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CONSERVATION RESERVE
Inala is a 1,500 acre private wildlife reserve located on the Southern end of beautiful Bruny Island.

Inala Nature Tours, excellent birding & wildlife tours of Tasmania, Australia and Internationally.
+ Inala Conservation Reserve & country cottage accommodation immersed in nature on South Bruny Island.
+ Inala Jurassic Garden, Nature Museum & Giftshop Inala is home to 95 species of birds, including many endangered species (Forty-spotted Pardalote, Tasmanian subspecies of Wedge-tailed Eagle, White-bellied Sea-eagle, white morph of the Grey Goshawk and Swift Parrot )
All of the 12 Tasmanian endemic birds have been seen here. The property is also an important breeding refuge for Swift Parrots, with 12 nest sites officially recorded in the summer of 2015-16. Forty species of native terrestrial orchids, an amazing diversity of plant species, and several species of mammals, reptiles and amphibians also occur on Inala. There are a number of walking tracks throughout the reserve, allowing access to different types of habitat and key wildlife viewing areas. Guests are welcome to use of the reserve for birding and exploring during their stay in one of the cosy cottages, and a map of the reserve can be found in each cottage. Several hides have been constructed in key viewing areas including a raptor hide and elevated viewing platform for Forty-spotted Pardalotes. NATURE TOURS
Over twenty six years Inala has gained a reputation for offering some of the best nature experiences on earth and is a top destination for international bird watchers. We offer tours of the Inala Reserve, Bruny Island, Tasmania, Australia and many exciting International destinations. Whether you are planning to spend a few days on our private reserve, or to take a longer tour to remote Australia, you can count on our commitment to making your experience unforgettable. Our tours are designed and led by Dr. Tonia Cochran and her expert team. Among us we have a diversity of talents, from qualified scientists to travel experts. We are united by our passion for wild Australia. Enjoy our offerings, and do contact us if you would like help to realise the Australian birding and wildlife journey of your dreams. ACCOMMODATION
Offering onsite cottage accommodation within the reserve, Inala offers the ultimate getaway for wilderness lovers with the Inala company also fully equipped to provide guiding services and coordinate visitor activities within the region. GARDEN & MUSEUM
The Inala Jurassic Garden is an educational facility highlighting the Gondwanan connections of a range of living plant families whose ancient ancestors thrived in the Jurassic period when the Gondwanan Supercontinent started splitting apart (about 185 million years ago) to form the southern land-masses that we now know as Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, South America and New Caledonia.

27/10/2026

Excellent sightings of Malleefowl at Cheynes Beach on the Inala South-Western Australia Endemic Birds & Wildlife tour currently underway, a positive indication that Malleefowl numbers may be recovering in that area. Cheynes Beach has also provided the group with views of all of the Big Three (Noisy Scrubbird, Western Bristlebird, Black-throated Whipbird) and several tiny Honey Possums feeding on the nectar of the candlestick banksias.

Photos by Cat Davidson

honeypossum westernbristlebird

27/10/2026

Are you looking for the best chance to see a small number of very special migrants from Papua New Guinea? Travel with Inala Nature Tours this January to seek Papuan Pitta, Black-winged Monarch and Buff-breasted Paradise-Kingfisher during their short migration to the Cape York Peninsula. While in the Kutini-Payamu (Iron-Range) National Park, we will also be seeking Palm Cockatoo, Papuan Eclectus, Magnificent Riflebird and more.

This small group tour travels with a maximum of 4 guests, and includes Cairns - Lockhart River return flight. Only 2 spaces are remaining. Contact Inala for more information.

📸A. Schulte, C. Kerr, M. Ley, R. Arculus, S. Bentley, P. Kelly, N. Hall, B. Jones, Y. Ota

26/10/2026

Inala Nature Tours are once again partnering with Tasmanian Land Conservancy to bring you a weekend of birding on the Inala Conservation Reserve on Bruny Island.

Join us on 7 and 8 November for a opportunity to tour the Inala reserve - home to all 12 of Tasmania's endemic bird species - accompanied by our specialist nature and conservation guides.

Choose a gentler lowland tour or a more strenuous hill walk with views across Cloudy Bay. Along the way, you’ll learn more about the birds, the habitat they depend on and the conservation work helping to protect them.

Thanks to our partnership with TLC, heavily discounted tickets are available to TLC supporters for this special weekend.

