If you think you'll have only one opportunity to visit Australasia, this tour is designed for you. We'll be sampling two great birding sites in New Guinea (including beautiful Kumul Lodge with its many birds-of-paradise) and the best of eastern Australia (including the Cairns area, the edge of the Outback, O'Reilly's in Lamington National Park, and Royal National Park near Sydney).

In New Guinea, both near Port Moresby and in the highlands, we'll be looking for such birds-of-paradise as Raggiana, King-of-Saxony, Blue, and Superb, Brown Sicklebill, and Ribbon-tailed Astrapia. Other notables include good chances of three endemic families in Fan-tailed Berrypecker, Crested and Tit berrypeckers, and the stunning Crested Satinbird plus the elusive Chestnut Forest-Rail, Papuan Lorikeet, Brehm's Tiger-Parrot, and Garnet and White-winged robins--all against the backdrop of a remarkable civilization, with many people still practicing their traditional lifestyles.

In Australia, we'll hope to find a huge Southern Cassowary at the well-known Cassowary House, and we'll visit the beautiful rainforest reserves of the Atherton Tableland, home to such birds as Wompoo and Superb fruit-doves, Chowchilla, Victoria's Riflebird, perhaps the rare Golden Bowerbird, and a good variety of mammals including Duck-billed Platypus. We'll also spend two days at O'Reilly's Guest House (Lamington National Park), where we will see Regent and Satin bowerbirds, Paradise Riflebird, Logrunner, and Crimson Rosellas at close range, and we'll have time to search for the more challenging Noisy Pitta and Albert's Lyrebird.

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