Paradise Park Good place

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diane monkey

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Visted here in July 2011

Great small park. lots of birds.
nice small area for petting farm children are able to feed the farm animals. as they have a keeper with bucket of food.

little train ride in the park.

Apart from birds and farm they have red pandas, otters.

if you love birds this is the place for you.
 
I am a big lover of Paradise Park other than the "we know best" commentary that accompanies the Free-Flying Bird Show (and the "Barnaby, Barnaby" bit, but he wasn't in it last year anyway). Unfortunately I manage only an annual visit during which I usually purchase ten cups of nectar at the Lorikeet feeding. I don't know if they are still doing it, but last year three young Military Macaws were realeased from what was the Big Flight (not so big now) at the end of the FFBS and it was wonderful. Paradise Park is aptly named. I like "Carrot Time" too.
 
a new female arrived 5 months ago now!! and has settled in amazingly. she is named jai-li and they have started showing sighs of breeding!
 
Kifaru Bwana said:
Could not access the link sadly.

Are these blue throated macaws captive bred or is this their entire flock?
What is the plan in Bolivia for them?
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here's the article (hence why I almost always quote articles I link to, because otherwise you often later get a dead link that nobody can read!)
Conservationists have flown six endangered macaws from Britain to Bolivia in hopes that they can help save a species devastated by the trade in wild animals.

The blue-throated macaws arrived last week at a conservation center in northeastern Bolivia, close to their natural habitat, and the local Noel Kempff Foundation said Tuesday it hopes to breed or release them.

Such birds were long captured for sale as pets and no more than 130 of the blue-throated macaws are believed to still exist in the wild.

The six were sent to Bolivia by the Paradise Park zoo in England's Cornwall district that bred the six birds.
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a bit more info on here (also birds from USA and Canada being released):
BBC News - Rare macaws bred in Cornwall to be flown to Bolivia
Six rare parrots which have been bred in Cornwall are being flown to a new life in the wild in Bolivia.

The Blue Throated Macaws are heading to South America, 6,000 miles away (9,660 km) from their home at Paradise Park in Hayle.

It is part of a project to re-populate parrots in the wild organised by the World Parrot Trust based in Cornwall.

The trust said current figures show up to 120 Blue Throated Macaws live in the wild in Bolivia.

The numbers have reduced by more than 50% compared to 2007, when there were 250 in Bolivia.

Earlier figures show there were 1,000 of the birds living in the wild in 1980.

'Quite a boost'

They are now only found in Llanos de Mojos in northern Bolivia.

David Woolcock, the curator of Paradise Park, where the trust is based, said: "I can't emphasise enough how rare these birds are.

"To send six birds out from here, joined by seven from America and seven from Canada. That's quite a boost to the wild population."

It is not the first time the trust has sent bred-birds back into the wild from Cornwall.

Alison Hales, from the park, said: "The very first species the trust helped was the echo parakeet in Mauritius.

"The parakeet was down to just seven individuals. It's taken a very long time, but the numbers have crept up, and now it has reached 500 individuals."
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I made my first visit today, great place, the price has put me off in the past, but after begrudgingly stumping up the entrance fee i was very impressed (and so was the Wife, the one who doesn't like birds.) The bird of prey show was fantastic, really enjoyable. Didn't stay around for the other free flying show but will do next time. And i think the back drop has now taken over from Welsh mountain zoo as the best in the UK in zoo's i have visited.

(Didn't get to go on the choo choo either.:( )
 
Johnny Morris. said:
And i think the back drop has now taken over from Welsh mountain zoo as the best in the UK in zoo's i have visited.
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There is a good view from Paradise Park especially when the sea is blue, but in my opinion those from the Welsh Mountain Zoo are unbeatable (especially when there are macaws swooping around the hillside in the bird displays).

I have not watched the full "Eagles of Paradise" display on my last few visits, but I always watch the Free Flying Bird Show as it features so many parrots. The Military Macaws at the end are excellent, but the picnic lawn at Hayle is not as spectacular a setting as the display area at Colwyn Bay. I do like the Grey-winged Trumpeter in the show, but I could have done without the otter last year (it was not a bird for one thing - and I don't like otters anyway!).

I am a sucker for the lorikeet feeding at Paradise Park and always invest in 10 pots of nectar. Oh, and I like "Carrot Time" too, plus overall the collection is excellent (as is the sticky toffee pudding and clotted cream).

Didn't mean to waffle on so much - I was only going to mention the view!
 
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