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This tour’s big draw card is the dozens of new families for the first-time visitor, from birds-of-paradise and bowerbirds, to lyrebirds and cassowaries. The first days are about getting people accustomed to the new families, sub families and even the different habitat types. So many of the birds in Australia appear to have large ranges, but most species are very habitat specific; luckily the Tropical Birding guides here not only know where to go to find and identify all the species, they also understand some of the subtle differences that occur from year to year, such as rainfall and flowering changes that make some places dead one year and pumping the next. We used to think that this trip was by far the best for seeing the birds and animals of Eastern Australia, but with some of the tweaking we have done over the many years we have run this tour, we are now sure that no other Australian tour even comes close to providing what this trip offers. The covers the humid tropical forests of northern Queensland, the Great Barrier Reef, the cool mountain forests of Lamington National Park in southern Queensland, and takes in the coast, mountains and arid interior of New South Wales, and then extends all the way down to the rugged coastlines of Tasmania, seeing almost all of the available endemics along the way.