Adelaide Zoo Hyacinth Macaws

[nanoboy]

Does anyone know if Adelaide still has their Hyacinth Macaws? I'm heading there in 3 weeks, and hoping against hope they do. I'm looking forward to seeing them almost as much as the Panda's.

Someone please tell me they still have some, and on display.

When I visited over Easter, they were still there. Here is a photo of the view of their enclosure on entering one of the male toilets. The macaws can also watch you pee from the wire mesh above the urinals.

There are a few Palm Cockatoos in another enclosure, and they are also a joy to see.

 

[FriendOfTheZoo]

Oh WOW! Thanks for sharing Nanoboy.

You can see them not from the male toilets as well I'm hoping?!?

 

[nanoboy]

Oh WOW! Thanks for sharing Nanoboy.

You can see them not from the male toilets as well I'm hoping?!?

Oh yeah, there is a huge viewing area off to the right. Stick your camera right up to the mesh, and you will get some good photos. There are a couple other parrot species in there, like blue-and-gold macaws and some conures.

I think that the female toilet has some good views of Australian cockatoos.

 

[CGSwans]

An Australian cockatoo in the female toilets is a matter for the police, surely.

 

[nanoboy]

An Australian cockatoo in the female toilets is a matter for the police, surely.

How so?

 

[Jabiru96]

How so?

Sarcasm. "Cockatoo" in female toilets.....

 

[nanoboy]

Sarcasm. "Cockatoo" in female toilets.....

Hmmm.... I haven't heard cockatoo jokes since I was in kinder, so it went over my head. It needed a smiley at the end of the sentence.

 

[CGSwans]

Hmmm.... I haven't heard cockatoo jokes since I was in kinder, so it went over my head. It needed a smiley at the end of the sentence.

Nothing is too puerile for the internet.

 

[Pertinax]

An Australian cockatoo in the female toilets is a matter for the police, surely.

There are English 'postcard' jokes in that vein- 'she just keeps budgies now but she used to have a cockatoo' etc.

 

[Hix]

Ooooh errr ...... any one else remember Dick Emery?



Hix

 

[FriendOfTheZoo]

I added some pics I took to the AZ album in case anyone's interested.