The Golden Shouldered Parrot Tour

Rinyirru is the Aboriginal name for Lakefield National Park. This is located about half way up Cape York. This tour only goes  as far north as  Musgrave & the Lakefield region. It is the best area on the Cape to see the Golden-shouldered Parrots while nesting Red Goshawks and the tiny Star Finches are an added bonus. The avifauna of Lakefield National Park bears more similarity to that of the Northern Territory than to nearby areas of Queensland. The dramatic, knife-like silhouettes of the magnetic termite mounds on the Nifold Plains are also reminiscent of the Northern Territory.  In comparison most Queensland termite mounds are just blobby mud structures.