Australian birdwatchers! Has Covid-19 upended your planned trips?
Why not try to see some new birds within Australia.
Contact us for short, privately guided birding trips. Examples include:
- Central Qld for Opalton Grasswren, Rufous-crowned Emuwren, Hall's Babbler, Chestnut-breasted Quail-thrush
- SA outback for (nesting!) Grey Falcons, Grey/Eyrean/Thick-billed Grasswren, Yellow Chat
- Stuart Hwy (SA/NT) for Bourke's Parrot, Chestnut-breasted Whiteface, Thick-billed Grasswren
- Nullarbor (SA) for Nullarbor & Copperback Quail-thrush, Spotted Scrubwren, Naretha Bluebonnet
- Wet season trip up Cape York (Qld): Papuan Pitta, Eclectus Parrot, Palm Cockatoo, Yellow-billed Kingfisher.
- or send us your 'wish-list' for an obligation-free reality check!
Or, check out our tour calendar for our usual range of scheduled tours.
Choose your next birding adventure with BELLBIRD BIRDING TOURS.
Bellbird Birding Tours specialises in top-quality small-group birding trips throughout Australia and beyond, led by passionate and experienced professional guides. We offer a huge selection of small-group tours featuring both popular and little-known destinations and ranging from targeted birding trips to more relaxed birdwatching tours, bird photography and naturalist experiences. We also offer day guiding and the option to tailor-make a private tour to suit your needs. Check what's on offer below!
Or, check out our tour calendar for our usual range of scheduled tours.
Choose your next birding adventure with BELLBIRD BIRDING TOURS.
Bellbird Birding Tours specialises in top-quality small-group birding trips throughout Australia and beyond, led by passionate and experienced professional guides. We offer a huge selection of small-group tours featuring both popular and little-known destinations and ranging from targeted birding trips to more relaxed birdwatching tours, bird photography and naturalist experiences. We also offer day guiding and the option to tailor-make a private tour to suit your needs. Check what's on offer below!
Or, check out our tour calendar for our usual range of scheduled tours.
Latest News from Bellbird
- Coronavirus update: We require all our guests and guides to be fully vaccinated against covid-19. For other important information for your tours…..click here.
- Fuel surcharge: until further notice we now add a fuel surcharge to all our our tours, calculated (and to be paid) based on actual prices 2 weeks prior to departure.
- 2023 Tour Program out with a huge selection of both new and familiar birding tours…..more
- Extra departures scheduled of our Comfortable, slow-paced Grasswren tour by popular demand…..more
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!
Great East Coast Tour
- Southern Cassowary, Golden & Regent Bowerbirds, Superb Lyrebird
- Buff-breasted Paradise Kingfisher, Noisy Pitta & Victoria's Riflebird
- Satin Bowerbird, Albert's Lyrebird
- Chowchilla. Green Catbird, Rock-warbler
- Figbird, Gang-gang Cockatoo, Whitebellied Sea-eagle
- Tawny Frogmouth, Superb Fairy-wren, Satin Bowerbird
- Turquoise Parrot, Diamond Firetail, Hooded Robin
- Great-billed Heron, Papuan Frogmouth and many more...
Papuan Pitta Birding Tour
- Papuan Pitta, Buff-breasted Paradise Kingfisher and Black-winged Monarch
- Fawn-breasted Bowerbird, Black-eared Catbird
- Magnificent Riflebird, Trumpet Manucode
- Tropical Scrubwren, Tawny-breasted Honeyeater
- Eclectus Parrot, Palm Cockatoo, Northern Scrubrobin
- Yellow-billed Kingfisher, Green-backed Honeyeater
- & many more!
Mount Isa Grasswrens Short Birding and Photography Tour
- Comb-crested Jacana, Green Pygmy Goose
- Spinifexbird, Spinifex Pigeon, Painted Finch
- Pictorella Mannikin, Chestnut-breasted Munia
- Grey-headed Honeyeater, Little Woodswallow
- Paperbark Flycatcher, Spotted Bowerbird and many more
Kimberley Specials & Black Grasswren Birding Tour
- Black Grasswren, Partridge Pigeon Purple-crowned Fairy-wren
- Long-tailed and Crimson Finch, Northern Shrike-tit
- Banded, Bar-breasted, Yellow-tinted Honeyeater, Kimberley Honeyeater
- Buff-sided Robin, Chestnut-quilled Rock Pigeon
- Black-tailed Treecreeper, Green-backed Gerygone
- Sandstone Shrike-thrush, Yellow Chat, White-breasted Whistler
- Dusky Gerygone, Broad-billed Flycatcher, Red-headed Honeyeater
- Silver-backed Butcherbird, and more.
