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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

Ferns
Ferns are an ancient group of plants that need a very moist environment in which to reproduce. They disperse by tiny dust-like spore that are released from sporophylls, small structures that are usually found on the underside of the frond (leaf). As would be expected from the wettest part of Australia, the highest diversity of ferns on the continent is in the north-eastern Queensland 'wet tropics'. Thus, ferns are a very obvious and dominant part of the tropical rainforest.
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Birds

Grebes
Grebes are an unusual group of birds that constitute their own order. Some of the larger grebes are well known for their spectacular mirror courtship displays, amongst much water splashing. The smaller grebes, often known as 'dabchicks' resemble baby ducks. Grebes are rarely observed on land. They even tend to nest on the water, often within reed beds. Individuals of some species may spend their entire life cycle on one lake. When underwater hunting for their prey, they propel themselves with their feet, not their wings.
Grebe
Australasian Grebe and reflections
 

Mammals

Dogs
The first animal to be deliberately introduced to Australia by humans was probably the dingo. This 'Australian Native Dog' is, despite common misconceptions, like all breeds of domestic dogs, merely a type of the Grey Wolf,Canis lupus.
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