Jewels of the Forest Walkthrough

Lovely exhibit. Are there free-roaming animals in this area?

There's 15 or so species, lets see how many I can remember!!!

Nicobar pigeon
Emerald dove
Minandao bleeding heart dove
Palawan peacock pheasant
Red tailed laughing thrush
Blue crowned laughing thrush
Chestnut backed thrush
Hooded pitta
Java sparrow
Pekin robin
Asian fairy bluebird
White rumped shama

It's a lovely place to while away my lunchtime, especially since one of the Red tailed laughing thrush (my favourite species in there!) was handreared I think, sees my uniform and comes to hang out and plead with me so adorable...

So it's a southeast Asian aviary basically? Very nice.

That looks like a well-established rainforest - how old is the exhibit?

Yes! A south east asian exhibit would be an apt way to describe it... Don't think I had my thinking cap on that day or I might have said that eh!!!

The exhibit was opened in 2004 and was constructed by our own maintenance and landscaping departments

Lotte,

You know the size of this aviary?

Couldn't even guess Eduardo! It would probably take a minute to walk straight through, but I spend many a lunch hour in there just watching in peace

It's not small but it's certainly not huge!

Thanks.

Nice pictures from Durrell!

Many new ones coming up!

I have noticed that many herp keepers have a considerable interest in birds, although the reverse seems less often true.Is this a fair observation?