New Zealand Birding Tour
- Kaka, Kea, Tui
- Yellow-eyed & Fairy Penguinand
- 4 spp of Shag; Wrybill
- Weka, Kiwis
- Stitchbird, Bellbird
- Red-fronted & Yellow-fronted Parakeet
- Rock Wren, Rifleman
- New Zealand Pigeon
- New Zealand Dotterel
- Saddleback, Whitehead
- North Island Robin, Fernbird
- Brown Teal, Blue Duck
- Takahe, Kokako
- sea-birds such as albatrosses, shearwaters, Fairy Prion, Common Diving Petrel, White-fronted Tern, Black-billed & Red-billed Gull
- Paradise Shelduck, SIPO
- ...and many more!
Brazil: Birds & Jaguars
- Band-tailed, Fire-Crowned Manakins and Southern Antpipit
- Rufous-sided Pygmy-Tyrant, Small-billed Tinamou, White-eared Puffbird
- Collared Crescentchest, Horned Sungem, Yellow-billed Blue Finch
- Red-legged Seriema, White-eared Puffbird, White-rumped and White-banded Tanagers
- Yellow-ridge Toucan, Chesnut-eared Aracari, Blue-winged Macaws
- Southern Beardless Tyrannulet, Green-backed Becard, Golden-green Woodpecker
- Red-billed Scythebill, Flavescent Warbler
- Hyacinth Macaw & Harpy Eagle
Uganda Gorillas & Birds Tour
- Shoebill, Green-breasted Pitta, African Green Broadbill
- Papyrus Gonolek, Blackwinged Bishop, Brown Twinspot
- Brown Parrot, Red-faced Lovebird, White-throated Bee-eater
- Red-tailed Ant-thrush, Purple-headed Starling, White-spotted Flufftail
- Mackinnon’s Fiscal, Tropical Boubou, Silverbird, Black-lored Babbler
- Double-toothed Barbet, African Paradise-flycatcher, Golden-breasted Bunting
- masses of northern hemisphere migrants including wagtails, chats and raptors
- African Finfoot, many species of Sunbird and a host of Albertine Rift Endemics
Western Australia Birding Extravaganza
- Bourke’s Parrot, Western Quail-thrush, Sandhill Grasswren
- Pilbara Grasswren, Painted Finch, Spinifexbird
- Purple-crowned Fairy-wren, Long-tailed and Crimson Finch, Northern Shrike-tit
- Banded, Bar-breasted, Yellow-tinted Honeyeater
- Kimberley Honeyeater, Buff-sided Robin
- Black Grasswren, Partridge Pigeon
- Grey Honeyeater, Chestnut-quilled Rock Pigeon
- Chiming Wedgebill, Western Grasswren
- Silver-backed Butcherbird and more.
Tanzania Birds & Wildlife Tour
- Open-billed Stork, Heuglin’s Courser, Kori Bustard
- Square-tailed Nightjar, Black and Blue-headed Coucals
- Scarlet-chested Sunbird, Red and Yellow Barbets
- Magpie Shrikes, various fiscal shrikes, bushshrikes
- Ostrich, Secretary Bird, turacowss
- larks, finches, queleas, oxpeckers
- tinkerbirds, woodpeckers, hornbills
- raptors incl Martial Eagle, Lesser & Greater Kestrel
- Hill Babbler, White-starred Robin
- Cinnamon Bracken-Warbler, Golden-winged Sunbird
- Black-backed Puffback, Northern Olive Thrush, greenbuls
- Montane White-eye, Mountain Yellow Flycatcher
- African Ground Hornbill
- mammals including the "Big Five"
- African Elephant, Black Rhino, Giraffe, Gazelles
- Zebra, Impala, Antilopes, Warthog
- Lion, Cheetah, Leopard
- Black Rhinoceros, Hippopotamus
- Hyena, Colobus Monkey, Nile Crocodile
- and many more...!
