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'Bird Paradise' Aviary

This is the large aviary in Mondo Verde, called Bird Paradise. The park says that this is the largest aviary in Europe, which it is not with his 6000m2 (64583.46ft²). It is a very beautiful aviary with lots of greenery, rock walls, nice sitting areas and many small ponds.

'Bird Paradise' Aviary
    • Mr Gharial
      What species are held here?
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    • Tiger
      Here is a partial species list from the aviary, as I could not find all the species that live in the aviary:
      - Ayam Cemani-chicken (Gallus gallus domestica)
      - Indian peafowl (Pavo cristatus)
      - Common wood pigeon (Columba palumbus)
      - (Blue) rock pigeon (Columba livia)
      - Dunnock (Prunella modularis)
      - Crested myna (Acridotheres cristatellus)
      - Helmeted guineafowl (Numida meleagris)
      - Black swan (Cygnus atratus)
      - African sacred ibis (Threskiornis aethiopicus)
      - Western cattle egret (Bubulcus ibis ibis)
      - Common shelduck (Tadorna tadorna)
      - Common mallard (Anas platyrhynchos platyrhynchos)
      - Mandarin duck (Aix galericulata)
      - Falcated duck (Mareca falcata)
      - Ferruginous duck (Aythya nyroca)
      - Pied avocet (Recurvirostra avosetta)
      - European white stork (Ciconia ciconia ciconia) (though I don't know if they really live in the aviary itself)
      In the past, golden pheasants also lived in the aviary.
      On their zoo map, it also looks like there are scarlet ibises living in the aviary, but I'm not sure if there really live scarlet ibises living in the aviary.
    • KevinB
      When I visited in 2018 this aviary also housed black storks, crowned cranes and Barrow's goldeneye. I don't know if those are still kept.

      In 2018 the white storks were housed in the Australian paddock just outside this aviary.
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    • Tiger
      @KevinB During my visit on October 4 of this year I did not see any black storks in the aviary, but I did see them in 1 of the aviary's at the entrance, opposite the building with among others Sri Lankan leopards, capuchin monkeys and Southern ground hornbills. The Eastern grey-crowned cranes were housed in 1 of the 3 crane enclosures next to the aviary's at the entrance with among others black storks, so these 2 species no longer live in the aviary.
      On my visit, I mostly saw storks breeding ON the aviary, but the site of the park (still) says that they live in the aviary itself.
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