Tour Highlights
- 3 Grasswrens, Grey Falcon
- 2 Bowerbirds, 10 Grass Finches
- Endemics and rarities
- Exceptional local specialist bird guide
- Fully accommodated, all meals
- Category
Start
DarwinEnd
Mount Isa
- Birdwatching focus
- high
- Wildlife focus
- low | moderate
- Photography focus
- moderate
- Culture focus
- low
- Walks rating
- easy | moderate
- Number of boat cruises
- Public0Private0
- Sleeping options
- ensuite
Tour notes & Add-ons
Tour Starts: Darwin, Northern Territory
Tour Ends: Mount Isa, Queensland
Extend Your Birding Holidays with Our Connecting Tours & Convenient Packages:
**Our 2026 Tours links to our very popular Red Centre Tours and 11 Day Ultimate Top End Birding Tour giving you the option of an incredible 11-day or 1 month extended birding holiday (including pre & post-tour hotels) throughout the Northern Territory’s best birding sites and habitats (Darwin, Kakadu, Katherine, Timber Creek, Tennant Creek, Barkly, Alice Springs and Red Centre regions), plus outback Queensland.
Or you can book each leg individually.
Add on: 6 Day Red Centre Alice Springs Birdwatching and Wildlife Tour – 22-27 August 2026 (after the Darwin to Mount Isa Outback Birding Expedition 9-19 Aug 26)
Add on: 11 Day Ultimate Top End Birding Adventure Tour – 30 Aug-9 Sept 2026 (after the Red Centre Alice Springs Birding Tour 22-27 Aug 2026)
Tour Summary
Darwin • Pine Creek • Katherine • Daly Waters • Tennant Creek • Barkly Tablelands to Mount Isa
*OR Tennant Creek to Alice Springs (Private tours/groups only)
Explore the best birdwatching sites in outback northern Australia and get the chance to photograph some of Australia’s rarest and remote bird species on this remote yet super comfortable (fully-accommodated) inland birdwatching expedition of a lifetime.
Book now to join our small group birdwatching adventure departing Darwin to explore the tropics to arid inland habitats of Mount Isa via the Barkly region and Tennant Creek.
Be prepared for outstanding birdwatching results while finding and photographing rare and endemic Australian bird species including:
3 Grasswrens (Dusky, Kalkadoon & Carpentarian Grasswren); Grey Falcon; Cloncurry & Hooded Parrot; Painted Finch, Zebra & Gouldian Finch; Pictorella Mannikin; 2 Bowerbirds (Great, Spotted, Western Bowerbird); Rainbow Pitta; over 10 species of grass finch; 3 Fairywren (Purple-backed, White-winged and Red-backed Fairywren) and more!
Experience excellence in specialist outback birding and bird photography services under the professional guidance of Luke Paterson, one of Australia’s most experienced birdwatching guides. Travel in our 11-22 seater buses depending on group size, or luxury 200 Series 4WD Toyota Land Cruiser (private tours).
*Private tours/groups* can choose your own birding itinerary to seek target bird species, starting in Darwin and finishing in either Mount Isa (outback Queensland) or Alice Springs (Red Centre, Northern Territory).
*Pink Cockatoo and Splendid Fairywren also on Alice Springs itineraries.
Regions Visited
- Darwin
- Pine Creek
- Katherine
- Mataranka
- Tenannt Creek
- Barkly Tablelands
- Camooweal
- Mount Isa
- Alice Springs *Private tours*
- East & West MacDonnell Ranges
- Red Centre
Tour Route