With Tasmania’s wealth of natural beauty and wise variety of bird species you really have to spend some time doing research to make sure you visit places you are likely to see your target birds.  Since my main interest was parrots, I worked out the best places to see them.  Tasmania has 10 parrot species:

• Orange-bellied Parrots
• Eastern Ground Parrots
• Eastern Rosellas
• Green Rosellas
• Swift Parrots
• Musk Lorikeets
• Blue-winged Parrots
• Yellow-tailed Black Cockatoos
• Sulphur-crested Cockatoos
• Galahs

This is my final route.

Birding Tasmania

Hobart has many parrot species – Eastern Rosellas, Swift parrots, Musk Lorikeets, Sulphur-crested Cockatoos, Blue-winged Parrots, Galahs.

Melaleuca is accessable by flight from Hobart to see Orange-bellied Parrots & Eastern Ground Parrots if you are lucky.

Bruny Island is known for Swift Parrots, Yellow-tailed Black Cockatoos & Green Rosellas.

Strahan is supposed to be the easiest place to see Eastern Ground Parrots.

Cradle Mountain has Blue-winged Parrots.

Freycinet has Green Rosellas, Blue-winged Parrots, Yellow-tailed Black Cockatoos and Musk Lorikeets.

Complete list of birds found in Tasmania

Over the next few weeks, I will take you on a journey as I discover many beautiful Tasmanian birds.