I recently completed a one week birding tour in the Northern Territory with Bellbird Tours in the last week of August 2023. Being the dry season, the weather was hot and sunny, with daily temperatures reaching the mid-thirties after a cool start. The Top End was a new location for me, and I thoroughly enjoyed the experience. The birding was great, and overall I added over 50 bird species to my photographic life list, as well as new photos of more familiar species.

I have split the birds into various categories in the galleries below:

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Fogg Dam, Kakadu NP, Pine Creek, Victoria River and Timber Creek

Fogg Dam and Kakadu NP

Fogg Dam at sunrise Fogg Dam, NT	Arafura Fantail Fogg Dam, NT	Nankeen Night-heron Fogg Dam, NT	Barking Owl Fogg Dam, NT	Australasian Figbird Fogg Dam, NT	Broad-billed Flycatcher Fogg Dam, NT	Brush Cuckoo Fogg Dam, NT	Pied Heron Fogg Dam, NT	Great Egret Fogg Dam, NT
White-browed Crake Fogg Dam, NT	Glossy Ibis Fogg Dam, NT	Lemon-bellied Flycatcher Kakadu NP, NT	Crocodile Kakadu NP, NT	Nankeen Night Heron Kakadu NP, NT	Pheasant Coucal Kakadu NP, NT	Azure Kingfisher Kakadu NP, NT	Little Kingfisher Kakadu NP, NT	Pied Heron Kakadu NP, NT
Rainbow Bee-eater Kakadu NP, NT	Lotus Kakadu NP, NT	Wild pig Kakadu NP, NT	Little Pied Cormorant Kakadu NP, NT	Australian Pratincole Kakadu NP, NT	Green Pygmy-goose Kakadu NP, NT	Wandering Whistling Duck Kakadu NP, NT	Black-necked Stork Kakadu NP, NT	Brown Goshawk Kakadu NP, NT
Black-tailed Treecreeper Kakadu NP, NT	Aboriginal rock art Kakadu NP, NT	Sandstone Shrike-thrush Kakadu NP, NT	Chestnut-quilled Rock-Pigeon Kakadu NP, NT	Crocodile sign Kakadu NP, NT	Crocodile Kakadu NP, NT	Silver-crowned Friarbird Kakadu NP, NT	Jacky Winter Kakadu NP, NT	Paperbark Flycatcher Kakadu NP, NT
Collared Sparrowhawk Kakadu NP, NT	Rufous Whistler Kakadu NP, NT	Silver-backed Butcherbird Kakadu NP, NT	Little Woodswallow Kakadu NP, NT	Tawny Frogmouth Kakadu NP, NT	Banded Fruit-dove Kakadu NP, NT	Diamond Dove Pine Creek, NT	Blue-faced Honeyeater Pine Creek, NT	Great Bowerbird Victoria River, NT
Red-backed Kingfisher Timber Creek, NT	Agile Wallaby Victoria River, NT	Rufous Songlark Victoria Highway, NT	Red-browed Pardalote Victoria Highway, NT	Black-faced Woodswallow Victoria Highway, NT

Finches, Fairy-wrens & Robins

Finches and Fairy-wrens

Crimson Finch Stuart Highway, NT	Gouldian Finch Victoria Highway, NT	Gouldian Finch Victoria Highway, NT	Purple-crowned Fairy-wren Victoria River, NT	Purple-crowned Fairy-wren Victoria River, NT	Star Finch Timber Creek, NT	Yellow-rumped Mannikin Timber Creek, NT	Buff-sided Robin Stuart Highway, NT	Long-tailed Finch Pine Creek, NT
Long-tailed Finch Pine Creek, NT	Masked Finch Pine Creek, NT

Honeyeaters

Rufous-banded Honeyeater Lee Point, Darwin, NT	Black-chinned Honeyeater Timber Creek, NT	Red-headed Honeyeater Lee Point, Darwin, NT	Red-headed Honeyeater Darwin, NT	Yellow-tinted Honeyeater Victoria Highway, NT	Bar-breasted Honeyeater Kakadu NP, NT	Yellow-throated Miner Victoria Highway, NT	White-gaped Honeyeater Lee Point, Darwin, NT	Banded Honeyeater Stuart Highway, NT
Yellow-tinted Honeyeater Timber Creek, NT	Rufous-throated Honeyeater Victoria Highway, NT

Parrots etc

Parrots

Budgerigar Victoria Highway, NT	Galah Stuart Highway, NT	Hooded Parrot Pine Creek, NT	Red-collared Lorikeet Lee Point, Darwin, NT	Varied Lorikeet Stuart Highway, NT	Cockatiel Victoria Highway, NT

Darwin - Shorebirds

Darwin shorebirds

Shorebirds at sunrise Lee Point, Darwin, NT	Common Sandpiper Buffalo Creek, Darwin, NT	Eastern Curlew Lee Point, Darwin	Great Knot Lee Point, Darwin, NT	Brahminy Kite Buffalo Creek, Darwin, NT	Sanderling Lee Point, Darwin, NT	Greater Sand Plover Lee Point, Darwin, NT	Terek Sandpiper Lee Point, Darwin, NT

Darwin - other birds

Darwn - other birds

Rainbow Pitta Lee Point, Darwin, NT	Green-backed Gerygone Lee Point, Darwin, NT	Orange-footed Scrubfowl Lee Point, Darwin, NT	Rainbow Bee-eater Lee Point, Darwin, NT	Lemon-bellied Flycatcher Lee Point, Darwin, NT	Bar-shouldered Dove Lee Point, Darwin, NT	Shining Flycatcher Lee Point, Darwin, NT	Spangled Drongo Lee Point, Darwin, NT	Mangrove Gerygone Lee Point, Darwin, NT
Green Oriole Lee Point, Darwin, NT	Black Kite Lee Point, Darwin, NT	Black Butcherbird Buffalo Creek, Darwin, NT	Lemon-bellied Flycatcher Lee Point, Darwin, NT	Northern Fantail Lee Point, Darwin, NT	White-bellied Cuckoo-shrike Lee Point, Darwin, NT	Grey Whistler Lee Point, Darwin, NT	Yellow White-eye Lee Point, Darwin, NT	Helmeted Friarbird Lee Point, Darwin, NT
Torresian Imperial Pigeon Lee Point, Darwin	Chestnut Rail Buffalo Creek, Darwin, NT	Large-tailed Nightjar East Point Reserve, Darwin, NT