NT Bird Specialists consistently provide our guests with breath-taking natural experiences and a wealth of intimate local knowledge.
Rest assured with our multi-award-winning team, as we combine over 39 years experience in the Northern Territory and Kimberley regions when packaging our genuine small group and custom ecotours, so you have more time to view wildlife and soak in your surroundings in comfort and style.
Our services in special-interest nature tourism are amongst the best on offer. Come and experience it for yourself.
Highlights of touring with NT Bird Specialists
- Multi award-winning tour operators and professional bird guiding team
- Seeking endemic, rare and iconic birds and wildlife in a diverse range of tropical habitats (over 400 bird species in the region)
- Capturing brilliant photographic moments
- Safety and comfort from our experienced and professional team
- Enjoying flexibility during private tours and tailored itineraries
- Genuine ecotourism, low impact tours that support the environment and local communities
- Enjoying excellent interpretation and customer services
- Travelling to stunning remote natural landscapes, largely unpopulated by people
- Immersing in your surroundings while cruising rivers, wetlands and lakes
- Fresh, healthy and home-cooked meals
- Hotels, luxury or camping options to suit everyone's taste
- Modern spacious and luxurious commercial tourist vehicles
- Making the most out of daylight hours, optimising time spent in the field
- Experiencing ancient and modern aboriginal cultures, occupation and rock art sites
- Exploring World Heritage National Parks
- Birds! Birds! Birds! Birds! Birds!
- Assurance of touring with an award-winning Australian Accredited Tourism Business and Licensed Commercial Tour Operator
NT Bird Specialists’
Affiliations & Accreditations
Accreditations |
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Accessible Tourism Accreditations (Sight, Hearting, Limited Mobility, *Wheelchair on request, Dietary)/ |
Licensed Commercial Tour Operator of the Northern Territory |
Licensed Commercial Passenger Vehicle operators |
H Endorsement Licence to drive paying passengers |
$20 Million Public Liability Insurance |
Commercial Vehicle Insurance |
Kakadu National Park Tour Operator Accredited Permit holders |
Parks & Wildlife Commission NT Accredited Tour Operator Permits |
Parks & Western Australian Parks & Wildlife Service Accredited Tour Operator Permits |
Parks & Uunguu Visitor Pass Accredited Tour Operator Permits (Mitchell Falls) |
Australian Quality Tourism Accredited Business *Sustainable and Ecostar Ratings |
Kakadu Knowledge for Tour Guides Accreditation |
Tourism Top End Membership |
Tourism Tribe Membership |
Parks & China Ready Accreditation |
Parks & Birdlife Australia membership, Birdlife Top End Committee members |
Parks & Registered Australian Business ABN: 99 655 491 544 |
Meet The NT Bird Specialists Team
Our Top Tours
View all toursBorneo Birding & Wildlife Tour: Hornbills, Trogons & Orangutans
Borneo is a naturalist’s dream & a breathtaking destination for NT Bird Specialists’ guests to experience incredible accessible birding & mammal viewing in style.
Find out more9 Day Australian Outback Birdwatching Tour, Darwin (NT) to Mount Isa (QLD)
Find out more10 Day Ultimate Top End Birding Adventure Tour
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!
Find out more7 Day North Australian Finch Frenzy Tour
Join NT Bird Specialists on a Grass ’Finch Frenzy’ of the best birding sites for Gouldian Finch, Star Finch, Pictorella Mannikin and up to 200 bird species spanning the Top End, Northern Territory. Start & finish in Darwin.
Find out moreWild Kakadu Nature Photography Expedition
Join our exclusive photographic expedition through the heart of Crocodile Dundee country. Special offers available.
Find out morePhotographic Workshop: Top End Birds & Wildlife Immersion
Join our breath-taking bird & wildlife photography workshop with Luke Paterson & Jay Collier in Kakadu’s World Heritage sites. Limited availability. 2 Expert Tour leaders. Special offers available.
Find out more5 Day Top End-Kakadu Birding, Wildlife & Nature Tour
Our 5 day ‘Top End Birding & Wildlife Experience’ provides fantastic chances to view many Top End specialty birds and wildlife, including Banded-fruit Dove (endemic), Rainbow Pitta, Hooded Parrot (endemic), Gouldian Finch and many waterbirds.
Find out more15 Day Sri Lankan Birdwatching & Wildlife Tour
Join NT Bird Specialists on a 15 day Wildlife Adventure through the biodiverse and culturally rich lands of Sri Lanka in March 2024 and 2025. ‘Immerse yourself in World Heritage wilderness and ancient cultural sites while searching for unique and endemic birds and wildlife off the beaten track. Sri Lanka – the Wonder of Asia, the Pearl of the Indian Ocean.’
Find out more8 Day Tropical Outback Bird Photography Tour
Embark on our 8 Day ‘Tropical Outback’ Bird Photography Tour to photograph an incredible range of colourful and unique northern Australian birds and wildlife in beautiful landscapes.
Find out more4 Day Kakadu Birdwatching Tour ‘Djakarna Jaunt’
Our 4 day Kakadu Birdwatching tour ‘Djakarna Jaunt’ explores a 1200 kilometre circuit along the Arnhem, Kakadu and Stuart Highways, in the Top End of the Northern Territory.
Find out more4 Day East Kimberley Bird Photography Tour
Join our tantalising bird photography adventure in the East Kimberley. Photograph finches, local speciality birds and reptiles in gorgeous boab-clad landscapes with million star astro views.
Find out more2 Day Pine Creek Birdwatching Tour ‘Parrot and Finch Paradise’
10 species of parrots, including the (locally endemic) Hooded Parrot, Red-winged Parrot, Cockatiel and Northern Rosella, rightfully makes the historic gold mining and railway township of Pine Creek the ‘Top End’s home of parrots’.
Find out more1 Day Kakadu Birdwatching Tours
Our 1 day Kakadu bird watching tours start and finish in the heart of the World Heritage Kakadu National Park.
Find out more1 Day Darwin Birdwatching Tour ‘Sticky Beak’
Darwin’s urban landscapes retain an array of habitats for birds and wildlife to flourish in.
Find out more1 Day Wild Kakadu Wildlife & Rock Art Tour
Only have a day or two to spare? Join our 1 Day Wild Kakadu Wildlife & Rock Art tour for a glimpse of the World Heritage wildlife and rock art at home amongst the mighty South Alligator floodplains and Ubirr rock art sites adjacent to the East Alligator River.
Find out moreKakadu Bird Week Tours 2025
Get a fantastic taste of Kakadu’s birding highlights when Luke guides you to the best sites during Kakadu Bird Week 2024. Enquire and book Kakadu Bird Week tours today [email protected]
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