Merimbula Kangaroo Tours in Merimbula, New South Wales | Eco tour agency

Merimbula Kangaroo Tours

Locality: Merimbula, New South Wales

Phone: +61 2 6495 6154

Address: Pambula Merimbula Golf Club 2548 Merimbula, NSW, Australia

Website: http://merimbulagolf.com.au

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23.01.2022 Hey ... I notice that the Winter Edition of the Golf Club's quarterly magazine has just been released. It contains a great article on the birds and animals seen on the Kangaroo Tours and is accessible for everybody at https://issuu.com/pambulamerimbulagolfc//pmgq_winter_issuu

22.01.2022 Depending on the season, we see an amazing array of birds on the tour. These are just a few.

20.01.2022 The Bowerbird's bower at Pambula Merimbula Golf Club is a "must see" stop on our regular tour agenda. Tour Guide Chris McMullen pointed out yesterday that our resident Bowerbird has been very active over recent days/weeks and has comprehensively rebuilt his bower in anticipation of the spring mating season. His attention to detail is just amazing, with brown sticks for the bower itself, yellow sticks for his dance floor and of course the assortment of blue ornaments. The num...ber of yellow sticks is astonishing, given that there are no yellow sticks anywhere within 100 metres or more of the bower. Each one has been flown in and meticulously positioned. So where's the Bowerbird, I hear you ask? Finding the bower is one thing we keep trying, but finding the ultra-shy Bower Bird at home is another. We often hear him calling from the bushes nearby, but he is extremely camera-shy.

19.01.2022 The mighty Kookaburra ... and yes - they do laugh at you when you mess up your most important golf shot. No manners ... just an overactive sense of humour. Photo from Glenda Graham

17.01.2022 Well ...from a big scary snake on Wednesday to a beautiful Monarch butterfly on Thursday. Never a dull moment on the kangaroo tours. (Photos by Glenda Graham)

15.01.2022 Thank you for the bananas ladies

13.01.2022 These are a few of our favourite tour memories and, if you check out these photos and those in the other albums, you can see we offer much more than just a Kangaroo experience.. We know that our guests have a lot more photographs, so why not share them here on @KangarooTours? We'd love to hear about your experience and share your photographs with our growing family of Tour Guests..

11.01.2022 Seen by the fairway bunker on the 5th hole ... a rather shy turtle. Basically, turtles live in or near water whereas tortoises only go to water to drink. Our turtles have webbed feet. Australia has no native land tortoises. Australia has both marine (6 of the 7 species worldwide) and terrestrial or freshwater turtles (24 of the 49 species worldwide). Basically tortoises are land creatures that usually have a domed shell, thick legs and club-like feet with no webbing between the toes. They live on land, eat mostly vegetables and only need a small dish of water to drink and mostly eat vegetation.

11.01.2022 What with the drought and all, it looks like we might be heading for an early spring. Spotted near the 17th tee, the Waterhens (aka Purple Swamphens) are already showing the blue iridescence we normally associate with spring. Amazing colourful birds with bright red beaks and "walk on water" feet.

07.01.2022 "Thank you Lola ... that's a very nice 'nana "

07.01.2022 Thanks for all the positive feedback about the Kangaroo Tours photo display in the foyer of the golf club. The photos on display have been taken from the albums on our Facebook page and are reaching an entirely new audience. Great to see lots of smiling faces and people enjoying a unique look at our wildlife.

04.01.2022 An iconic piece of Australia ... the kookaburra does indeed sit in the old Gum Tree at PMGC. (Photograph by Glenda Graham)

04.01.2022 A bit about the Satin Bowerbird The satin bowerbird (Ptilonorhynchus violaceus) is endemic to eastern Australia. Mature males have violet-blue eyes and are uniformly coloured black, however, light diffraction by the surface texture of the feathers results in an almost metallic sheen giving a deep shiny blue appearance. Immature males are coloured and marked the same as females and are often mistaken for them.... Females might be mistaken for the green catbird or spotted catbird with distinctively green/brown or otherwise entirely brown upper body and lighter under body with a distinct reticulated or scalloped pattern, but with very striking blue eyes. Like all bowerbirds, the satin bowerbird shows highly complex courtship behaviour. Mate choice in satin bowerbirds has been studied in detail. Males build specialized stick structures, called bowers, which they decorate with blue, yellow, and shiny objects, including berries, flowers, and plastic items such as ballpoint pens, drinking straws and clothes pegs. As the males mature they use more blue objects than other colours. Females visit these and choose which male they will allow to mate with them. In addition to building their bowers, males carry out intense behavioural displays called dances to woo their mates, but these can be treated as threat displays by the females. Nestbuilding and incubation are carried out by the females alone. Text from Wikipedia Photo courtesy of Wiki Loves Earth 2017.