On our first full day in Port Douglas, we went on a day-long birding tour with Murray Hunt of Daintree Boatman Nature Tours. We first went on a morning boat tour with one other person, and then in the late morning and afternoon he drove us to a number of sites that provided numerous opportunities to photograph birds (and a few other things). I took about 900 photos. The first six are from Ingrid's camera, the rest are a selection of the better ones from mine.

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The peaceful Daintree River

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River & Reflections

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River & Reflections

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Jeff & his camera

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Ingrid on the boat

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The bower built by the Great Bower Bird, see below for the bird.

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Rainbow Lorikeet

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Green Tree Snake

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Welcome Swallow

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Great Billed Heron nesting

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Female Mistetoebird

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Female Olive-backed Sunbird

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Australasian Darter

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Wood Swallow

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Bush Stone-curlew

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Rainbow Bee-Eater

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Red-tailed Black Cockatoo

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Australasian Figbird

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Great Bowerbird moving a piece of glass back to its right place (Murray had deliberately disturbed the bower for us)

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Scaly-breasted Lorikeets

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Bustard

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Blue-faced Honeyeater

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Galah (a cockatoo)

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Blue-faced Honeyeater coaxing juvenile to jump down

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Tawny Frogmouth nesting

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Frangipani flower

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Pale-headed Rosella

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White-bellied Cuckoo-shrike with chick

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White-bellied Cuckoo-shrike with chick

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Masked Lapwing with chicks

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Lace Monitor