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A private tour to see Sydney's real flying foxes in their natural habitat, led by a guide known as 'Bat-man.'
A private tour for your group only, the first tour in Sydney to visit real flying foxes (fruit bats) in their genuine natural habitat.
This is a private tour for your group only, led by a real local guide known as "Bat-man" — the first to offer tours to see Sydney's genuine flying foxes in their natural habitat.
A popular starting point — every Voyzo itinerary is fully customizable, so we'll shape the order and stops around your group.
Meeting point in Sydney.
The first tour of its kind in Sydney.
Known locally as "Bat-man."
No other travelers.
Back to your hotel, home, or the airport — whenever your day wraps up.
A private tour for your group only, the first tour in Sydney to visit real flying foxes (fruit bats) in their genuine natural habitat. This is a private tour for your group only, led by a real local guide known as "Bat-man" — the first to offer tours to see Sydney's genuine flying foxes in their natural habitat.
The grey-headed flying fox (Pteropus poliocephalus) is Australia's largest bat species, with a wingspan that can stretch close to a metre, a fox-like face, and the distinctive mantle of orange-grey fur around its neck that gives it its name. Unlike the microbats most people picture when they hear "bat," flying foxes are megabats that navigate and find food by sight and smell rather than echolocation, and they feed almost entirely on the nectar, pollen, and fruit of native trees — which makes them one of the most important pollinators and seed-dispersers in Australia's eastern forests, capable of covering tens of kilometres in a single night's foraging.
The species carries real conservation weight: it has been listed as Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List and under Australia's national environment law, and it's also listed as a threatened species in New South Wales. Sydney itself has a genuine history with these animals — a large flying-fox colony lived for decades in the Royal Botanic Garden before a long relocation program moved them on to protect heritage trees, and since 2013 Wolli Creek, in Sydney's inner south-west, has hosted a permanent camp that numbers in the thousands during peak season. Seeing them up close, hanging and stirring in a roost by daylight, is a very different experience from the brief glimpse most people get of flying foxes silhouetted against a dusk sky.
As with any genuinely wild-animal encounter, the tour is honest that exact behaviour on any given day — how active the colony is, how close you can comfortably get — depends on the animals themselves, the weather, and the season, not a script. What's consistent is a knowledgeable local guide who has built real, specialised expertise around this one species, at a time this project has documented as one of the few tours of its kind in Sydney.
Every Voyzo tour is a starting point — tell us what you have in mind and we'll build it.
