Tours
Bird'n'Nature Week 2009
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Operator: Christmas Island Tourism Association
Location: Christmas Island
Duration: 7 days
Dates to be Announced
Description:
Held in September every year - 2009 dates to be announced early 2009.
Christmas Island is Australia's Galapagos - 253 endemic plants and animals, and 160 that do not occur anywhere else in Australia. No other land area or reserve in Australia supports so many internationally and nationally recognised significant species in such a small area.
Participants will be invited to assist scientists in their research with daily field trips to an ornithological and biological garden of Eden.
There will be nightly seminars, photography workshops and special biology guided tours to explore the natural beauty and exotic wildlife of Australia's most spectacular, yet rarely visited tropical island.
Why we think you should book with us:
Special Target Species:
Itinerary:
Activity 1 : Boobies and Goshawks
Colour Banding Brown Boobys and Goshawks all over the Island
Activity 2: An Island's Secret
A day tour visiting some of the Islands most spectacular locations to learn about the Island ecology. Birds, crabs, plants, and a waterfall are all a part of this day.
Activity 3 : Noddies, Bosuns and Passerines
Banding and observing Common Noddies - Colour banding red-tailed tropic birds - Colour banding Java Finches and/or Island Thrushes
Activity 4 : Tracking Abbott's Boobys at Sea
Working in the rainforest to attach electronic tracking devices to Abbott's Booby and undertaking searches for their nests.
Activity 5 : National Park Research and Conservation and Bird Watching at Sea
A day with National Park staff which includes demonstrating their research and conservation of biodiversity on Christmas Island, which includes a Boat trip to view pelagic action offshore
Optional Activity : Natural History Photography workshops