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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

Lichen
Lichen is actually a life-form that is the result of an inter-dependent relationship between two very different organisms; usually a fungus and an algae, (or a cyanobacteria, a common occurrence in the lichens lower down in the rainforest strata).
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Birds

Tropicbirds
Tropicbirds
Tropicbirds
Tropicbirds are elegant tern like birds. They are mainly white, and have distinctive long tail streamers. They are usually quite a bit bigger than terns, but as they usually only seen flying far above, they seem rather much more slight. They are usually seen very far away from continental mainland areas, but can be seen on tropical seashores on some of the more remote islands.
 

Mammals

Fruit Bats and Flying Fox
The latter group includes the old world flying foxes and is quite different from the 'micro-bats' Like the 'insect bats', these animals usually roost communally, hanging upside down. Unlike their smaller relatives, however, they tend not to sleep in dark places, but roost hanging off trees.
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