Tropical Birdland Tropical bird land

I've been a few times en-route to Twycross or Drayton Manor.

Its a bird farm that has expanded a little and opened to the public. Parrots are still bred in quantity there and sold.

The collection of parrots is fairly substantial but there is nothing very unusual. Aside from psittacines, there are Emus, a few owls and some passarines.

The centre is best known for its free-flying parrots. Several species are free to come and go whenever they feel. Apparently they all return to their cages in the evenings to roost. Food can be purchased from the entrance to feed the free-flyers which will quite happily come and land on you.

Guyanan Toucanets are probably the highlight for an enthusiast.
 
The simiarity to Bird World ends with the fact that the collection is one of birds. The setting is different, the size is different, the quality of the exhibits is different, the very nature of the collections and their respective areas of expertise are different.

Sorry Tigerlemurguy, Tropical Birdland might remind you of Bird World but it doesn't me.
 
Tigerlemurguy said:
i did say "minature" but i have never been to tropical birdland
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I have to agree with paradoxurus the only similarity is that they both keep birds,tropical birdland has a very home made feel to it where as birdworld is built to last.Tigerlemurguy if you`ve never been to a collection why make a comment about it when you have no first hand knowledge of the place of what the place is like??
 
zoogiraffe said:
Tigerlemurguy if you`ve never been to a collection why make a comment about it when you have no first hand knowledge of the place of what the place is like??
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New format for Zoobeat, new name for Zoobeat, same insistence from some that their ignorance should not bar them from passing comments. It's very odd.
 
sooty mangabey said:
New format for Zoobeat, new name for Zoobeat, same insistence from some that their ignorance should not bar them from passing comments. It's very odd.
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Well if you`ve never visited a place how can you comment on what it looks like as photos and websites can give a very distorted view,on what a place looks like i can think of a few places i`ve visited that looked good on the website or in photos that i have seen but when you actually see it for yourself its a different story.
 
For the record, he didn't say it reminded him of what it looked like, it only reminded him of another birdpark. Not that big a stretch of the imagination.

Not worth banging him over the head for...

And for whoever goes there, photo's plz :)
 
"rubs head" ouch that hurt zoogiraffe, and yes i suppose my comment was a wee bit dumb
 
I went in 1989 which is why I haven't posted until now. A visit 19 years ago hardly qualifies me to comment on the current state of the park. For the record I thought it was quite good. Saw my first ever Hahn's macaws and Great-billed Parrots there.
 
Ok well when you have all stopped bickering!!!!!!!!!!!!! :o I went yesterday. It was ok. They only had a pair of Snowies as far as birds of prey went. Lots of parrots. Loved the fact that some of them really were flying freely. Fell in love with a chattering Lory, which fell in love with me and I had to remove him several time before entering avaries. It did indeed look homemade (I am not one to comment on that though) and some areas looked like they needed attention, although with a load of chewing beack around it must be impossible to keep the place in one pices. The enclosures were clean and the staff frindly. I could not find them listed under my zoo licence list, they operate under a pet shop licence instead. They had a board up with birds currently for sale. I am not well up on my parrots I am afraid, there was a pair of Hyacinths macaws, a few species of Toucan, Black parrots which were a new one on me and two parrots which looked like minature macaws. It was a pleasant afternoon out. I most enjoyed trying to spot the macaws chasttering in the trees. Will put some pics up in the gallery.
 
Had a very pleasant hour here yesterday in the company of @Brum. As previously said by other visitors there are a lot of Parrots all of which are listed on ZTL. The highlight for me were the Kea and, as you might expect, these were not free flying but many of the others were. I was a bit underwhelmed by how small some of the cages were but then I realised the door was open and they were able to fly around as they wished and they were only shut in at night for their protection.

There were some great children's play areas and I suspect a lot of the business was due to parents bringing for parrots and play.

As you leave you pass through an area of more than 20 parrots on perches who are waiting to have visitor encounters. Not for the ornithophobic but I enjoyed it immensely. If I ever go again (and probably I wont unless they get Emperor Penguins) I would buy the parrot food on sale there and feed them, although most of them seemed quite stuffed already. Worth a visit if you are near or are a Parrot fanatic.
 
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Some friends visited today and they've confirmed that the gardens still have Budgerigars, contrary to what Zootierliste says. (I saw them on my last visit in 2019 also).
 
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