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- From: wvenable@attunga.stats.adelaide.edu.au (Bill Venables)
- Newsgroups: rec.birds
- Subject: Re: HELP: Best travel destination(s) for bird-watching???
- Date: 26 Jan 93 09:39:14
- Organization: Department of Statistics, University of Adelaide
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- In-reply-to: dmark@acsu.buffalo.edu's message of 25 Jan 93 01:42:46 GMT
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- >>>>> "David" == David Mark <dmark@acsu.buffalo.edu> writes:
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- David> In article <bethp.727892840@milton> bethp@milton.u.washington.edu
- David> (Beth Plotkin) writes:
- >HELP: What are some of the best travel destinations in the world
- >for bird watching? All opinions welcome!
-
- David> That depends so much on what you want to get out of the trip! Of
- David> the places that I have been, I would nominate northeastern
- David> Australia, either the Brisbane region or the Cairns-Atherton area;
-
- I'm surprised, since I thought that somewhere like South or Central America
- would be much more dazzling. However to be specific, in the Brisbane area
- the Green Mountain National Park (O'Rielley's guest house) on the Lamington
- Plateau is possibly the best place to visit if you are just passing
- through. The Cairns-Atherton area is even better, of course, (Cairns is my
- home town :-) and with heaps of hot spots that you would need to ask a
- local birdwatcher about - most are not on the tourist tracks. However if
- you were going that far from the US you would be well advised to go even
- further north to the Iron Range National Park on the Claudie River. It's
- the southern limit for many New Guinea birds and the northern limit for
- many Australian ones. There are also quite a few endemics to the area
- itself (like the green-backed honeyeater), and the area is still very
- remote and unspoiled. It is easily the most productive and spectacular
- area I have ever been to.
-
- Bill
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