Black Palm Cockatoo Exhibit

Aug. 3rd, 2011.

A long excerpt from my 2011 review sums up this aviary:

There are what seems like hundreds of silver metal aviaries dotted throughout the zoo’s grounds, and many of the enclosures are the same size of about 5 feet in width and maybe 20 feet in length. They are long, narrow rectangles and something that would be seen in an off-exhibit area of a major zoo but here they plague the grounds like rampant locusts. There are some adequate aviaries but of the innumerable ones that I saw perhaps the only exhibits that were impressive were the large Andean condor and king vulture aviaries.

African walk-through aviary: Some of the birds were in separate side exhibits (West African crowned crane, East African crowned crane, blue crane, African pied crow) while others were free-flying: white-cheeked turaco, vulturine guinea, western-grey plantain eater, Abdim’s stork, Hadada ibis, purple swamphen, cape thick-knee, grey hornbill, fulvous tree duck, white-faced tree duck, cape teal and a blue duiker.

Ratites – Ostrich (2 exhibits), emu (2 exhibits), rhea and cassowary.

Partial species list, and some of these birds can amazingly be found in 5-6 different aviaries around the zoo: Hyacinth macaw, severe macaw, scarlet macaw, green-winged macaw, blue + gold macaw, military macaw, red-fronted macaw, Moluccan cockatoo, sulphur-crested cockatoo, ducorp’s cockatoo, black palm cockatoo, umbrella cockatoo, African grey parrot, white-crowned parrot, hawk-headed parrot, red-rumped parrot, eclectus parrot, blue-fronted Amazon parrot, yellow-headed Amazon parrot, greater vasa parrot, Alexandrian parakeet, Derbyan parakeet, plum-headed parakeet, Indian ringneck parakeet, red-legged seriema, Lady Ross’s turaco, violet turaco, white-cheeked turaco, red-crested turaco, Guinea turaco, western grey plantain eater, vulturine guinea, African pied crow, nicobar pigeon, oscellated turkey, saddle-billed stork, blue crane, white-naped crane, demoiselle crane, West African crowned crane, East African crowned crane, Eurasian eagle owl, crested wood partridge, glossy starling, Reeve’s pheasant, golden pheasant, silver pheasant, Lady Amherst’s pheasant, plush-crested jay, Collie’s magpie jay, trumpeter hornbill, white-thighed hornbill, Egyptian goose, Andean goose, lesser Magellan goose, mute swan, whooper swan, black swan, greater curassow, helmeted curassow, red-wattled curassow, grey-handed chachalaca, masked lovebird, peach-faced lovebird, Java sparrow, zebra finch, society finch, white ibis, scarlet ibis, Abdim’s stork, crested screamer, buff-crested bustard, Abyssinian ground hornbill and Leadbeater’s ground hornbill.