Ibises and Spoonbills boardwalk:
This exhibit will largely focus on Conservation, and Follows a path of netted aviaries, educational side buildings, and Boardwalks with plenty of signage.
The first exhibit holds the Highly endangered White-shouldered ibis, (P. Davisoni), And starts with an indoor viewing area in a small cabin-like structure talking about the ecology, habitat, and most importantly, the threats and conservation efforts for this highly endangered species of its region. The cabin has glass viewing that looks out onto the habitat, but ignoring this side building will take you a simple viewing deck looking onto a nicely planted habitat with water features, vegetation, and natural land space. Continuing with the Critically endangered Ibis species, next habitat has the Fascinating Giant ibis, (T. Gigantea), There habitat is netted as well but slightly larger, and has a land and water space seemingly combining themselves into a marshy habitat, along with deciduous tree-like structures giving life to the habitat at the back. More conservation posters are plastered on plenty of signage, supplying more info on this charismatic and unique species. Moving to Africa, there is another small aviary, looking like a swamp at the edge of a river, home to Spot-breasted ibises, (B. Rara). A mixed species typical habitat home to endangered Black-faced spoonbills, (P. Minor) and Crested ibises, (N. Nippon) is next, and is designed to look like a wooded pond. The second-to-last species in this exhibit is the critically endangered São Tomé ibis, (B. Bocagei), In a very quiet forest-floor habitat with actual rain features coming from the top of the net. The Final species is one of the largest and is Walk-through unlike the other habitats. You walk through a shed explaining the Biology of Threskinorthidae as a whole, and allows you too press mechanical buttons that play all the calls of every single species in this family. This final habitat is home to Yellow-billed spoonbills, (P. Flavipes) and has lily pads, islands surrounded by water, and a main vegetated viewing deck for the visitor to take a look at the whole habitat before exiting the Complex.
This exhibit will largely focus on Conservation, and Follows a path of netted aviaries, educational side buildings, and Boardwalks with plenty of signage.
The first exhibit holds the Highly endangered White-shouldered ibis, (P. Davisoni), And starts with an indoor viewing area in a small cabin-like structure talking about the ecology, habitat, and most importantly, the threats and conservation efforts for this highly endangered species of its region. The cabin has glass viewing that looks out onto the habitat, but ignoring this side building will take you a simple viewing deck looking onto a nicely planted habitat with water features, vegetation, and natural land space. Continuing with the Critically endangered Ibis species, next habitat has the Fascinating Giant ibis, (T. Gigantea), There habitat is netted as well but slightly larger, and has a land and water space seemingly combining themselves into a marshy habitat, along with deciduous tree-like structures giving life to the habitat at the back. More conservation posters are plastered on plenty of signage, supplying more info on this charismatic and unique species. Moving to Africa, there is another small aviary, looking like a swamp at the edge of a river, home to Spot-breasted ibises, (B. Rara). A mixed species typical habitat home to endangered Black-faced spoonbills, (P. Minor) and Crested ibises, (N. Nippon) is next, and is designed to look like a wooded pond. The second-to-last species in this exhibit is the critically endangered São Tomé ibis, (B. Bocagei), In a very quiet forest-floor habitat with actual rain features coming from the top of the net. The Final species is one of the largest and is Walk-through unlike the other habitats. You walk through a shed explaining the Biology of Threskinorthidae as a whole, and allows you too press mechanical buttons that play all the calls of every single species in this family. This final habitat is home to Yellow-billed spoonbills, (P. Flavipes) and has lily pads, islands surrounded by water, and a main vegetated viewing deck for the visitor to take a look at the whole habitat before exiting the Complex.