Eyes on Wildlife - Birding & Wildlife Tours

Name: Eyes on Wildlife - Birding & Wildlife Tours
Address: 2 Jessop Road, Atherton, QLD, 4883, AU
Telephone: 0439 817 214

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Lumholtz's Tree-kangaroo in the rainforest canopy

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Eyes on Wildlife offers day, multi-day and nocturnal birding and wildlife tours for small groups and families in the Wet Tropics Bioregion and surrounds. Eyes on Wildlife focuses on getting you close up with some of the rarest and most special wonders of evolution in the world. Animals that can only be found here in our beautiful Wet Tropics and nowhere else in the world.

Tree-kangaroos, gliding possums and other marsupials, Platypus, birds of paradise, cranes, birds that build bowers to attract females, carpet pythons or owls. The wildlife in this area is so diverse and so omnipresent, it will leave you in awe.

Day tours usually focus on birds, but the Mammals Galore Tour can also get you Platypus, Lumholtz's Tree-kangaroo, some other mammals and even some reptiles.

Most mammals in Australia are nocturnal. Nocturnal tours let you experience the forest in a completely different way. It's a different world. The world of possums, geckos, owls, frogs... It's a world that takes you the furthest away from your daily life and worries. Eyes on Wildlife specializes in showing this world.

Check the website to find out which tour suits you the best. Tours can be booked privately as well, and can focus on one specific target, or can be completely tailored to your needs.

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Available Tours

Nocturnal Wet Tropics Tour - 2.5 hrs

This tour is run in the Atherton area and is non-exclusive with a maximum of 6 persons. This tour is the best option for families with children under 12 years of age. This version of the tour will get you 3-5 possum species, with Green Ringtail Possum, Herbert River Ringtail Possum and Lemuroid Ringtail Possum - all three endemic to the Wet Tropics Bioregion - nearly always seen on this tour. Common Brushtail Possum is also one of the regulars. Sometimes they get Striped Possum and if they are very lucky they might also get Long-tailed Pygmy Possum. They also very often get Lumholtz's Tree Kangaroo, Giant White-tailed Rat and sometimes Fawn-footed Melomys, Long-nosed Bandicoot and maybe a Spectacled Flying-fox or some other bats. Of course, they also get owls on tour. Eastern Barn Owl is regularly seen perched on fence posts. Lesser Sooty Owl, Rufous Owl and Little Red Boobook are sometimes seen as well although not specifically targeted. Northern Leaf-tailed Gecko and Chameleon Gecko - both Wet Tropics Bioregion endemics - are also regulars on this tour. Now and then, they get a snake on tour.

Mammals Galore Tour

This tour is a HALF DAY (5 hrs - afternoon) followed by a 3 HRS NOCTURNAL WET TROPICS TOUR which showcases some of the Wet Tropics endemic and other wildlife unique to Australia that can be found on our beautiful Atherton Tablelands. Lumholtz's Tree Kangaroo (Wet Tropics endemic = WT end.), Musky Rat-kangaroo (WTend.), Red-legged Pademelon, Platypus, Green Ring-tailed Possum (WTend.) are some of the mammals that can be seen during the day. Most mammals are nocturnal and that's why they will also be spotlighting after dinner. Dinner can be had at a restaurant or guests can bring picnic dinner. The latter allows for more flexibility. They do not only see mammals on this tour of course. They also see some find Wet Tropics endemic rainforest birds like Grey-headed Robin or Pied Monarch, and maybe even other endemics like Victoria's Riflebird or Tooth-billed Bowerbird. Reptiles like the Wet Tropics endemic Boyd's Forest Dragon can be seen on tours in the warmer months (Nov-March). Both Sarus Crane and Brolga can be seen from about July till late November.