Which fowl species do you assume is the largest attraction to guests of your lodge (please solely title one species)?
Victoria’s Riflebird (Ptiloris victoriae)
What’s the title of your lodge, and since when has your lodge been working?
Atherton Tablelands Birdwatchers’ Cabin, since 2016
How greatest to journey to your lodge?
By automobile; lower than 2 hours from Cairns
What sort of companies – aside from lodging and meals – does your lodge provide to visiting birders?
Birdbath and feeders close to the cabin, riflebird show publish simply meters from the cabin’s veranda, fowl and different animal checklists, reference books/subject guides, an inventory and map of birding and wildlife spots on the Atherton Tablelands. BTW: we don’t provide meals, aside from an in depth vary of condiments. The cabin has a well-equipped kitchen.
What makes your lodge particular?
We’re situated within the Atherton Tablelands, the place almost half of Australia’s fowl species happen. Inside an hour’s drive (or a lot much less), you may go to many numerous ecosystems: savannah woodlands, upland rainforest, wetlands, and open rural areas. The cabin is ready inside an ecotone of rainforest and sclerophyll forest. There is just one cabin, so you may take pleasure in undisturbed, tranquil birdwatching.
View from cabin veranda
What are the ten – 20 most fascinating birds that your lodge provides good probabilities to see?
- Australian King Parrot
- White-throated Treecreeper
- Crimson-backed Fairywren
- Yellow-throated Scrubwren
- Mountain Thornbill
- Macleay’s Honeyeater
- Bridled Honeyeater
- White-cheeked Honeyeater
- Jap Spinebill
- Gray-headed Robin
- Pale-yellow Robin
- Golden Whistler
- Bower’s Shrike-thrush
- Pied Monarch
- Yellow-breasted Boatbill
- Victoria’s Riflebird
- Satin Bowerbird
Our property fowl record encompasses 132 species, to date.
Australian King Parrot
What’s the greatest time to go to your lodge, and why?
June to December: riflebirds displaying, September to March: most birds breeding
Is your lodge concerned in conservation efforts? If sure, please describe them.
We preserved our property as a Nature Refuge, the best conservation standing for personal land in Queensland (corresponding to Nationwide Parks). Our property additionally borders onto Herberton Vary Nationwide Park.
Yellow-breasted Boatbill
What different options are you able to give to birders occupied with visiting your lodge?
Though we’re within the tropics, convey heat garments, as it might probably get chilly right here at 1000m elevation at any time of the yr.
Do you may have actions for non-birders? If that’s the case, please describe.
There are personal, marked strolling tracks in our forest, together with a self-guided botanical stroll. You may go spotlighting for gliders, possums, frogs, geckoes, and so forth. We often arrange a lightweight sheet to draw moths, beetles, and different bugs. Within the close by nationwide park,s there are a lot of walks and waterfalls/swimming holes. Some villages/cities on the tablelands have artwork galleries/artwork trails.
Tree-kangaroo
If any reader of 10,000 Birds is occupied with staying at your lodge, how can they greatest contact you?
By way of the contact pages of our web site: www.athertontablelandsbirdwatcherscabin.com.au information@athertontablelandsbirdwatcherscabin.com.au
Is there the rest you wish to share with the readers of 10,000 Birds?
We welcome company, who take pleasure in watching birds and being a part of nature, respect flora & fauna round them, and who perceive that nature is unpredictable and that there is no such thing as a assure that they’ll be capable to tick off each fowl on their record. Thus we don’t encourage call-back, approaching nesting birds, and photographers who need to get their excellent shot to the detriment of their goal species and/or the flora on our property. We don’t permit the feeding of cassowaries beneath any circumstances.