header image
Home arrow About Us arrow Our Guides
Phil Gregory PDF Print E-mail
Written by Phil & Sue Gregory   
Image
Phil at the Frio Bat Cave in Texas
Phil has been interested in birds since the demise of the steam trains when he was about 11. Born in Southampton, England he first came to Australia in 1977, but got sidetracked, and spent the next twenty years living and birding in Nigeria, Zambia, the Falkland Islands and Papua New Guinea. He is currently working on a field guide to the Birds of New Guinea and the Bismarck Archipelago. He has also written species and family accounts for three volumes of the Handbook of the Birds of the World covering monarchs, bristle birds, the Acanthizidae and berrypeckers and longbills, and is involved as an advisor with the IOC and their World Checklist and Recommended English Names of Birds projects.He is the editor of Muruk, the journal of the Papua New Guinea Ornithological Society and is the author, amongst other things, of The Birds of the Ok Tedi Region and various notes and papers on Papua New Guinean birds. He is a well-known tour leader, working for Field Guides Inc. and Sicklebill Safaris, and is one of Australia's foremost birders. He is also one of the most experienced New Guinea guides with over 40 tours led there since 1998.

Read more...
Dr Guy Dutson PDF Print E-mail
Written by Phil & Sue Gregory   
Image
Guy and Long-legged Warbler on Viti Levu, Fiji
Guy Dutson is a world authority on Pacific birds and has led many tours to the region. He established and ran the BirdLife International Pacific programme from 2000-2005, being based in the U.K. and Fiji. Working for BirdLife and as a tour leader enabled him to visit most of the Pacific islands as well as many Asian and African countries. Before working for BirdLife he spent a year researching birds of Melanesia (PNG to New Caledonia) for a forthcoming field guide and series of papers.

Read more...
Jun Matsui PDF Print E-mail
Written by Phil & Sue Gregory   
Image
Jun Matsui
With a lifetime interest in wildlife in general Jun started bird guiding in 1993 when he worked as a volunteer ranger at the Hikarigaoka nature park in Tokyo, Japan. After working for the Japanese Environment Agency where he collected and managed data and at several reserves where he was involved in setting up environmental education projects and guiding as well as general management, he first arrived in Australia in 1999. Spending a year traveling around and volunteering at various bird hotspots including Broome Bird Observatory he eventually took a job as a specialist bird tour guide for inbound Japanese groups, based in the tropical Far North Queensland town of Cairns. He has been involved in several bird publications and is the author of the soon to be released. Japanese language field guide to the birds and wildlife of the Cairns/Atherton Tablelands area. Jun joined Sicklebill Safaris in 2007.