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Escorted Bird Tour Operators based in Australia/New Zealand and mainly offering tours there. The areas they cover are indicated. Contact the operator for more details.

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AABirding & Travel, Box 7999, Cairns 4870, Australia. *tel + 740318803, mob +452397275, web page aabirding.net, email aabirdo@gmail.com (international destinations include East Africa, Southern Peru, Northern India, Australasia).

Aurora Charters - cruise the coastline of Stewart island on Aurora Charters' 18m cataran for a variety of seabirds and visit to Ulva Island. Contact Colin and Margaret Hopkins, Aurora Charters, Po Box 86, Hlafmoon Bay, Stewart Island 9846, NZ. website www.auroracharters.co.nz e-mail info@auroracharters.co.nz

Birding South West, birdwatching tours designed and conducted, primarily in the South West region of Western Australia but also in other parts of Australia by request. These range from half-day tempters right through to fully accommodated 16 day expeditions as well as personalised tours looking for particular species or to specific locations. Contact Peter Taylor email: birdingsw@westnet.com.au ph +61 (0)8 9722 4788 mobile. 0428 345 245. 3/13 Young St, Manjimup WA 6258 http://birding-southwest.mysouthwest.com.au

Bronzewing Birding Services offer guided birdwatching tours through North East Victoria and Southern New South Wales (Australia). www.bronzewingbirdingservices.com/

Cassowary Tours offers small group birding tours around Cairns and the Atherton Tablelands, Cape York/ Iron Range, The Gulf and Mt Isa, and the East Coast of Australia. www.cassowarytours.com.au
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Central Tablelands Birdwatching Tours will take you birding in Mudgee, Munghorn Gap, the Capertee Valley and the Western Slopes of the Blue Mountains in New South Wales, Australia. Custom birding tours to see over 150 unique species in less than two days including the last strongholds of Regent Honeyeater and Swift Parrot. Visit http://birdingcentraltablelands.webs.com

Experience the Wild offer birdwatching and nature tours in Darwin and the Top End of Australia. The Northern Territory's Top End features a mosaic of habitats offering an exceptional variety and density of birds. Guides Mike Jarvis and Gerry Van Wees are passionate about the environment, local birdlife, wildlife and habitat as well as indigenous culture and NT history and heritage. Web: http://www.experiencethewild.com.au/

Firetail Birdwatching Tours Despite being Australia's smallest mainland state, Victoria's bird list stands at over five hundred, with close to four hundred species recorded each year. This could be one of Australia's best kept secrets, a region where it is possible to visit all of southern Australia's important habitat types within just a few hours driving. Whether interested in booking a tour or just researching your next birding trip, you will find this website useful www.firetailbirdwatchingtours.com/.

Forest of Ruru is a conservation project restoring a once-dying, now beautiful, native forest in far-north New Zeland. Visit Roger and Sachie and take a tour into the forest. www.forestofruru.co.nz

Manu Tours, offer small group guiding throughout New Zealand, Australia and the Pacific Island. Address: 106 Ocean Beach Road, Tairua 3508, New Zealand; phone and fax 647 864 7475; www.nzbirding.co.nz e-mail: manutours@nzbirding.co.nz;

Nature Quest New Zealand - specialists in custom designed, private guided birding, botanical & nature tours throughout New Zealand and educational study programmes for individuals, groups, societies, colleges & universities. Email: nature@naturequest.co.nz. Web: http://www.naturequest.co.nz Phone: +64 3 489 8444 Fax: +64 3 489 8444 Address: P.O. Box 6314 Dunedin New Zealand

New Zealand Land and Pelagic Bird Tours, pelagic and land trips to Chatham and Pitt Islands. Contact Ross Silcock, P.O. Box 57, Tabor, IA 51653 e-mail silcock@rosssilcock.com web www.rosssilcock.com/

Ocean Wings, Dolphin and Albatross Encounter, 58 West End, Kaikoura, South Island, New Zealand; phone 0064-3319-6777; fax: 0064-3319-6534; www.oceanwings.co.nz e-mail: info@oceanwings.co.nz (destination: pelagic birds of east coast of South Island, New Zealand)

Peregrine Bird Tours leads more bird tours within Australia than any other company but also offer overseas opportunities to places such as Trinidad and Tobago, Turkey, Spitsbergen, Greenland and Iceland, Sulawesi and Halmahera, Ethiopia and China. Contact Chris Doughty at 2 Drysdale Place, Mooroolbark, Victoria 3138, Australia; phone 613 9726 8471; fax: 613 9727 1545; website www.peregrinebirdtours.com e-mail: birding@peregrinebirdtours.com

Pterodroma Pelagics - specialises in NZ pelagics with regular trips for the Hauraki Gulf, NZ's far north and Stewart Island, plus a programme of extended pelagics for the South Pacific Region. Leading the study into the rare New Zaland Storm Petrel. Address: Pterodroma Pelagics, PO Box 686, Warkworth, New Zealand. website: www.nzseabirds.com e-mail info@nzseabirds.com

Ruggedy Range - specialising in natural history and bird watching trips on Stewart Island and Ulva Island - highly recommended by Lonely Planet. Enjoy daytime sightings of Kiwi on Stewart Island, encounters with Saddleback, Yellowhead, Kaka and other endemics on Ulva Island or pelagic birding. Address: 170 Horsehsoe Bay Road, Po Box 188, Stewart Island, New Zealand. Website: www.ruggedyrange.com. e-mail mail@ruggedyrange.com.

Sicklebill Safaris, run by Sue and Phil Gregory from Cassowary House, PO Box 387, Kuranda, Queensland 4881. Private/ small group tours of Australia, Papua New Guinea, New Zealand and the Pacific region. Visit their website

Wrybill Birding Tours, specialising in custom-made tours for couples or small groups, scheduled tours and pre-planning trip advice for the independent birder to New Zealand. Address, PO Box 8291, Havelock North 4157, New Zealand; Phone/fax + 64-6-323-1441 www.wrybill-tours.com email info@wrybill-tours.com