Excellent photo. This is new since my visits last September. Is it perhaps in the second aviary on the right (where the African grey used to be, then the young Seriemas) as you reach the top of the hill with the Cottage Aviary on your left?
Excellent photo. This is new since my visits last September. Is it perhaps in the second aviary on the right (where the African grey used to be, then the young Seriemas) as you reach the top of the hill with the Cottage Aviary on your left?
No the seriemas are still there, with their chicks. These are round the corner towards the fish owls. The two aviaries next to the boundary fence and car park, which previously held eclectus and lories, now have pairs of hyacinthine macaws and Australian magpies.
On my previous visit a third Australian magpie was next to the seriemas, but there was a toco toucan there this time.
No the seriemas are still there, with their chicks. These are round the corner towards the fish owls. The two aviaries next to the boundary fence and car park, which previously held eclectus and lories, now have pairs of hyacinthine macaws and Australian magpies.
On my previous visit a third Australian magpie was next to the seriemas, but there was a toco toucan there this time.
Ah, thank-you - the final two aviaries on the left heading that way? Those aviaries held Eclectus and Double Yellow-headed Amazons (a lovely pair of birds) when I was there last September. I'm not going to be happy if the Amazons have gone! Presumably the Hyacinthine Macaws have been moved and are not a new pair as that would mean three pairs on display unless, of course, the months since my visit have seen the departure of one or both of the previous pairs.
Ah, thank-you - the final two aviaries on the left heading that way? Those aviaries held Eclectus and Double Yellow-headed Amazons (a lovely pair of birds) when I was there last September. I'm not going to be happy if the Amazons have gone! Presumably the Hyacinthine Macaws have been moved and are not a new pair as that would mean three pairs on display unless, of course, the months since my visit have seen the departure of one or both of the previous pairs.
You've got it. There have been a few changes in that section of aviaries. The first two in that row, next to the tortoises, are currently empty being modified to close off the far end with metal sheets to make shelters. The parrots on display on Sunday were rainbow lorikeets, the 2 pairs of hyacinthine macaws, yellow-backed chattering & Duivenbode's lory pairs and the red-fronted macaw. Plus, I presume, the Bourke's, hooded and PoW parakeets in the Desert House, which I saw a couple of weeks ago but missed it out this visit.
Ooh, no Citron-crested Cockatoos on display then. That would have been a major disappointment had I visited. It had been Blue-throated Macaws in the end aviary hadn't it? I hope both species will return to those aviaries when the modifications are complete. Last year after the cockatoos the sequence was Swainson's Lorikeets, Hyacinthine Macaws, Yellow-backed Chattering Lories, Duivenbode's Lories and then the Eclectus Parrots and Double Yellow-headed Amazons around the corner with the second pair of Hyacinthine Macaws opposite the Amazons and the Red-fronted Macaws opposite the Eclectus. Which pair of Hyacinthine Macaws has been moved please, and is there an empty aviary (vacated by the Hyacinthines) or is a non-parrot species occupying it? Also (sorry to be a nuisance) what, if anything, is in the first aviary up the hill next to the Seriemas please?
I do like the normal Bourke's Parakeets in the Desert House, they are lovely.
Which pair of Hyacinthine Macaws has been moved please, and is there an empty aviary (vacated by the Hyacinthines) or is a non-parrot species occupying it? Also (sorry to be a nuisance) what, if anything, is in the first aviary up the hill next to the Seriemas please?
This is like Pelmanism. I assume that the pair of hyacinthines next to the lorikeets have not been moved at all, so that the pair next to the Australian magpies were moved from across the path. The aviary where the hyacinthines were, next to the red-fronted macaw (I have never seen more than one, but that may just be bad luck), now holds a pair of green turacos, a pair of Madagascar turtle doves and a grey-winged trumpeter. The aviary next to the seriemas is the one with toco toucan, replacing the unpaired Australian magpie I saw at the end of last month.
Thank-you. Sorry, when I checked back I somehow missed your bit about the Toco Toucan (I think Yellow-shouldered Amazons were in there last year, having replaced Red-tailed Amazons?). I cannot remember how many Red-fronted Macaws I saw last year. It would have been a year or two earlier I photographed a well-grown chick.
