The Migratory Birds aviary is located in the African section of the zoo, before the Crocodile River and the main Savanna enclosure with Giraffes. It starts with a typically Dutch Polder landscape, and continues with a Wetland part. Its slogan is „Follow our birds to Africa”.
Remarkable planting.If I were a bird in this aviary I would be able to visually forget about the visitors & if they were nice, quiet people I might be able to carry on as if they did not exist at all.Amazingly, this planting is far denser than many of those sad efforts that are supposedly sub-tropical or tropical in countless zoos.These "tropical" plantings with a few badly-chosen house plants from the local garden centre optimistically stuck into John Innes compost & corroded by copious amounts of white bird guano are often a complete joke & make the aviary depicted look positively luxuriant by comparison.A splendid effort deserving to be richly complimented & which I am sure will be much-imitated.
