It is a decent size in my opinion. When you stand at the bottom, it is rather tall. From the treehouse part of the aviary, it is quite a drop. There is a lower window on the main path as well to see the teals and the wild turkeys that will live in the aviary's floor. The a majority residents of the aviary are all local birds that cannot be re-released, so most of the nearly 60 birds are not very big. The current aviary does not have bird off-exhibit holding areas with the exhibit and this one will have it connected.
If you look at the other photo you can see it is much bigger than seen here. It is still a small aviary but its not holding species like birds of prey. These species will be smaller and need less space. But there is alot of space next to the aviary so maybe there is room for a new exhibit in the future.
If you look at the other photo you can see it is much bigger than seen here. It is still a small aviary but its not holding species like birds of prey. These species will be smaller and need less space. But there is alot of space next to the aviary so maybe there is room for a new exhibit in the future.
I hope that, eventually, something is put into this aviary that a bird--any bird--could actually use. At this stage, all I can see is engineers spending lots of money on "belts and suspenders" structures that look like they could survive a nuclear blast.
The ground portion of the exhibit is actually larger than where the wild turkeys were living. A male and a female were living in the newly renovated snowy owl exhibit. Another female was living in the current aviary. I have posted several photos from the other side of the aviary I took last weekend before the main path was closed.
