Chris Dahlberg's Daintree River Tours

Tour Details

Operator

About Daintree wildlife with Chris Dahlberg

Destinations

Daintree and Daintree River

Departs From

Daintree Village jetty

Tour Description

See and hear Daintree's magical wildlife with Chris Dahlberg by boat on the Daintree River at daybreak. In just two hours Chris will show you an average of 50 wildlife species, a feat that cannot be done later in the day. The wildlife seen and heard on your tour is listed on the internet before lunch time and stays there as a momento for ever and for research purposes.

Some of the wildlife species seen include:

Saltwater Crocodile, Green Tree Snake, Eastern Water Dragon, Spectacled Flying-fox, Little Red Flying-fox, Orange-footed Scrubfowl, Australian Brush-turkey, Darter, Little Pied Cormorant, Great Cormorant, Little Black Cormorant, Magpie Goose, Wandering Whistling-Duck, Pacific Black Duck, Green Pygmy-goose, Bush-hen, Dusky Moorhen, Purple Swamphen, Great-billed Heron, White-faced Heron, Cattle Egret, Great Egret, Little Egret, Intermediate Egret, Striated Heron, Nankeen Night Heron, Black Bittern, Glossy Ibis, Australian White Ibis, Straw-necked Ibis, Royal Spoonbill, Black-necked Stork, Common Sandpiper, Latham's Snipe, Bush Stone-curlew, Masked Lapwing, Black-fronted, Dotterel, Osprey, Black-shouldered Kite, Black Kite, Whistling Kite, Brahminy Kite, White-bellied Sea-Eagle, Peregrine Falcon, Swamp Harrier, Wompoo Fruit-dove, Pied Imperial Pigeon, Brown Cuckoo-Dove, Top-knot Pigeon, Bar-shouldered Dove, Emerald Dove, Sulphur-crested Cockatoo, Rainbow Lorikeet, Double-eyed Fig-Parrot, Brush Cuckoo, Gould's Bronze-Cuckoo, Common Koel, Channel-billed Cuckoo, Pheasant Coucal, Papuan Frogmouth, White-rumped Swiftlet, Fork-tailed swift, White-throated Needletail, Azure Kingfisher, Little Kingfisher, Laughing Kookaburra, Blue-winged Kooaburra, Forest Kingfisher, Sacred Kingfisher, Buff-breasted Paradise-Kingfisher, Dollarbird, Lovely Fairy-wren, Large-billed Gerygone
Little Friarbird, Noisy Friarbird, Helmeted Friarbird, Macleay's Honeyeater, Yellow-spotted Honeyeater, Graceful Honeyeater, Brown-backed Honeyeater, Dusky Honeyeater, Little Shrike, thrush, Willie Wagtail, Leaden Flycatcher, Shining Flycatcher, Spectacled Monarch, Pied Monarch, Magpie Lark, Spangled Drongo, Yellow Oriole, Olive-backed Oriole, Figbird, Spotted Catbird, Black-faced Cuckoo-shrike, Barred Cuckoo-shrike,Cicadabird, Varied Triller,White-breasted Woodswallow, Black Butcherbird, Welcome Swallow, Tree Martin
Tawny Grassbird, Richard's Pipit, Australian Reed-Warbler, Golden-headed Cisticola, Chestnut-breasted Mannikin, Yellow-bellied Sunbird, Mistletoebird, Silvereye, Metallic Starling.

Chris Dahlberg's Daintree River Tours is the only Daintree tour recommended by the Lonely Planet's prestigeous "Watching Wildlife Australia" book.