Tasmania Birding Tour, Australia

Tasmanian Birdwatching Tour, Australia

This 3-day Tasmania Birding Tour, Australia which is moderately paced available on request features the landscapes, wildlife, and birdlife in the northeast corner of the island.

Although the focus of days two and three of this tour is north-east Tasmania’s birdlife, on day one, we visit the alpine peaks of Ben Lomond National Park. We take time to relax, enjoy a campfire dinner and hang out with the local forester kangaroo mob. After dark, up to another five species of marsupials will join you at the campfire or graze close by in this Tasmania birding tour.

This Tasmania birding tour will take you to Tasmania which has twelve endemic bird species and is one of Australia’s best birding destinations as many can be viewed without travelling long distances. Bushie and Ben use their local knowledge when visiting the beautiful flora and fauna-rich landscapes of northeast Tasmania to supply specialist birding experiences. The region's coastal heathlands, lush pastures, diverse forests, and waterways are home to numerous bird species. Eleven of Tasmania’s endemic species are known to habitat north-east Tasmania.

During this Tasmania birding tour, we visit Mt. William National Park where long white beach strolls are on offer. The coastal scrub in this region is known to be home to over 100 bird species. We visit inland waterways to view the elusive and fascinating platypus, rails, and waders. In our travels around the backroads of north-east Tasmania, there are always roadside discoveries like echidnas and reptiles in the warmer months.

Your accommodation on your stay in north-east Tasmania is Beulah Heritage Accommodation in Scottsdale. This boutique bed and breakfast has two queens and one twin king single ensuite room. The room configurations allow us to accommodate up to six passengers on tour and utilising two 4WD vehicles and guides in this Tasmania birding tour.

This Tasmania birding tour can be a short-break fully guided tour away from a longer self-drive tour of Tasmania. Or maybe a quick visit from mainland Australia to fly in and fly out for the experience. We are happy to provide or organise pre and post-tour transfers from and to the Launceston Airport or Launceston city.

Tasmania birding tour Highlights include:

Ben Lomond National Park – spectacular Tolkien landscape
Landscapes - coastal heathlands, lush pastures, diverse forests, and waterways
Mt William National Park and Bridport coastal area – known to have over 100 bird species
Campfire dinner with the forester kangaroos and nocturnal wildlife tour
Private charter tour which allows flexibility with program options

If you’d like to try an alternative tour, look at what this Tasmania Wildlife Tour, Australia has to offer.

Alternative Tour Name: Birdwatching Tours Tasmania - Northern Tasmania

Day 1

Day 1 - Birding & Nocturnal Wildlife Tour

Self-drive to Scottsdale or Pepper Bush transfer from Launceston. Lunch own arrangements.

Depart Scottsdale after lunch - 12.00 – 2.00 pm (seasonal) we firstly hunt for the fascinating platypus before exploring an array of forests and bird habitats to discover a variety of forest and woodland birds on the way to the Tyne Valley.

Campfire dinner - with the forester kangaroos as your dinner companions, enjoy the ambience of campfire dining with a 4-course dinner consisting of Tasmanian tasting platter of cheeses and smoked meats followed by wallaby mountain burgers and native spiced salmon with dessert to finish. Settle back and relax with a Tassie beer or wine and watch the sun set and see our field of dreams come alive.

The Wildlife - You will be delighted and enchanted while sitting by the campfire as the wildlife appear at dusk. Forester kangaroos, eastern quolls, Tasmanian pademelons and brush-tail

possums feed near the campfire while Bennett’s wallabies and wombats graze close by. At times, platypus, tawny frogmouths, bandicoots, and owls can also be viewed. Return to your accommodation at Scottsdale 7.00-11.00 pm (seasonal). Your nocturnal travels back to Scottsdale may also reveal tawny frogmouths and southern boobooks.

Overnight: Beulah Heritage B&B

Dinner: Campfire dinner on tour

Day 2

Day 2 – Birdwatching – Forest, Woodland & Coastal

Depart your accommodation around 9.30 am. A flexible day of Tasmanian birding based on your interests. We can visit inland waterways, coastal reserves, or a variety of forest types.

The Scottsdale region offers a range of bird habitats - great diversity in proximity. We explore waterways, tall forests with undergrowth, open native eucalypt forests, plantations, farmlands and rolling hills. These areas are home to wrens, honeyeaters, robins, whistlers, parrots, thornbills, raptors, waterfowl, waders, fantails and many more. Eleven of Tasmania’s twelve endemic species are known to habitat in north-east Tasmania.

Birds are abundant in Mt William National Park with honey eaters, wrens, robins, finches, and pardalotes found in the park. It is also home to yellow tailed cockatoos, harriers, white bellied sea eagles and wedge-tail eagles. Like Mt William, the Bridport Coastal Reserve and surrounding areas are also known to be home to over 100 bird species including endemics, green rosella, yellow wattlebird, and yellow throated honeyeaters.

Overnight: Beulah Heritage B&B

Dinner: In-house at Beulah

Day 3

Day 3 – Birding – Inland Waterways & Coastal

Depart your accommodation around 9.00 am. Another flexible day of Tasmanian birding based on your interests. We can visit inland waterways on the outskirts of Scottsdale to view the local rail and wader species.

From Scottsdale we travel to the coastal town of Bridport to see what the regions local beachside scrub can offer. This area is known to be habitat to over one hundred bird species.

Overnight: Beulah Heritage B&B

Dinner: In-house at Beulah

Day 4

Day 4 – Departure

After breakfast - self-drive or Pepper Bush Adventures arranged departure

Wildlife species expected to see:

Birds and wildlife viewed are reliant on how much time is allocated to a particular species. Below are species that are known to habitat our tour destinations in north-east Tasmania.

Day 1 & 2 – Roadside discoveries
Platypus, short-beaked echidna, emu, Cape Barron goose & reptiles in the summer months

Day 1 – Pepper Bush wildlife venue
Forester kangaroos, bare-nosed wombats, Tasmanian pademelons, Bennett’s wallabies, brushtail possums, eastern quoll; Tasmanian native hens and forest birds; After dark birds – tawny frogmouth, southern boobook

Day 1 & 2 – Birds in north-east forests and coastal scrubland areas
Brown quail, wedge-tailed and white bellied sea eagles; swamp harriers, brown and grey goshawks; sulphur-crested cockatoo and yellow-tailed black cockatoo; spotted and straited pardalote; black-headed, crescent and new holland honeyeaters; spotted quail-thrush, olive and golden whistlers; grey currawong; skylark, Richard’s pipit, beautiful firetail, robins and finches; silvereyes and bassian thrush
Endemics: Tasmanian native hen, green rosella, dusky robin, Tasmanian thornbill, scrubtit, Tasmanian scrubwren, yellow wattlebird, yellow-throated honey eater, strong-billed honeyeater, black currawong, migratory species
Endemics: Tasmanian native hen, green rosella, dusky robin, Tasmanian thornbill, scrubtit, Tasmanian scrubwren, yellow wattlebird, yellow-throated honey eater, strong-billed honeyeater, black currawong,

Day 2 – Inland local waterways
Platypus – numerous species of waterfowl, herons, egrets, coots, cormorants, and black swans; Australasian and hoary-headed grebes; purple swamp hens and Tasmanian native hens

Day 2 – Mount William National Park marsupials & seaside birds
Bennett’s wallabies, Tasmanian pademelons, wombats, gulls, and Australian pelicans; terns & oystercatchers

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2	3100	6200
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Tasmania Birding Tour, Australia - 3 Days