Come birdwatching in Australia's Northern Territory! Our coasts and floodplains support massive flocks of waterbirds, watched from above by many species of raptors, and from below by our famous crocodiles. Look for spectacular parrots, bowerbirds and finches in the savanna woodlands or take a hike onto the sandstone plateau to look for the area's endemic birds.

The Northern Territory offers some of the best birdwatching in Australia:

• Our own birds: four species are found nowhere else in the world
• Big bird list: 396 species recorded, most along the Top End Birding Route
• Huge flocks: we have over a million Magpie Geese and countless numbers of ducks, cormorants and herons.
• Beautiful birds: Red-winged Parrot and Rainbow Pitta
• Rare birds: threatened Red Goshawk and Gouldian Finch
• Iconic birds: the spectacular Brolga and Red-tailed Black-Cockatoo are important in Indigenous culture

Why book your tour with Kakadu Birding Project?

• All our guides have been trained and endorsed by Birds Australia
• We have a wide range of birdwatching tours
• All our training and advertising includes conservation awareness and incentives for land-holders
• We offer tours with a guide to allow you to share stories and cultural knowledge

Creating sustainable livelihoods from Birdwatching Tourism

The Kakadu Birding Project has been developed to raise the profile of birdwatching activities in the Northern Territory and to facilitate new tours.

We aim to foster an awareness of the value of birds, especially amongst the Traditional Owners who have managed this land for 30,000 years. We have developed a program to help train guides, to increase the number of visiting birdwatchers and to encourage more of our general visitors to go birdwatching. Our ultimate objective is to create sustainable livelihoods from birdwatching tourism.

Birds Australia have a partnership with Rio Tinto which aims to help their mines achieve the aims of a net positive impact on the environment. The Kakadu Birding Project is based on a bird tourism project between BirdLife International and Rio Tinto in South Africa, and aims to put a value on birds especially in the area's many Important Bird Areas.

The project did not receive any funding from government (the NT NRM board) for 2009 and is continuing at a much lower level. It is however organising the Kakadu Bird Week in October 2009.

The program is a partnership between Birds Australia and Rio Tinto/ERA, with significant support from Charles Darwin University, Kakadu National Park, Northern Territory Natural Resources Management Board, Parks Northern Territory and Tourism Northern Territory.