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The village in the rainforest
The rainforest around Kuranda has been home to the Djabugay people for more than 10,000 years. Europeans settled here in 1885, and the railway from Cairns reached Kuranda in 1891. Visitors have come since the early 1900s, and from the 1970s Kuranda called itself the village in the rainforest.


A family business since 1980
Birdworld Kuranda, in the Kuranda Heritage Markets on Rob Veivers Drive, has been locally owned and family run since 1980. It keeps more than 350 birds of almost 60 species in a planted habitat of ponds, water features and native and exotic plants.
Birds from near and far
The collection mixes birds of Far North Queensland, such as the endangered southern cassowary, with species from much further away, such as blue-and-gold macaws from South America. A separate finch aviary holds more than ten finch species.

