Choose your next birding adventure

with Bellbird Birding Tours

Bellbird Birding Tours (formerly Southern Birding Services) specialises in top-quality small-group birding trips throughout Australia and beyond, led by passionate and experienced professional tour leaders.

We offer a selection of scheduled tours as well as the option to tailor-make a private tour to suit your needs. Check what's on offer below!

Choose your next birding adventure

with Bellbird Birding Tours

We offer a selection of scheduled tours as well as the option to tailor-make a private tour to suit your needs. Check what's on offer below!

Choose your next birding adventure

with Bellbird Birding Tours

We offer a selection of scheduled tours as well as the option to tailor-make a private tour to suit your needs. Check what's on offer below!

Choose your next birding adventure

with Bellbird Birding Tours

We offer a selection of scheduled tours as well as the option to tailor-make a private tour to suit your needs. Check what's on offer below!

Our tours
Bellbird Tours specialises in quality small-group birding trips in Australia and beyond, led by experienced tour leaders. We offer a wide selection of scheduled tours or can tailor-make a private tour to suit your needs.

Guiding
Let our professional bird guides take you out birding for a morning, day or weekend. Gluepot Reserve, Queensland tropics, the Tasmanian wilderness, around all cities, we can arrange bird guiding at competitive rates.

Our Services
Let Bellbird Tours design and lead your personalised tour through our trip planning service. Our Beds & Birds packages offer carefully selected accommodations in key birding locations combined with a short guided birding trip.

Regions
Bellbird Tours has Australia covered! Some of the world’s best birding sites: East Coast & Ranges, Kimberley/Broome, Outback, Red Centre, Southern Australia, South-West, Tasmania and Queensland Tropics, all have beautiful and interesting birds!

Bellbird Tours – Australia’s Birding Specialist

Australia is one of the world’s top birding destinations with over 800 species including more endemics than any other country. Some of the very best birding sites in the world can be found in Australia, as well as some of the most beautiful and interesting birds. With a vast array of amazing landscapes, good infrastructure and a sense of adventure, it’s no surprise more and more birders explore Australia.

Bellbird Birding Tours (formerly Southern Birding Services) specialises in top-quality small-group birding trips throughout Australia and beyond. Scheduled tours with regular departures and fully customizable privately guided tours of any duration are led by our passionate and experienced professional guides.

Let us guide your next birding trip in search of Megapodes and Thornbills; Lyrebirds and Parrots; Grasswrens and Fairy-wrens; Frogmouths and rare raptors; Quail-thrushes and Pittas; migratory waders from the far east; Bowerbirds, Honeyeaters, Monarchs, Finches…. an unforgettable birding experience awaits!

Surrounding Australia are the tropical regions of South-east Asia which can be easily, cheaply and safely accessed and where tropical rainforests and cool mountain ranges add a whole new suite of birds, including Broadbills, Trogons, Hornbills, Woodpeckers and many more.

We have Australia (and its neighbours) covered. All our scheduled tours have regular departures and are also available as private tours. In that case, we can adjust any itinerary to suit your wish-list and we are also happy to design a custom tour from scratch for you. Please browse our website to see what’s on offer, and we hope to see you soon!

Chestnut-breasted Whiteface & Grey Honeyeater expedition

Chestnut-breasted Whiteface
Grey Honeyeater
Dusky & Thick-billed Grasswren
Rufous-crowned Emu-wren
Zebra & Painted Finch
Gibberbird, Orange Chat
Cinnamon Quail-thrush
Chiming Wedgebill

Princess Parrot Expedition

Princess Parrot!
+ many other good species.

Savannah to Tropics Birding Tour

Spotted Dove, Brown Cuckoo-Dove, Common Bronzewing
Flock Bronzewing, Crested Pigeon, Spinifex Pigeon, Squatter Pigeon
Diamond Dove, Peaceful Dove, Bar-shouldered Dove, Tawny Frogmouth
Spotted Nightjar, Australian Owlet-nightjar, Australasian Darter
Great Cormorant, Little Black Cormorant, Pied Cormorant
Australian Pelican, Black-necked Stork, White-necked Heron, Great Egret
Intermediate Egret and more

Tropical & Far North Queensland Birding Tour

Southern Cassowary
Golden, Tooth-billed Bowerbird
Grey-headed Robin, Rainbow Pitta
Partridge Pigeon, Great-billed Heron
Double-eyed Fig-parrot
Blue-faced Parrot-finch
Lesser Sooty Owl, Papuan Frogmouth
White-eared, Pied Monarch
Spectacled, Black-faced Monarch
Emerald Dove, Little Kingfisher
MacLeay's, Yellow Honeyeater
Black Noddy, Black-naped Tern
Red Goshawk, Eclectus Parrot
Golden-shouldered Parrot
Mangrove Robin, Frill-necked Monarch
Fawn-breasted Bowerbird, Palm Cockatoo
Northern Scrubrobin, Marbled Frogmouth
Trumpet Manucode, White-faced Robin
Yellow-billed and Little Kingfisher
Buff-breasted Paradise-kingfisher
and many more.

New Zealand Birding Tour

Flesh-footed & Fluttering Shearwater, Black Petrel, White-fronted Tern, Long Tailed Cuckoo, Yellow Crowned Parakeet, Tomtit
Giant Petrel, Cape petrel, Salvin’s Albatross, Blue Duck, Brown Teal, Kokako, Black Stilt, NZ Pipit, NZ Falcon
Little Spotted Kiwi, Saddleback, Red Crowned Parakeet, North Island Robin
Bellbird, Whitehead, Brown Teal, Kokako, Fernbird , Takahe and Riflemen
Fiordland Crested Penguin, Yellow-eyed Penguin, South Island Robin, Kaka, Weka, Yellowhead, Brown Creeper, Northern Royal Albatross
and many more!