NT Bird Specialists consistently provide our guests with breath-taking natural experiences and a wealth of intimate local knowledge.
Rest assured with our award-winning team, as we combine over 35 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.
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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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 |
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: 85 233 609 185 |
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Our Top Tours
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5 Day East Kimberley & Mitchell Falls Bird Photography Tour
Join our exhilarating bird photography adventure to seek Kimberley endemics & local speciality targets in gorgeous settings. Limited availability in 2022. Ask about Special Offers.
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5 Day Purnululu East Kimberley Landscape Photography Workshop
Join our dramatic landscape photographic adventure with Jay Collier in East Kimberley wilderness sites. Limited availability in 2022. Maximum 10 guests. 2 Expert Tour leaders. Save $1,000.
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6 Night Top End Birds & Wildlife Photographic Workshop Immersion
Join our breath-taking bird & wildlife photography tour with Jay Collier in Kakadu’s World Heritage sites. Limited availability 2022. Maximum 8 guests. 2 Expert Tour leaders. Ask about Special Offers.
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8 Day Australian Outback Birdwatching Tour, Darwin (NT) to Mount Isa (QLD)
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17 Day Northern Australia Outback Birding Tour, Darwin (NT) to Cairns (QLD) via Mount Isa
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5 Day Wild Kakadu Nature & Landscape Photographic Expedition
Join our exclusive photographic expedition through the heart of Crocodile Dundee country. June 2022. Limited availability.
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10 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!
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15 Day Sri Lankan Birdwatching Tour plus Wildlife
Join NT Bird Specialists on a 15 day ‘Wild-Life’ Adventure through the biodiverse and culturally rich lands of Sri Lanka in February 2023. ‘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.’
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7 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.
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9 Day Tropical Outback Top End Bird Photography Tour
Embark on our 9 Day ‘Tropical Outback’ Top End Bird Photography Tour to photograph an incredible range of colourful and unique northern Australian birds and wildlife in beautiful landscapes.
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5 Day Top End Birding and Wildlife 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.
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4 Day Kakadu Birdwatching Tour ‘Djagarna Jaunt’
Our 4 day Kakadu Birdwatching tour ‘Djagarna Jaunt’ explores a 1200 kilometre circuit along the Arnhem, Kakadu and Stuart Highways, in the Top End of the Northern Territory.
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3 Day Kakadu Wildlife Tour ‘Ragul Run’
For those with a less time to visit the Top End, our 3 Day ‘Ragul Run’ wildlife tour presents a taste of Kakadu in two nights.
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2 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’.
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1 Day Kakadu Birdwatching Tours
Our 1 day Kakadu bird watching tours start and finish in the heart of the World Heritage Kakadu National Park.
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1 Day Darwin Birdwatching Tour ‘Sticky Beak’
Darwin’s urban landscapes retain an array of habitats for birds and wildlife to flourish in.
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Kakadu Bird Week Tours 2022
Get a fantastic taste of Kakadu’s birding highlights when Luke guides you to the best sites during Kakadu Bird Week 2022. Enquire and book Kakadu Bird Week tours today [email protected]
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