Jurong Bird Park Hornbills,pheasants, Birds of Paradise and those odd looking parrots

[Zooish]

Thank goodness our Singapore oracle is back on board!
Welcome back MATE!

I have visited Jurong Bird Park on my way back from Cebu, Philippines. I was having an iffy day out there, but was more than overwhelmed by the birds of paradise and hornbill sections.

I also thought the exhibit with saddle billed stork and various wetland birds as you enter was quite nice .... The saddle billed storks were nest-building at the time and the male was sort of standing his ground to every visitor. So touching to see these birds pair bond so conspicuously and the male putting new twigs to the female. It was almost natural poetry ....

K.B.

Good to be back

When I visited a week back the male saddle-bill stork was sitting on the nest already. The female stayed close and shoo-ed all the other birds away from the nesting island. Hopefully we'll hear some good news soon. I'll post some pics of the nest.

 

[Zooish]

Good to have you back.

The african waterfall aviary looks amazing and to have 7 turacos in one exhibit would be cool to see.

Would be even cooler if one could capture all seven in one photo! But that would be almost impossible.

 

[siamang27]

Thanks everyone for the lists. I got another list for the waterfall and jungle jewels aviaries emailed to me, and those lists were different from the ones posted here, so I guess there's no official list. Waterfall Aviary sounds even more awesome now!