeater, redbacked fairy-wren and grey fantail. With a bit of luck we also see black-ncked stork, osprey, white-bellied sea eagle, brahminy kite, whistling kite, magpie goose, comb-crested jacana, red-necked avocet, pale-headed rosella, buff-banded rail, sacred kingfisher, forest kingfisher, pink-eared duck, scarlet honeyeater, blue-faced honeyeater, golden whistler and various others.

Not all species will be seen on any particular day, and some will only be seen in certain seasons (e.g. channel-billed cuckoo, common koel and dollar bird are summer visitors only).
Your main guide will be Dr Ronda Green, who has conducted extensive research over the years in bird behaviour and ecology in Australian forests, especially those of south-east Queensland, and her son Darren Green, a keen amateur naturalist.
 
You may like to assist our research on dispersers of rainforest seeds by helping us find out what the fruit-eating birds are feeding on and where they spend their time when not feeding. We also contribute sightings, especially of less common species, to online databases, and send information to researchers studying particular species.

We take a variety of guests on this tour, from complete novices to experienced birders. So that we can plan the best experience for you (and since our group size is small enough to do this) let us know at your time of booking whether your primary interests are:

• learning about Australian or south-east Queensland birds and their ecology and behaviour
  
• photographing birds
• seeing as many bird species as possible (NOTE: we don't specialise in adding to life-lists as much as some operators do, our emphasis being more on ecology and behaviour of birds)
  
• seeing particular species (no guarantees that we can find them all but we can try where possible - warning: a few are almost impossible with a one-day tour)
• learning about birdwatching techniques
  
• interacting with birds (we don't normally feed birds on ecotours but there is one long-standing and well-regulated parrot-feeding experience you can participate in at O'Reilly's if you wish),
• simply spending time in beautiful forests, with birds as just part of a memorable experience.
• seeing some other wildlife in addition to birds
  
• spending a day birding and then being left at either Binna Burra or O'Reilly's to spend a night or more next to the rainforests and extensive walking trails of  Lamington National Park (both have wonderful guest lodges and camp grounds)
  
• (also tell us if you would prefer no children on the tour on the day you are booking for, or whether you have children who would like to join in