This aviary is now two years old, and the plants are really growing well, with the vines even growing against the chainlink, creating a very green natural barrier between this aviary and the rest of the zoo. This place gets more beautiful every day!
This aviary is now two years old, and the plants are really growing well, with the vines even growing against the chainlink, creating a very green natural barrier between this aviary and the rest of the zoo. This place gets more beautiful every day!
Since my previous visit in March a lot of plants have been added, and a lot of extra perches as well. Because of this the aviary as a whole seems a lot denser, and the birds are a lot less shy than they once were, with the hammerkops, whistling ducks, rollers and hornbills often coming very close.
(African olive-pigeon and Hooded vulture have been held in here previously, but didn't work out so well so were taken out again.)
It is definitely very enjoyable to see rollers in an aviary large enough to do the soaring flight they do, and to see the 6 fowl species, egrets, spoonbills and plovers interacting with the buffaloes... I hope they continue managing the different species combinations as attentively as they have now, because while very well-stocked it doesn't feel crowded at all. Perhaps some oxpeckers would be a nice addition, if the holes in the mesh are small enough?
