Lloyd Nielsen's Birding Australia - Birdwatching Resource

Welcome to

Promoting the birds of Australia
to the birders of the world

Your guide to the best books and relevant information for birders visiting Australia and Australians birding at home.

Field ornithologist and bird researcher, Lloyd Nielsen, is the first Queenslander to receive the prestigious J.N. Hobbs Medal, awarded in 2014 by BirdLife Australia for outstanding amateur contributions to Australasian ornithology.

Website is being rebuilt – to order my new book, “The Identification Guide to the Difficult Small Birds of Australia”, please contact me at lloyd@birdingaustralia.com.au

Birding Australia is a directory created by a birder with a lifetime of experience studying Australia’s birds in the field. Setting a trend when first published in 2002, it is available in two editions ~ one designed for international birders visiting Australia for the first time, the other for Australian birders.

My Shop contains carefully chosen, competitively priced books, bird song CDs (including BOCA and Nature Sound) and other products to enhance your birding experiences.

The information in A birdwatcher's guide to Australia (PDF), published as part of the feature story Away with the birds in Australian Geographic No. 90 (April - June 2008), was sourced from Lloyd Nielsen's Birding Australia - A Directory for Birders.

Lloyd also assisted with information in the Pocket Guide Our most Rare and Remarkable Birds in the same issue.

A birdwatcher's guide to Australia is reproduced with the kind permission of Australian Geographic.