East Point is a relatively pristine peninsula partially surrounded by Darwin Harbour. In a small area experienced guides show bird enthusiasts a variety of habitats: from mangroves to monsoon vine thicket, rocky and sandy coastal beaches, each of which supports unique bird species. Wallabies can be seen grazing here too. East Point also has significant cultural heritage, history, and spectacular views of the city and coastal cliffs.

To the north of Darwin, the beaches of Lee Point and Buffalo Creek are home to thousands of migratory shorebirds making their way south from the Arctic to their summer home in northern Australia. In addition, a great variety of sedentary kingfishers, rails, raptors, terns, plovers, parrots, honeyeaters and bee-eaters can be seen here year-round. When grasses are seeding, Lee Point Dam can be a mecca for finches, including the rare and endangered Gouldian finch.

Early in the morning Rapid Creek abounds with honeyeaters, including the spectacular red-headed honeyeater, as well as pardalotes, doves, finches, friarbirds, parrots and cockatoos. This little-known corner of Darwin is a true bird hotspot.

Late in the dry season thousands of waterbirds congregate in the drying billabongs of Knuckey Lagoons, just a stone’s throw from Darwin City. Magpie geese, egrets, herons and occasionally rarer species like dowitchers and godwits gather at these productive wetlands.