Australia’s sunshine state, with habitats which range from desert and savannah to temperate and tropical rainforest, mangroves and mulga, is a birdwatchers paradise.
Some 815 bird species call Australia home, with more than 630 of them found in habitats across Queensland.

Western Australia”s Ningaloo Reef is a place where, for a few nights each year, nature reasserts itself dramatically as the different species of coral suddenly release millions upon millions of bright pink egg and sperm bundles which cloud the surface of the water.

Caws, tweets and screeches come from the thousands of black noddy terns nesting in the pandanus and pisonia trees and the countless chicks in the mutton bird (wedge tailed shearwater) burrows that dot Heron Island.

One of South Australia’s small pleasures is crab raking, or “dabbing”, as the locals call it, a common pastime in the state’s gulf regions.