Places are limited, so book early: events.humanitix.com/bruny-birds-26

Photo credit: B. Thompson, J. Schwarz, A. Schwab

12/10/2026

Our inaugural 12-day Mallee & Broken Hill tour departs in a few days! What natural wonders might Tonia and Steve find with our valued guests? There’s plenty on offer in this journey through arid southern Australia including Black-breasted Buzzard, the dainty Mallee Emu-wren, three species of grasswren, and the impressive Malleefowl! We have backed this tour onto our Nullarbor Plains: Southern Specialties tour (29 Oct - 10 Nov) that focusses on the endemics and specials that inhabit the vast, wild southern outback and coastline stretching west of Port Augusta. The cast of fabulous possibilities here includes Nullarbor Quail-thrush, Naretha Blue Bonnet, Short-tailed Grasswren, Rufous Treecreeper, Rock Parrot, Scarlet-chested Parrot (with luck!) and Pink Cockatoo! We expect a bounty of good birds and other critters from these tours and look forward to sharing our findings with you 😊

📸 Black-breasted Buzzard (R. Singal), Malleefowl (B. O'Keefe), Pink Cockatoo (R. Singal), Short-tailed Grasswren (A. Shulte).

09/10/2026

Australia does pythons rather well! We are in fact home to just under half of the world's species of the Pythonidae family, and most of these in the tropical north. Pictured here are two of our 15 species: the stunning Green Python which is restricted in Australia to a tiny area in the Iron and Mcllwaith Ranges in Far North Queensland, where it inhabits rainforest and vine thickets; and the striking Black-headed Python which inhabits drier environments over tropical northern Australia. Are there any python listers out there, how many have you see

📸 Y. Ota (Green Python on tour in Cape York), R. Singal (Black-headed Python on tour in SW Queensland).

05/10/2026

Any guesses on this underwhelming looking species? It's rather special we think, not least because it's an endemic to a small area of higher-elevation rainforest in Queensland's Wet Tropics. It's a Tooth-billed Bowerbird of course! Interestingly it is our only bowerbird (excluding catbirds) that doesn't build a bower. Rather, it cleverly arranges leaves in a 'court' on the forest floor, and this is where the magic happens! This gem is one of the 4 possible bowerbirds (excluding Spotted Catbird) that you can see in the Wet Tropics, and most spectacular among these must be Golden Bowerbird!

Our annual Wet Tropics tour runs in the comfortable winter months (from 17 - 26 July 2027) and adjoins our Papua New Guinea tour for those looking to add Birds-of-Paradise to their lists. Click on the link in the bio for more information.

📸Alfred Shulte

02/10/2026

Is this the Black-shouldered or the rare Letter-winged Kite? Well, this image shows the diagnostics beautifully, so it's clearly the latter! Letter-winged have a bold black line through the underwing, and an oval eye patch with not a sniff of an eye-brow extending behind the eye. Interestingly, they are very much a boom or bust species with numbers increasing rapidly when rodent numbers (esp. Long-haired Rat) are high, and crashing in drought years when rodent numbers fall. Our guide Ramit did well to get this stunning shot on our South-west Queensland tour earlier this year.

📸 R. Singal

28/09/2026

Our inaugural December tour to Lord Howe is a guaranteed departure and looks set to be a fantastic tour. Pictured here are three of the possible tour highlights: Black-winged Petrel, Lord Howe Woodhen, and the very smart Sooty Tern. Other goodies include the elegant White Tern, Grey Ternlet (Noddy), and Kermadec Petrel. Oh yes, and the scenery is rather breathtaking too! Join the experienced and wonderfully knowledgeable Steve Davidson on this discovery of one of Australia's offshore gems! The tour runs 12 - 18 December 2026.

Click the link in the bio to find out more 🏝️

📸 A. McNab.

25/09/2026

We often associate parrots with their hefty beaks. Not so our very own grass parrots (genus Neophema). Just look at the bill barely breaking the facial profile on this gorgeous Blue-winged Parrot! The 6 members of this endemic genus manage to eat a variety of seeds, fleshy grass tips, flowers etc. with these rather flat bills. Impressive stuff! Sadly, the genus also includes one of our most endangered birds - Orange-bellied Parrot, but it also includes a parrot that breeds in rock crevices on islands (the delightful Rock Parrot), you cant make this stuff up!

📸Alfred Schulte

21/09/2026

Cape York is a rather special place! Our guide Yu Ota shared these pics with us from our successful August tours. Pictured are the fabulous Palm Cockatoo (amazingly their beak is so large and clunky it cant fully close), and the sought-after Red Goshawk. Other highlights included the rather sweet Yellow-billed Kingfisher, Magnificent Riflebird, Fawn-breasted Bowerbird, Papuan Eclectus and the quirky Trumpet Manucode to name a few. We also enjoyed some great reptiles (Green Python!), and mammals (the striking Spotted Cuscus!) ensuring the region lived up to it's reputation as a must-see destination!
Contact Inala for more information - link in bio.
📸Yu Ota

Address

320 Cloudy Bay Road
South Bruny, TAS
7150

Opening Hours

Monday	9am - 5pm
Tuesday	9am - 5pm
Wednesday	9am - 5pm
Thursday	9am - 5pm
Friday	9am - 5pm
Saturday	9am - 5pm
Sunday	9am - 5pm

Telephone

03 6293 1217

Website

https://inalanature.com.au/

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