Adult male in the large mixed aviary beside the walled garden. Flamingo Gardens, Olney (which was opened to the public by Christopher Marler), 12th June 1974.
Adult male in the large mixed aviary beside the walled garden. Scanned from a Kodachrome transparency. Flamingo Gardens, Olney (which was opened to the public by Christopher Marler), 12th June 1974.
Adult male in the large mixed aviary beside the walled garden. Scanned from a Kodachrome transparency. Flamingo Gardens, Olney (which was opened to the public by Christopher Marler), 12th June 1974.
I have a few, which I will be in my files. But they will need scanning, so don't hold your breath. I only visited once, but I remember getting photos of kelp goose and a Caribbean flamingo with its egg (nesting very close to the public) plus white-tailed eagle and perhaps great bustard (though as I remember, that photo was lousy so I may have thrown it away). I do remember how the birds of prey had been fed with deer carcases - which I presume were culls or roadkill.
I have a few, which I will be in my files. But they will need scanning, so don't hold your breath. I only visited once, but I remember getting photos of kelp goose and a Caribbean flamingo with its egg (nesting very close to the public) plus white-tailed eagle and perhaps great bustard (though as I remember, that photo was lousy so I may have thrown it away). I do remember how the birds of prey had been fed with deer carcases - which I presume were culls or roadkill.
Beautifull picture of this rare bird. Do you know more about this specimen ( when was it obtained, from who and where did it went or when did it die ? ).
The only other place in the UK in which the species was kept was London and at the moment none can be seen in the UK.
Beautifull picture of this rare bird. Do you know more about this specimen ( when was it obtained, from who and where did it went or when did it die ? ).
The only other place in the UK in which the species was kept was London and at the moment none can be seen in the UK.
The only thing I know is that the International Zoo Yearbooks list a single bird in 1972 and a pair of these cranes at Olney from 1973 to 1977, but not thereafter.
