Hopefully it will be an excellent day out!
In the holidays there are usually three shows. The times will be on the board just after the entrance (and the boards around the zoo) and at the bird arena. Usually 1115hrs, 1330hrs and 1530hrs.
The finale birds will tend to be the same (as long as the birds want to come out) in singles or a number of birds
- Red Billed blue magpie (flying from an enclosure near butterfly house you can also see the birds in there before and after the show)
- Hyacinth Macaw
- Military Macaw
- Scarlet Macaw
- Red Crested Turaco
- Grey parrot
- Visyan Tarictic Hornbills (can also appear separately)
The morning show/s will normally feature the high flying Lanner Falcon Lenny who will come out before the show and be sent to fly high up (with tracker) before stooping down from a couple of hundred metres to the lure. His brother will usually fly in the afternoon, demonstrating flying at lower level stooping more than once to a lure line.
The Pied Crow Dolly and the Batteleur Eagle Bruno are more often seen in the early shows, in my experience. The Great Grey Owls Gandalf and Bilbo can be in either as can the pair of Red Billed Hornbills. The Kookaburras tend to be in the earlier ones. The Buzzard Eagle is usually in the morning. Later shows will usually have two Harris's hawks flying together and Ettie the Burrowing Owl, but the birds can move around shows and like the end show it depends if they want to fly. I think that's all of them but someone will add more I am sure.
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