Monday, January 15, 2007
Jurong Bird Park
Yesterday, Mom, Dad, and I went to the Jurong Bird Park. In the African Wetlands exhibit, we saw Mom's favorite type of bird: the black crowned crane (top left). We also saw my favorite bird, the shoebill stork (bottom left). There was a show called the Birds and Buddies show. It had several kinds of birds (flamingos, pelicans, toucans, a hornbill, a vulture, ...) that paraded on stage or flew among the audience or did other things. For example, a macaw and a cockatoo played basketball. The show also had people in bird costumes.
After the show, we went on a monorail that goes around the bird park. Then it was time for another show. This one was called Kings of the Skies. They had birds of prey that caught meat in the air. I think this show was better than the other one.
Then we started looking at birds. We first went to the Waterfall Aviary. It was a little disappointing; the only interesting bird there was a helmet crested guineafowl. Then we went to a place called the Lory Loft. It had TONS of lories. My favorite kind was called a rainbow lory. It is very colorful.
After that, mom went to see the South-East Asian birds and Dad and I went to the World of Darkness, which had some interesting owls like Great Greys and Snowies. I loved the Great Greys. I saw one of them fly. It had a huge wingspan!
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4 comments:
Neat birds!
Andrea
I am extremely jealous.
Ah well, these pictures are good, did you take them?
Sarah
I changed the one of the black crowned cranes to a photo we took; the shoebill photo I got from Google.
I chuckled when I read that the "birds flew among the audience or did other things," remembering an "other thing" a bird did on my head while I was standing outside talking to my neighbor this summer. Watching them play basketball would be a lot less messy.
Was the shoebill stork your favorite bird before you went to the Bird Park too or your favorite of the many that were there?
Thanks for keeping us posted on your adventures. Since we can't join you on them, we love to be able to read about and see them.
Love,
Aunt Amy
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