Dyrenes Verden's most advertised exhibit is the huge free-flight aviary which can be entered by the guests. With its 150 meters, it is Denmark's longest aviary (though there are other aviaries in Denmark that are larger in surface area), and it houses a large percentage of the zoo's species. Landscaping and planting are still not finished, so the aviary gets barer and barer the further you walk into it.
There was no signage for the free-ranging species (in general way too many of the zoo's exhibits lack signage), but I saw the following species:
- Wood duck (Aix sponsa)
- Golden pheasant (Chrysolophus pictus)
- Indian peafowl (Pavo cristatus)
- Blue-and-yellow macaw (Ara ararauna)
- Blue-fronted amazon (Amazona aestiva)
- Budgerigar (Melopsittacus undulatus)
- Cockatiel (Nymphicus hollandicus)
- Crimson rosella (Platycercus elegans)
- Galah (Eolophus roseicapillus)
- Green-thighed parrot (Pionites leucogaster)
- Green-winged macaw (Ara chloropterus)
- Grey parrot (Psittacus erithacus)
- Mealy amazon (Amazona farinosa)
- Black-breasted thrush (Turdus dissimilis)
- European pond turtle (Emys orbicularis)
- Hermann's tortoise (Testudo hermanni)
- Leopard tortoise (Stigmochelys pardalis)
- Red-footed tortoise (Chelonoidis carbonaria)
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Dyrenes Verden Filskov is one of the newest animal-related attractions in Denmark, opened in 2019. Dyrenes Verden (in English: "The world of animals") is actually a chain of pet stores, but when the branch in Filskov - a village in Central/Southern Jutland - was handed over to its current owner, he decided to turn part of it into a tiny zoo with entry.
Dyrenes Verden Filskov doesn't yet have a zoo license, so they only keep animals that private households are allowed to keep here in Denmark, but it's run by trained zookeepers so the expertise is higher than in many similar places, and there are many exotic species that you rarely see elsewhere in Danish zoos. The majority of the collection consists of birds, but they also keep a handful of mammals and tortoises.
Because it's a very new zoo being repurposed from a pet store, many of the exhibits - especially the indoor exhibits for birds - are small, sometimes even extremely so, but there is continual improvement, and since the zoo opened right before the economic crisis that is Covid-19, they have probably also struggled to fund new exhibits and renovations.
