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
Tour Starts: Darwin, Northern Territory
Tour Ends: Kununurra, Western Australia
Extend Your Birding Holidays with Our Connecting Tours & Convenient Packages:
**In 2025, our 10 Day Ultimate Top End Birding Tour has the option of an adding an East Kimberley Birding Tour Extension to make a 17-night comprehensive Top End birding holiday (including pre & post-tour hotels) throughout the Northern Territory’s and Western Australia’s best birding and photography sites (Darwin, Kakadu, Katherine, Timber Creek, Lake Argyle, Kununurra, Wyndham and Ord River regions).
Each tour can also be booked individually.
– 7 Nov 2025 Darwin Birdwatching Day Tours (before the Ultimate Top End Birding Adventure Tour 8-17 Nov 25)
– 17-21 Nov 2025 East Kimberley Birding/Photography Tour (after the Ultimate Top End Birding Adventure Tour 8-17 Nov 25)
**This tour will be 11 days instead of 10 in 2026, and link to other incredible birding trips with NT Bird Specialists.
**In 2026, our 11 Day Ultimate Top End Birding Tour links to our new Red Centre Alice Springs Birdwatching Tour, giving you the option of an incredible 11 day or 18-night extended birding holiday (including pre & post-tour hotels) throughout the Northern Territory’s and Western Australia’s best birding and photography sites (Darwin, Kakadu, Katherine, Timber Creek, Lake Argyle, Kununurra, Alice Springs, MacDonnell Ranges regions).
Each tour can also be booked individually.
– 22-27 August and 30 Oct – 5 Nov 2026 6 Day Red Centre Alice Springs Birdwatching and Wildlife Tour (before the Ultimate Top End Birding Adventure Tour 30 Aug-9 Sept 26 and 8-18 Nov 26)
Tour Summary
Ultimate Top End Birdwatching Adventure Tour
2025 & 2026
Darwin • Kakadu • Pine Creek • Katherine • Timber Creek • Ord River • Lake Argyle • Kuunurra Western Australia
NT Bird Specialists’ ‘Ultimate Top End Birding Adventure’ tour discovers some of the Northern Territory’s 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, Red Goshawk, Banded Fruit-dove, Gouldian Finch, Purple-crowned Fairy-wren, White-lined Honeyeater, Chestnut and White-quilled Rock Pigeons, Spinifex Pigeon, Rainbow Pitta, Chestnut Rail, Rufous Owl, Hooded Parrot and honeyeaters galore.
Read this fantastic 2024 Northern Territory 10 Day Birding Tour with NT Bird Specialists trip report written by guests Wendy Phillips and Bob Daly ‘Some Days are like Diamonds’
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).
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*
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Regions Visited
- Darwin
- Mary River
- Kakadu
- Katherine
- Pine Creek
- Timber Creek
- Lake Argyle
- Kununurra
- East Kimberley, Ord River, Wyndham on extensions