Quetzalcoatlus
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Hi, I found one parc in Spain and almost nothing about it in english so I made one gallery on my web. I enclose the description in english and a link up to there.
In the September I decided to go to the place called Caňada de los Pájaros. If sometimes I said the most beautiful zoological institution I have ever seen is the holland parc for abandoned parrots Veldhoven which has broken the record of my visitors´ attendance so Caňada de los Pájaros is a very heavy rival for Veldhoven. It is the first reintroduction station on the Crested Coot (Fulica cristata) in the world and I think also currently the only place in Europe where the Crested Coot reproductS in the captivity. I was accompanied to Caňada by my friend José Luis.
BASIC IDEA OF THE PARC
This place was founded in 1986 in the space of the abandoned gravel-pit. Its owner Plácido had to built all the parc manually with no financial subvention and this state has stayed like this until now. Do not wait luxurious expositions because all the parc lives from the incomes of the visitors and the photographers. Parc is created of some ponds which get dry during the summer and despite of I was there in the period of dry when the number of the birds is the lowest, I was shocked by a huge density of birds.
Plácido´s biggest advantages are the long-term experiences from the field. This man has deserved my deep admiration because some species he breeds and some of them reproducts in the parc are very hard to maintain. I have to mention that he and his wife Maribel are the only employees of all the parc and all what you´ll see there is a piece of work of only two persons.
If I ignore lots of ducks, geese, storks and flamingos (mainly semiwild populations) he succesfully reintroduced more than 600 Crested Coots to the wild and he also have a succesful program of introduction of the Common Crane (Grus grus) in this part of Andalusia. Other species which are his targets of interest are e. g. Spanish Sparrow (Passer hispaniolensis), Squacco Heron (Ardeola ralloides), Purple Heron (Ardea purpurea), Pin-tailed Sandgrouse (Pterocles alchata) and others. The parc is really full of rare european bird species. To maintain the visitors´attendance he also looks for some exotic species to his spacious expositions – you can see here e. g. Blue-throated Piping-guan (Pipile cumanensis), American White Ibises (Eudocimus albus) or original non-hybridised Muscovy Ducks (Cairina moschata).
If you come to the Coto Doňana don´t forget to visit this extraordinary place which is not probably so comercially atractive as Papegaaienpark Veldhoven but has a great spirit inside and a lot of hard work is very visible here. Paying attention these things Caňada de los Pájaros wins for me in front of all other zoos I have seen this year.
THE LINK TO MY GALLERY:
txecoloco | Exkurze (ES): Ca?ada de los Pájaros - zoologické za?ízení roku 2009/2009´s zoological institution ? rajce.net
OFICIAL WEB OF THE PARC:
index
In the September I decided to go to the place called Caňada de los Pájaros. If sometimes I said the most beautiful zoological institution I have ever seen is the holland parc for abandoned parrots Veldhoven which has broken the record of my visitors´ attendance so Caňada de los Pájaros is a very heavy rival for Veldhoven. It is the first reintroduction station on the Crested Coot (Fulica cristata) in the world and I think also currently the only place in Europe where the Crested Coot reproductS in the captivity. I was accompanied to Caňada by my friend José Luis.
BASIC IDEA OF THE PARC
This place was founded in 1986 in the space of the abandoned gravel-pit. Its owner Plácido had to built all the parc manually with no financial subvention and this state has stayed like this until now. Do not wait luxurious expositions because all the parc lives from the incomes of the visitors and the photographers. Parc is created of some ponds which get dry during the summer and despite of I was there in the period of dry when the number of the birds is the lowest, I was shocked by a huge density of birds.
Plácido´s biggest advantages are the long-term experiences from the field. This man has deserved my deep admiration because some species he breeds and some of them reproducts in the parc are very hard to maintain. I have to mention that he and his wife Maribel are the only employees of all the parc and all what you´ll see there is a piece of work of only two persons.
If I ignore lots of ducks, geese, storks and flamingos (mainly semiwild populations) he succesfully reintroduced more than 600 Crested Coots to the wild and he also have a succesful program of introduction of the Common Crane (Grus grus) in this part of Andalusia. Other species which are his targets of interest are e. g. Spanish Sparrow (Passer hispaniolensis), Squacco Heron (Ardeola ralloides), Purple Heron (Ardea purpurea), Pin-tailed Sandgrouse (Pterocles alchata) and others. The parc is really full of rare european bird species. To maintain the visitors´attendance he also looks for some exotic species to his spacious expositions – you can see here e. g. Blue-throated Piping-guan (Pipile cumanensis), American White Ibises (Eudocimus albus) or original non-hybridised Muscovy Ducks (Cairina moschata).
If you come to the Coto Doňana don´t forget to visit this extraordinary place which is not probably so comercially atractive as Papegaaienpark Veldhoven but has a great spirit inside and a lot of hard work is very visible here. Paying attention these things Caňada de los Pájaros wins for me in front of all other zoos I have seen this year.
THE LINK TO MY GALLERY:
txecoloco | Exkurze (ES): Ca?ada de los Pájaros - zoologické za?ízení roku 2009/2009´s zoological institution ? rajce.net
OFICIAL WEB OF THE PARC:
index
