Australia: Tasmania

• Spectacular scenery and pristine forest at Mt Field National Park
• Spend a couple of days birding on Bruny Island to look for all 12 of Tasmania’s endemics, including the flightless giant Tasmanian Native-Hen
• Evening/night excursion to search for marsupials including quolls, pademelons and potoroos!
• Peter Murrell Reserve
• Superb country of excellent infrastructure and hospitable people

Tour Overview

Tasmania encompasses a wide variety of habitats and climates. The Victorian countryside seems reassuringly familiar due to two centuries of European settlement, but wildlife is specifically Australian. Large flocks of exotic parrots feed on the highway verges and multicolored fairy-wrens and honeyeaters fill the woods, while kangaroos graze in the paddocks. Tasmania holds many endemics, among them some fascinating birds, even flightless ones such as the Tasmanian Native Hen.