As per my visit on the 30.09.17 Botanic Gardens aviaries: Lower Level (from right to left): South Island Kaka (?) Golden Pheasant King Parrot Chattering Lorikeet Bronze Crested Dove Musk Lorikeet Crimson-winged Parrot Red-rumped Parrot Kea Middle Level (from right to left): Right: Plum-headed Parakeet King Parrot Bourkes Parrot +pigeon Crimson-winged Parrot Indian Ring-necked Parrot Crimson-winged Parrot Musk Lorikeet Left: Elegant Parakeet Fire Finch White-fronted Gouldian Finch Fire Finch Cordon Finch +parrot Mulga Parrot Cuban Finch Turquoise Parakeet* Fiji Parrot Finch* Plum-headed Parakeet Cuban Finch Musk Lorikeet Elegant Parakeet Black-headed Gouldian (?) Gouldian Finch Diamond Dove Jacarini Finch Siskin Finch Namanqua Dove Red-faced Parrot Finch Upper level (from left to right): Left: South Island Kaka Red-crowned Parakeet Kea* Yellow-crowned Parakeet Right: Sulphur-crested Cockatoo* Blue and Yellow Macaw Sulphur-crested Cockatoo Long-billed Corella Opaline Red-rumped Parrot Blue Red-rumped Parrot Scarlet Macaw Blue and Gold Macaw Ecclectus Parrot Signed: Derbyan Parrot* (But had Scarlet Macaw) Yellow-tailed Black Cockatoo Red-tailed Black Cockatoo Blue and Yellow Macaw Red-tailed Black Cockatoo Scarlet Macaw ---------------------------------------------------------- *= (not seen) (?)= didn't check if inhabitants match labels
What is this? Crested Pigeon (Ocyphaps lophotes)? Or Bronzewing (Phaps chalcoptera)? Nice. I actually didn't know if these were still in New Zealand or not!
When did the Aviaries in the Botanic garden open? I was a fairly frequent visitor in there during my stay in the early 1990's- don't remember any birds then.
There have been aviaries at the site since the 1860s (originally for the Acclimatisation Society). The current aviaries were built from the 1940s, although they were in a different place in the gardens. They were moved to their current location in 1985.
