I've just uploaded photos from my June visit to this rather pleasant little place: Le Park de Cleres | ZooChat It's basically a bird collection and historic park, founded by naturalist Jean Delacour, but with a small collection of mammals - two species each of gibbons and lemurs, tamarins, red pandas, muntjac and free-roaming wallabies, Blackbuck and Chinese Water Deer. There are some very nice species among the birds, with aviary species including Blue-headed Wood Dove, Spotted Tanager, Blue-crowned Motmot, and European Bee-eater. Most of the larger birds are free-roaming in the park. Well worth a look if you're in the area, doubles-up nicely with Biotropica, and was a nice gentle finish as our last zoo before the ferry home!
Just to add that Jean Delacour's biography "The Living Air: The Memoirs of an Ornithologist" (1966) is well worth reading.
