Part of the Wollemi Aviary

23/10/11

This is probablyonly half of the total aviary. It is truly spectacular.

So I visited Taronga during the week and thought I'd post a few comments on some of the things that got my attention rather than a whole review.

Definitely one of the best aviaries that I've ever seen. I like how it focuses on a specific region, similar to the Forest Gallery at Melbourne Museum. Unfortunately I didn't get to see a platypus or brush-tailed rock wallaby.

What is kept in this aviary?

threeple61 said:

What is kept in this aviary?

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According to Wikipedia (*not sure if this is accurate):
platypus, short-beaked echidna, brush-tailed rock wallaby, Australasian grebe, hardhead, masked lapwing, bush stone-curlew, little pied cormorant, laughing kookaburra, sacred kingfisher, yellow-tailed black cockatoo, gang-gang cockatoo, scaly-breasted lorikeet, eastern rosella, superb parrot, red-rumped parrot, rose-crowned fruit dove, wonga pigeon, brush bronzewing, dollarbird, Australasian figbird, noisy pitta, superb lyrebird, black-faced cuckoo-shrike, white-browed babbler, satin bowerbird, regent bowerbird, striped honeyeater, regent honeyeater, diamond firetail, eastern water dragon, eastern blue-tongue lizard, Cunningham's skink, eastern water skink, southern leaf-tailed gecko, eastern long-necked turtle

PAT said:

Definitely one of the best aviaries that I've ever seen. I like how it focuses on a specific region, similar to the Forest Gallery at Melbourne Museum. Unfortunately I didn't get to see a platypus or brush-tailed rock wallaby.

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I agree. I loved this aviary. I didn't see platypus or echidna in here either, but I did see the rock wallabies.

Jabiru96 said:

23/10/11

This is probablyonly half of the total aviary. It is truly spectacular.

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More like one-sixth or one-seventh.