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Bird-spots.com covers birding locations in Australia. We bring together a breadth of information about a birding site such as accurate and uncluttered maps, showing the main areas of interest for birding, as well as where to park and pertinent navigational features.
Bird Spots Blog
5d ago
Summary: Classic suburban birding with three lakes to choose from Dates of visits: 8 Mar 2022, 24 Aug 2024, 14 Oct 2024 Springfield Lakes is a suburb in Ipswich, south-east Queensland, which is notable to the bird-lover for its three large lakes – Spring Lake, Regatta Lake and Discovery Lake. I don’t rate these quite ..read more
Bird Spots Blog
3w ago
Summary: Terrific high-diversity birding hotspot well located on the Sunshine Coast Dates of visits: May 16 2021, Nov 4 2022, Aug 20 2023, Dec 3 2023 Finland Road in the suburb of Paradise Waters is a pretty weird spot to be the Sunshine Coast’s #1 eBird hot spot. It brings to mind Cairns Esplanade, another ..read more
Bird Spots Blog
1M ago
Summary: Enjoyable location with better bird habitats than you might expect in Gold Coast suburbia Dates of visits: 20 Aug 2022, 13 Aug 2023, 25 Dec 2023 Varsity Lakes is a locality on the Gold Coast which, like many suburbs on the Goldy, is dominated by waterways (canals and lakes). In this case the largest ..read more
Bird Spots Blog
2M ago
Summary: Unique and interesting birding site providing a few different habitats in close proximity Dates of visits: Eight or more visits between 2021 and 2024. You’d have to think a nature site that encompasses grassland, bushland, tidal wetland, a bird hide and Brisbane’s best mangrove boardwalk would be pretty good, right? This is such a ..read more
Bird Spots Blog
3M ago
We made a ten day trip made from July 19 to July 28, 2024, mainly visiting nature sites around Darwin and Kakadu National Park, a journey very similar to one we made back in 2021. So we knew what we were getting ourselves in for… rainless – usually cloudless – days, tropical heat, and more ..read more
Bird Spots Blog
4M ago
Summary: Great site for a good variety of bush birds, especially in winter
Dates of visits: Several from 2020 to 2024
Hardings Paddock is an excellent birding site in the Ipswich city area. It is a little hard to make generalisations about this location, as it tends to vary quite a bit from season to season and year to year. But here’s an attempt anyway!
The site is one of the best in south-east Queensland to see some magnificent bush birds, especially in and around the winter months: Rose Robin, Jacky Winter, and Spotted Quail-Thrush being a few of the well known species. You might well also ..read more
Bird Spots Blog
5M ago
Summary: Remote tropical lowland rainforest with unique and special birding
Dates of visit: Nov 13 to 17, 2023
Kutini-Payamu or Iron Range National Park is a large national park in Cape York, right at the top of Queensland. Biologically this region is heavily influenced by nearby Papua New Guinea, providing a smorgasbord of birds that can’t be found anywhere else in Australia, so for that reason alone it holds quite an appeal.
This blog post attempts a comprehensive coverage of birding at Iron Range, based on a trip made in November 2023 where our birding group of three visited all the main ho ..read more
Bird Spots Blog
5M ago
Chicago, the windy city, hosts many migrating birds in spring and in May 2024 also hosted two Australian bird enthusiasts. Was it windy? Yes, and it was sometimes rainy, but fortunately we had a few sunny days to explore some major hotspots as well as appreciate the impressive city architecture and a few of the many excellent restaurants. Our original plan was to use Chicago as a base to explore a little around Illinois, and to hop across to Magee Marsh in Ohio, a very highly regarded spring migration site. However, we opted in the end to stay within Chicago’s boundary and concentrate on what ..read more
Bird Spots Blog
5M ago
The next region on our epic five-week North American birding tour started with big ole Arizona. We flew into Tucson from Texas (another state that experiences an influx during migration) and drove straight to Portal way down in south-east Arizona. We then worked our way back west and north, in what came to be the “canyon discovery” tour: yes there was plenty of shameless touristing and gawking at epic landscapes in between the birding sites. We ended this leg by flying out of Las Vegas, actually a pretty productive birding spot given that it’s kind of an oasis in the desert.
Portal and Cave Cr ..read more
Bird Spots Blog
5M ago
Texas! It’s the Lone Star state, where everything is bigger. But did you know that south Texas is one of the most biodiverse areas in the USA? We did, so we planned to go there as the first stop on our 5-week North America birding trip. It was mid-April, just getting into the peak levels of birds migrating into the US from southerly climes, so a perfect time to go and see as many interesting birds as possible.
Culinan Park, Houston
We flew directly from San Jose, Costa Rica to Houston and picked up a hire car, staying just one night in the big city. For the morning we headed to Culinan Park in ..read more