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New Bird House
01-12-2007

ZSL has published a small article about the new exhibit in the Blackburn Pavillion.

Hummingbird Walkthrough

Also, there are some updates on the new developments at Whipsnade

Updates

01-12-2007

I presume the Blackburn Pavilion is the new name for the old Bird House.

Alan

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01-12-2007

It must be.

I'd imagine it is named after the man who helped out the Zoo during their crisis at the start of the 90's. The first name escapes me, but i'm sure his surname was Blackburn.

01-12-2007

The renovation has been paid for by a bequest especially for this project. Could it be the same person, who has now died and left the money to the zoo?

08-12-2007

They are coming up with some innovative ideas at London. A walkthrough tropical bird aviary with the UK's only hummingbirds is a neat idea for this space.

08-12-2007

Anyone who knows which hummingbirds they will keep? and from were they gets them?

08-12-2007

I remember London zoo had this in the late 1960s so its not a new idea for them but worth having

08-12-2007

Yes, i read about this, but it didn't quite work out if i remember correctly, so they decided to pull the plug on the idea very quickly.

08-12-2007

I dont know how long it went for but it was a real thrill being so close to them buzzing away just a foot or two from us.

08-12-2007

I used to really like going in the old Bird House at ZSL. It was a really interesting place- one of ZSL's better collections I feel.

08-12-2007

They've made a start. There is a female Amazilia amazilia at London.

09-12-2007

Looks like this:

http://www.birdforum.net/gallery/dat...4537pica_1.jpg

09-12-2007

The old Hummingbird/tropical bird House was between the Bird House and the Wolf enclosure, where the squirrel monkeys are now. It was a fairly small brick building with a glass roof. There was a central path and a shallow moat on each side, separating the public from some fairly thick vegetation. It had a range of small tropical softbills, although I can't remember hummingbirds there in the early '70s when I visited Regent's Park quite regularly. The birds I do remember are blue-backed manakins which bred there.
At that time, several UK zoos and bird gardens had free-flying hummers. Chester had some in the small mammal house. The old Birdland at Bourton in the Water had several walk-through tropical houses with hummingbirds (and one with red birds of paradise if my memory is correct).

Alan

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01-01-2008

More information has been published today

London Zoo restores bird house - Group Travel Organiser - Group Travel News, Articles, and Events

01-01-2008

Sounds great