Dunedin Botanic Garden - Aviary Dunedin Botanic Gardens Species List

[Najade]

As per my visit on the 30.09.17

Botanic Gardens aviaries:
Lower Level (from right to left):
South Island Kaka

(?)
Golden Pheasant
King Parrot
Chattering Lorikeet
Bronze Crested Dove
Musk Lorikeet
Crimson-winged Parrot
Red-rumped Parrot

Kea

Middle Level (from right to left):
Right:
Plum-headed Parakeet
King Parrot
Bourkes Parrot
+pigeon

Crimson-winged Parrot

Indian Ring-necked Parrot

Crimson-winged Parrot

Musk Lorikeet

Left:
Elegant Parakeet
Fire Finch
White-fronted Gouldian Finch

Fire Finch
Cordon Finch
+parrot

Mulga Parrot
Cuban Finch

Turquoise Parakeet*
Fiji Parrot Finch*

Plum-headed Parakeet
Cuban Finch

Musk Lorikeet

Elegant Parakeet
Black-headed Gouldian

(?)
Gouldian Finch
Diamond Dove
Jacarini Finch
Siskin Finch
Namanqua Dove
Red-faced Parrot Finch

Upper level (from left to right):
Left:
South Island Kaka

Red-crowned Parakeet

Kea*

Yellow-crowned Parakeet

Right:
Sulphur-crested Cockatoo*
Blue and Yellow Macaw

Sulphur-crested Cockatoo

Long-billed Corella
Opaline Red-rumped Parrot
Blue Red-rumped Parrot

Scarlet Macaw
Blue and Gold Macaw

Ecclectus Parrot

Signed: Derbyan Parrot*
(But had Scarlet Macaw)

Yellow-tailed Black Cockatoo
Red-tailed Black Cockatoo

Blue and Yellow Macaw

Red-tailed Black Cockatoo

Scarlet Macaw

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*= (not seen)
(?)= didn't check if inhabitants match labels

 

[Chlidonias]

Bronze Crested Dove

What is this? Crested Pigeon (Ocyphaps lophotes)? Or Bronzewing (Phaps chalcoptera)?

Fiji Parrot Finch*

Nice. I actually didn't know if these were still in New Zealand or not!

 

[Najade]

What is this? Crested Pigeon (Ocyphaps lophotes)? Or Bronzewing (Phaps chalcoptera)?

Ocyphaps lophotes

Nice. I actually didn't know if these were still in New Zealand or not!

I didn't see them, so can't promise that they are still here.

 

[Najade]

Checking my pictures, there were also Java Sparrows in one of the bigger aviaries.

 

[Pertinax]

When did the Aviaries in the Botanic garden open? I was a fairly frequent visitor in there during my stay in the early 1990's- don't remember any birds then.

 

[Chlidonias]

When did the Aviaries in the Botanic garden open? I was a fairly frequent visitor in there during my stay in the early 1990's- don't remember any birds then.

There have been aviaries at the site since the 1860s (originally for the Acclimatisation Society). The current aviaries were built from the 1940s, although they were in a different place in the gardens. They were moved to their current location in 1985.