Your New Zealand, Australia and New Caledonia natural history and birding experts

Nature Quest is a premier nature, botanical and birding tour operator in Australasia and New Caledonia. Join us to design your once-in-a-lifetime nature-focused adventure. We are specialists in designing natural history and custom tours based on a deep understanding of each country, and a passion for sharing and exploring our wild places. Nature Quest has three decades of experience in guiding and planning customised nature experiences. Our ever-developing tour operations offer perhaps the most definitive selection of nature, birding and educational journeys in Australasia and New Caledonia.

Our Upcoming Tours

Nature Tours

Experience the stunning landscapes and unique ecology of these isolated islands. This part of the globe has a diverse and unique array of fauna and flora and you will experience lush rain forests, stunning mountain-scapes and isolated islands where albatrosses, fur seals and dusky dolphins breed and live.

Botanical Tours

Our botanical tours offer you the chance to visit some of New Zealand’s most spectacular habitats. Our guides will take you to areas that are normally difficult to get to, where the mountains are magnificent, but you will also enjoy exploring beech forests, coastline and beautiful lakes. There is even the opportunity to take to the ocean to see sperm whales and albatrosses.

West Australia Wildflowers, Wildlife and Nature

The south-west of Western Australia is a vast botanical garden. The arid interior stands in stark contrast to a magnificent, scenically dramatic coast. Both contain a huge variety of spectacular flowering plants. Tall forest, woodlands, shrublands and heath are home to over 4,000 species - 80% of which grow nowhere else - a truly remarkable flora.

Aotearoa New Zealand Birding Tours

Birds are our specialty! Join us on a spectacular birding adventure, including all the “must-see” species: Rifleman, Saddleback, Rock wren, Kokako, Kiwi and many more. New Zealand is home to forty-five endemic birds, some of which, such as Saddleback, Kokako and Stitchbird are among the most endangered birds on Earth.

Tasmanian Wildlife and Birding Tours

Join us on a spectacular birding adventure, including all the “must-see” wildlife species: Echidna, Tasmanian Devil, Spotted Tailed Quoll, Eastern Quoll, Wombat, Orange-bellied Parrot, Swift Parrot, Forty-spotted Pardalote, Green Rosella, Yellow-throated, Strong-billed and Black-headed Honeyeaters, Tasmania is home to twelve endemic bird species. Our bird watching tours visit a diverse range of spectacular habitats and have an emphasis on the unusual endemic birds of the region.