BIRD WATCHING - MISSION BEACH ONE OF BEST
Here's an independent traveler's opinion of a 24-day bird-watching tour they undertook.
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The tour included from the outskirts of Cairns to Daintree Village to the Julatten area to Atherton to Mission Beach
and back to Cairns which was a good birding circuit.
Of the 240 bird species they saw in Far North Queensland, 55 are endemic to Australia and 12 are endemic to only Queensland.
Of the 183 non-Australian Endemic bird species seen, they had only seen 12 species before in North/Central/South America;
i.e. there were 171 new species for them. Overall, 95% of the birds they saw in Far North Queensland were new for them.
