Around 10 years ago, Frydenlund built three huge free-flight aviaries on its fields, each aviary measuring 3000 square meters (0.7 acres for our American members). While the aviaries are definitely great for birds to live in, they're not the most optimal places to watch birds - no walkthrough, very few viewing points and shrubbery everywhere to conceal the birds.
This was the third of the three aviaries to be built and houses African spoonbills, black-crowned night herons, and white peafowl.
Frydenlund Fuglepark, also known as "Danmarks Fuglezoo" ("Denmark's bird zoo"), is one of two bird parks in Denmark, the other one being Nordsjællands Fuglepark. They contrast each other somewhat in that Frydenlund focuses more on larger birds - such as waterfowl, pheasants and ratites - and has fewer rare species, mostly keeping birds that are easy to source in private aviculture. Besides birds, they also have four species of mammals.
Frydenlund is located in the middle of the countryside on the island of Funen in very pleasant surroundings. The exhibits themselves are also generally fine, but it's one of those zoos where you see a heavy contrast between new and old - the new free-flight aviaries are huge and luxurious, but there are also rows of tiny parrot aviaries that look like they haven't changed for many decades.
