122 Pardalotes and Parrots
About this episode
Australia’s 2025 Top Tour Guide, Cat Davidson, shares the magic of Inala on Bruny Island - home to Forty-spotted Pardalotes, Swift Parrots and Tasmania’s other incredible birdlife.
Resources
Forty Spotted Pardalote recording by Barry Edmonston (XC794625) from xeno-canto.org
Swift Parrot recording by Ramit Singal
Meet the guest
Cat Davidson is a birding and ecology guide working currently as part of the Inala Nature Tours guiding team. She worked in Lamington National Park in lush subtropical Queensland as a bird guide and prior to that as a war & wildlife tour guide in the remote and windswept Falkland Islands. She now guides predominantly around Tasmania, but also travels around Australia to lead birding tours, often in West Australia and the Top End. Cat has been the coordinator for several of the Bruny Island Bird Festivals. She co-created and co-presented the Inala Beginners Guide to Birdwatching with friend and colleague Dr Cat Young, and in September 2025 Cat won both the Tasmanian Tour Guide of the Year award and then the Australian Tour Guide of the Year award.
This episode also contains voice recordings from Weekend Birder Meet-up participants Ramit Singal as well as Arimbi, Arwen, Jason and Jodie.
