Tour Highlights
- Yellow Chat
- White-quilled Rock Pigeon
- Spinifex Pigeon
- Gouldian Finch
- Chestnut Rail
- Purple-crowned Fairy-wren
- Hooded Parrot (local endemic)
- Star Finch
- Red Goshawk
- Sunrise boat cruises
- Lake Argyle
- Kununurra
- Category
Start
DarwinEnd
Kununurra
- Birdwatching focus
- high
- Wildlife focus
- moderate | high
- Photography focus
- moderate | high
- Culture focus
- low | moderate
- Walks rating
- moderate
- Number of boat cruises
- Public1Private1
- Sleeping options
- ensuite / camping
Tour notes & Add-ons
By far our most popular tour: Our Ultimate Top End Birding Adventure Tour starts in Darwin, Northern Territory and finishes in Kununurra, Western Australia, taking you to the best birdwatching sites in the Northern Territory.
You can return to Darwin or fly Broome or Perth with a short flight with Air North, Qantas or Virgin (or express transfer by road with our guide returning to Darwin).
2025 Group Tours:
22-31 July 2025: Darwin (NT) to Kununurra (WA)
8-17 November 2025: Darwin (NT) to Kununurra (WA)
*Or book a comprehensive 17 Day tour package including tour extension in Darwin and East Kimberley, plus pre & post-tour hotels and airport transfers
5-21 November 2025
If these tours are full, please join our Waitlists or register for the following year.
*Enquire for pre and post-tour optional extras *we also book guests’ hotels, tours, airport transfers, photography equipment hire*
Tour Summary
NT Bird Specialists’ ‘Ultimate Top End Birding Adventure’ tour discovers some of the most remote and impressive landscapes and targeted bird and wildlife species in one fowl swoop! This one way bird watching tour departs Darwin, Northern Territory.
Mouth-watering birds include: Yellow Chat, Spinifex Pigeon, Gouldian Finch, Purple-crowned Fairy-wren, Rainbow Pitta, Chestnut Rail, Rufous Owl, Red Goshawk, Banded Fruit-dove, White-lined Honeyeater, Chestnut and White-quilled Rock Pigeons, Hooded Parrot and honeyeaters galore.
Regions Visited
- Darwin
- Mary River
- Kakadu
- Katherine
- Pine Creek
- Timber Creek
- Lake Argyle
- Kununurra
- 8East Kimberley, Ord River, Wyndham on extensions