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Educational Tours Australia

Educational Tours Australia (ETA) runs nature-based and other educational tours and programmes for schools, universities, colleges, and various special interest groups.

students at a waterhole

Tours and programmes include our 3, 7 & 10 day biology & ecosystems study programme , and our more holiday based activity & sightseeing tour . There are also some "Trip reports" of our previous tours and programmes.

We are a small company with biology and ecotourism qualified staff . When you make enquiries, you will be dealing with the guides directly. Apart from our set itineraries, given enough lead time we can also develop an itinerary for your group that focuses on many different special interest subjects, including ecotourism, birdwatching and geological study. We also hire out Damon Ramsey and Jane Moores to tour companies and organizations as Biology and Ecotourism guides & lecturers.

ETA is based in Cairns (North Queensland) and specializes in what we think is the best part of Australia. However, our itineraries have also included other parts of the country.

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Study Tours

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    Included here are our most frequently asked questions. They are being updated and added to all the time; if you cannot see your particular question here, please feel free to email us .

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Plants

Syzygium: australian 'apples' and lilly-pillies
There are about 500 species in the genus Syzygium, with almost 60 species in Australia. The flowers are often showy, and dominated by many colourful shaving brush like stamens. They develop fleshy fruits that are also often colourful.
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Birds

Herons
Egret
Egret
This group includes the herons, night herons, egrets and bitterns. All of these birds are in the heron family, and the terms ‘heron’ and ‘egret’ are often used interchangeably and mean different things in different parts of the world for different people. They are only common names and do not currently correspond to any scientific or biological grouping. The original historical definition of the name 'egret' came from certain species of white egrets that were hunted for their filamentous plumes, or 'aigrette' and this is where the name egret come from. Many of the Ardea species are large, rather elegant mainly whitish birds that all look rather similar. They usually wade through shallow water in slow movements, often freezing, looking for fish and other underwater prey and snatching them suddenly with sharp beaks.
 

Mammals

Echidna
It has recently been recognized that there are at least 3 species of echidnas. Most of these inhabit the jungles of New Guinea. There is one very widespread species found in Australia. It is an unmistakable animal; about the size of a small cat, it is covered with brown spines, has a long beak-like nose and tiny, squinty eyes. The Echidna walks with a distinctive rolling gait.
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