Enjoying the winter sunshine inside the walk through Condor and Vulture Aviary, this Andean Condor looked awe inspiring and comical all at the same time.
Enjoying the winter sunshine inside the walk through Condor and Vulture Aviary, this Andean Condor looked awe inspiring and comical all at the same time.
when I was there in october they had just had a child attacked by this bird, not to worry though they didnt close it just put a staff member in with a sweeping brush to fight it off should it happen again!
They seem to be only able to have the Walk Through open if they have staff to station in there all the time now. Certainly now in the winter they have it closed - the summer seasonal staff gone of course - and a sign informs visitors the aviary will be open 12:30 - 1:00pm if anyone wishes to enter, and informs a keeper.
The day we visited I particularly wanted to enter, but come 12:30 finding a Keeper was next to impossible. Waiting five minutes with nobody turning up I set off in search of staff. Finding a girl in the Tropical House I suggested she use her radio to find out if someone was going to open up. (Cheeky perhaps, but people do it to me at my work, so why not?!!) Five more minutes passed before another girl showed up and told me I had to wait in the entrance while she shooed the Condor (the pair to the one in this pic) off the boardwalk with a brush.
Not wishing to feed any paranoia about large birds of prey eating babies, but is that why this particular lady condor looks so pleased with herself, because she's just swallowed someone's kid?
