Come and ‘Experience the Wild’ around Darwin and the Top End. We can take you to see an amazing variety of unique birdlife in monsoon forests, savannah woodlands, mangroves, wetlands and billabongs, all within an hour’s drive of Darwin City.
We specialise in bird and nature watching tours and offer half day, full day tours close to Darwin and two or three day tours taking in Mary River National Park, Kakadu and Katherine. Guides Mike Jarvis, Chris Parker and Graham Brown are passionate about the environment, local birdlife, wildlife and habitat as well as Indigenous culture and NT history and heritage.
With a maximum of six passengers, you are assured of a personalized experience as you travel in a comfortable, air-conditioned 4WD.
We are accredited with the following:-
- Kakadu Tour Operator License
- Parks and Wildlife NT Tour Operator License
- Australian Tourism Accreditation Program
- T-QUAL Australian Tourism Quality Assured
- Certificate IV Tourism (Guiding) NT
The Northern Territory’s Top End features a mosaic of habitats offering an exceptional variety and density of birds.
Around Darwin City itself there are many unspoiled areas that ‘Experience the Wild’ tours visit to showcase our birdlife and interpret the habitat. We go to places where we can have savannah woodland behind us, monsoon forest in front of us, shoreline the other side of the monsoon forest and a creek and mangroves just off to our right. In the middle of all this there is a small irrigated park. We could (and usually do) see specialist bird species from any of these habitats anywhere we look!
A Top End birding experience starts with these treasure chest locations around Darwin and then ventures out to other areas such as the Mary River National Park where we often see Gouldian Finches and Kakadu National Park where the Arnhemland Escarpment is home to some unique species that live only there.
On our return to Darwin we look for savannah species we may have missed elsewhere. All the time we are learning about the significance of the landforms, wildlife and birds to the traditional owners of the country we are travelling through, and the conservation methods they have practiced for thousands of years. We will see evidence of several climate changes that have affected the territory habitats over the last few thousand years. And as we do this we constantly adding new bird sightings to our list!
