Wait. What? Why is it the Terry Pratchett Owl Parliament? Don't get me wrong, I'm all in favour of Terry's legacy living on, but what's the deal with this exhibit name? Unless they have a collection of Moreporks sitting on Ankhs then I'm really, really lost...
It is quite a nice addition and contains exhibits for snowy, burrowing, spectacled, scops, wood, horned owl species with lots of wooden adornments on the outside of the aviaries.
The rest of the park is variable in design and quality. The walk through aviary for African penguins is really nice and now home to the bank cormorants from the Living Coasts closed collection and there are nice planted aviaries for songbirds, turacos and pheasants species.
The humbolt penguins are on on a stone heavy island exhibit which looked a bit small for the number of penguins but they breed well here.
Years ago the seashore walk aviary was a highlight but now is showing its age. As are some of the older looking avairies for parrots and lories. Nice new looking cockatoo avairies are a step in the right direction though.
Seashore walk is still a good exhibit for birds but looks a bit frayed around the edges. Home to a range of species like inca terns, avocet, spectacled eider, smew, spoonbill and ibis.
I visited late on Saturday afternoon from 3 to 6 and had the park mainly to myself at the end.
All in all I would recommend a visit if you live close by. Highlight species for me were the bank cormorants, spectacled eidiers, horned owls, bali starling and Australian magpie.
@Dianamonkey many thanks for the write-up, but unfortunately I'm not exactly local, and with current restrictions in place it's doubtful that I'll be heading that far any time soon unfortunately. Sounds like a pleasant afternoon outing though.