Costa Rica Birding Tour
- Hummingbirds, Trogons, Parrots, Toucans
- Tanagers, Jacamars, Motmots, Antbirds
- Lesson's Motmot, WhiteThroated MagpieJay
- Scarlet Macaw, Keelbilled Toucan, Resplendent Quetzal
- Bare-shanked Screech-Owl, Dull-mantled Antbird
- Spotted Woodcreeper, Stripe-breasted Wren
- Orange-fronted Parakeet, Buff-throated Saltator
- Short-tailed Hawk, Laughing Falcon, Black Hawk-Eagle
- White-necked Puffbird, Pale-billed Woodpecker
- Collared Trogon, Tody Motmot, Large-footed Finch
- Flame-throated Warbler, Black-and-yellow Silky-Flycatcher
- Golden-browed Chlorophonia, Fiery-throated Hummingbird
- Long-tailed Silky-Flycatcher, White-winged Tanager
- Northern Emerald-Toucanet, Sooty Thrush, Collared Redstart
- Spot-crowned Woodcreeper, Rufous-browed Peppershrike
- White-tipped Sicklebill, Sooty Thrush, Collared Redstart
Dubai Area Short Birding Tour
- Purple Sunbirds, Red-wattled Lapwings,
- Little Green Bee-eaters and Grey Francolins
- Grey Hy-pocolius, Hume's Wheatears
- White-throated Robin, Pallid Scops Owl
- Pintail Snipe, Cream-coloured Courser
- Great Knot, Crab Plover
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
Savannah to Tropics Birding Tour
- Pictorella Mannikin, Black-throated Finch, Chestnut- breasted Munia
- Purple-crowned Fairy-wren, Buff-sided Robin, Mangrove Robin
- Mangrove Golden Whistler, White-breasted Whistler, Yellow White-eye
- Spotted Nightjar, Australian Owlet-nightjar, Australasian Darter
- Great-billed Heron, Golden Bowerbird, Black-necked Stork
- Red-headed Honeyeater, Mangrove Fantail, Mangrove Gerygone
- Sandstone Shrikethrush, Spinifex & Squatter Pigeon
- ...and many 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.
Ethiopia Birding Tour
- Marabou Storks, Yellow-billed Kites and Hooded Vultures
- Spur-winged Goose, Helmeted Guineafowl, Abdim’s Stork
- Hadada Ibis, Hamerkop, Lappet-faced Vulture
- Chanting Goshawk, Scissor-tailed Kite, Arabian Bustard
- Black-crowned Crane, Double-banded Courser, Tambourine Dove
- Abyssinian Owl, Mousebird, Narina Trogon
- Half-collared Kingfisher, Carmine Bee-eater, Wood-hoopoe
- Red-throated Wryneck, Cardinal Woodpecker, Red-bellied Parrot
- Mosque Swallow, Superb Starling (pictured) and many more...
Australian Parrots
- Australian King-Parrot, Cockatiel
- Australian Ringneck, Superb Parrot
- Red-winged Parrot, Budgerigar
- Crimson, Eastern & Northern Rosella
- Red-rumped & Mulga Parrot
- Hooded Parrot, Blue Bonnet
- Bourke’s & Blue-winged Parrot
- Turquoise Parrot, Gang-gang
- Red-tailed Black-Cockatoo, Galah
- Glossy-Black & Yellow-tailed Black Cockatoo
- Long-billed & Little Corella
- Major Mitchells & Sulphur-crested Cockatoo
- Rainbow, Varied, Musk Lorikeet
- Purple-crowned, Little Lorikeet
White-throated Grasswren Short Tour
- White-throated Grasswren
- Chestnut-quilled Rock-pigeon
- Buff-sided Robin
- Red Goshawk
- Rainbow Pitta
- Hooded Parrot
- Sandstone Shrike-thrush
- Rufous-throated, Banded Honeyeater
- Bar-breasted, White-lined Honeyeater
- Silver-crowned Friarbird
- Black-tailed Treecreeper
- Green Pygmy-goose
- Wandering and Plumed whistling-duck
- chance: Banded Fruit-dove, Gouldian Finch
Six Grasswren Tour
- Western, Thick-billed, Eyrean Grasswren
- Grey, Short-tailed, Striated Grasswren
- Chestnut-breasted and Banded Whiteface
- Orange, Crimson, White-fronted Chat
- Shy Heathwren, Gibber Chat
- Inland Dotterel, Australian Pratincole
- Mallee Emu-wren, Redthroat
- Black-eared Miner, Red-lored Whistler
- Black-breasted Buzzard, Pied Honeyeater
- Chestnut and Cinnamon Quail-thrush
- and many, many more.
Nine Grasswren Tour - Multiple Departures
- Western, Thick-billed, Grey, Eyrean Grasswren
- Kalkadoon, Opalton, Short-tailed, Striated Grasswren
- Carpentarian Grasswren, Spinifexbird
- Gibberbird, Banded Whiteface
- Orange, Crimson, White-fronted Chat
- Inland Dotterel, Australian Pratincole
- Shy Heathwren, Rufous-crowned Emu-wren
- Mallee Emu-wren, Redthroat, Painted Finch
- Black-eared Miner, Red-lored Whistler
- Grey Falcon, Black-breasted Buzzard
- Flock Bronzewing, Spinifex Pigeon
- Chestnut and Cinnamon Quail-thrush
- Chestnut-breasted Quail-thrush
- Hall's Babbler, Spotted Bowerbird
- and many, many more.