@birdsandbats This sign is very misleading because none of these species are kept by the zoo. The three aviaries beyond the sign are, instead, home to little corellas, galahs, and eclectus parrots.
As far as a review goes, that is my eventual goal... I hope to put together a proper write-up of my entire time in South Africa, which is what I had originally intended before life got in the way!
@birdsandbats for absolutely sure, a South African zoo can't have lyrebirds, riflebirds, mallee scrubfowl nor satin bowerbirds, now or in the near future!! Only the tawny frogmouth is a reasonably acquirable species outside of Australia. The others are rare even in Australian zoos, I think - and the lyrebird maybe absent at all from captivity (not sure). The signage is about unique birds of Australia, not about Australian birds kept at this zoo Maybe they put them next to an aviary of easy-to-get Aussies such as galahs, kookaburras, masked lapwings and the like.
I read about one of the Lyre birds at Healesville Sanctuary recently which spoke of it as being one of only 6 lyre birds in captivity. I was rather surprised to read that as they are quite common in the wild near where I live. We also have Satin Bower birds in our garden most days, and I live in suburbia but not far from bush land
