Australian Birds BIRDING NORTHERN TERRITORY Darwin Top End Part 1 by Alana and Greg Dare 

i know Im kinda off topic but do anybody know of a good website to watch newly released series online?

Great to hear that Matt. That's why we make these films, so it's lovely to have some feedback that they're helping new birders.

@@alanadare7052 our pleasure! Incidentally - we are going to be in Adelaide next month. Is there any places that should be on our hitlist?!

Thanks . We're glad to know that was a worthwhile feature.

get in touch if this horrible plague ever goes away and you're in SA

@@alanadare7052 that would be amazing.saddly I have another plaque called War . .. but thanx for the great offer

Thank you Mansour.

Thank you Christine. Hope you make it down under in 2022. If SA is on your itinerary (probably not as it's not the first choice birding state) we'd love to get together with you.

Thanks Bruce. Sorry for the delay in replying. The squeaker is called an Audubon Squeaker. I bought it in Aus for $19.99 which is expensive for a little device, but it has proved its worth in attracting small birds to investigate and come to the front of thick bushes.After phishing for a while I feel like I have been sucking lemons! You can probably buy one from your local bird club.

Hi Steven , the main camera I have been using has been the Panasonic Lumix FZ300 and Sony HDV FX7 with 2x extender. I broke this camera FX7 near the end of our Darwin trip when I was filming on a slope and had to buy a movie camera in Darwin and all they had was a Panasonic HDC SD60 with a 35x zoom but no viewfinder, so we had to film the rest of our trip, part 3&4 with this camera. Alana uses the Sony FDR AX60. Thanks for your comments. Greg

Hi Greg, Thank you. I would definitely go for the northern tropics, either Far North Queensland from Cairns or the Northern Territory from Darwin. Maybe both if time and money permit. At the moment you can actually see Gouldian and Star Finches at Lee Point about 2kms from Darwin airport. Normally you would have to travel to Katherine for a chance at them. However the government wants to clear the land there to build military accommodation and a shopping centre, so who knows how long a global eco attraction adjacent to a capital city will last!! You're coming at a beautiful time of the year for northern Australia. In the Northern Territory there are wonderful birds but greater distances to travel, mostly over dry savanna, to get to different habitats, so on balance I would choose going to Cairns and birding from there. There are so many different and accessible habitats within shorter distances, the tablelands to the west, the coast and Cape York to the north. At that time of the year you can drive up but probably best to do that with a guide. The roads can be pretty awful depending on damage in the wet season and they're having a lot of rain there at the moment. The birds are everywhere around Cairns and it's beautiful country. Hope you have a fantastic time. Alana

And it would have been but for Covid, though we have made one of Bali and Java.

Thanks Marten. We appreciate you taking the time to comment. We do our best to use all of the original soundtrack that we can. Unfortunately, because there are only two of us, we can't control the conditions when we're filming. We often have to compete with ambient noise, aeroplanes, dirtbikes, wind, people talking etc. Also some of the birds don't choose to call. We don't dub the calls afterwards because we're only amateurs.