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Buffalo aviary - duck pond and visitor path

This aviary is now two years old, and the plants are really growing well, with the vines even growing against the chainlink, creating a very green natural barrier between this aviary and the rest of the zoo. This place gets more beautiful every day!

Buffalo aviary - duck pond and visitor path
Vision, 3 May 2018
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      This aviary is now two years old, and the plants are really growing well, with the vines even growing against the chainlink, creating a very green natural barrier between this aviary and the rest of the zoo. This place gets more beautiful every day!

      Since my previous visit in March a lot of plants have been added, and a lot of extra perches as well. Because of this the aviary as a whole seems a lot denser, and the birds are a lot less shy than they once were, with the hammerkops, whistling ducks, rollers and hornbills often coming very close.

      Here's a list of all species in this aviary:

      African buffalo

      Golden-breasted starling
      Superb starling
      Lilac-breasted roller
      Violet turaco
      White-crested turaco
      Cape turtle dove
      Laughing dove
      Speckled pigeon
      African grey hornbill
      Trumpeter hornbill

      Hadada ibis
      Glossy ibis
      African spoonbill
      Abdim's stork
      Western cattle egret
      Hammerkop
      Blacksmith plover

      Fulvous whistling duck
      White-faced whistling duck
      Madagascar teal
      Helmeted guineafowl
      Crested guineafowl
      Yellow-necked francolin

      Rüppell's vulture

      (African olive-pigeon and Hooded vulture have been held in here previously, but didn't work out so well so were taken out again.)

      It is definitely very enjoyable to see rollers in an aviary large enough to do the soaring flight they do, and to see the 6 fowl species, egrets, spoonbills and plovers interacting with the buffaloes... I hope they continue managing the different species combinations as attentively as they have now, because while very well-stocked it doesn't feel crowded at all. Perhaps some oxpeckers would be a nice addition, if the holes in the mesh are small enough? :D
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