Chapter 270: The Kingdom of Birds
There are a lot of birds in Jurong Bird Park, Zhou Sen followed Xiao Zhao and saw a lot of birds, including parrots, flamingos, penguins, and peacocks, hornbills, birds of paradise, owls, etc.
In the middle of the exhibit is a large open aviary where the birds fly freely, allowing visitors to take a closer look at the birds' incomparable beauty, listen to their beautiful songs, and observe their way of life in nature.
Xiao Zhao said: "These birds are still very rare, some are rare, and there are many varieties, in other parks, you may only see a few kinds, come to this park is simply the kingdom of birds." ”
"Birds are also good friends of our human beings, we human beings want to develop for a long time, we must learn to live in harmony with birds, see some people in the news hurt birds, should be criticized and condemned, come to this park to watch birds up close, you will find that they are very beautiful, their species are different, living habits are also different, the park staff will take care of them, provide them with natural conditions for living and living. ”
"The staff here are very experienced, there are some bird experts, and some professional suggestions are also put forward, and there are many aviaries built in the park, let me take you to see it!"
"Okay!" Zhou Sen followed Xiao Zhao to see.
Nestled at the base of the pyramid-shaped building, the individual aviaries are connected to the rest by wrapping paths that are home to particularly rare, endangered or regional birds.
Singapore's Jurong Bird Park has many aviaries and places for birds to come out and move, Xiao Zhao told Zhou Sen that birds should not be kept for too long, in addition to feeding, they also need to be active, so that the birds can relax and take a walk, and the birds also like to chase and play with each other.
This is good for the health of the birds, the more active the bird, the more lively it is, the more it can eat, sleep, and the mood is cheerful, and it is good to live here.
The park has a wide range of birds from Southeast Asia and the world, including flamingos from Spain, robins from Beijing, cassowaries from Guinea, three-toed ostriches from Brazil, tropical birds with brilliant feathers, and Antarctic penguins from the ice and snow.
The Southeast Asian Bird House displays all rare and endangered birds in Southeast Asia, and the bird show is also a very attractive program, and the giant eagles and owls will fly over as soon as the bird tamers call, which is very interesting.
Owls have tubular eyes that have binocular stereo vision and can spot prey from a distance, and they also have an unusually keen sense of hearing, with large, bulging eyes, which like to be active at night, sometimes catching mice in the field.
In the exhibition, visitors will be able to clearly see the birds in a simulated night, and these gorgeous nocturnal creatures will continue their normal activities without being aware of the presence of humans.
The staff in the park will build an aviary suitable for the birds' living habits according to their different living habits.
"Birds have their own unique habits, and they will not change their characteristics and habits because of human aesthetic or behavioral habits, some birds need to hunt, and some are wild, and the staff will take care to retain their predatory instincts, and not too many people will interfere with the habits of these birds. ”
"Oh!" Zhou Sen nodded, there are many varieties of these birds, which are dizzying.
Visitors can observe birds quietly for a long time, jumping on the ground, or perching on the branches, and can easily observe their dazzling colors and peculiar living habits.
Jurong Bird Park has the largest parrot collection of any bird park or zoo in Asia, and there are so many varieties of parrots here, except for the green feathers that Zhou Sen saw in the flowers when he came in, the parrot with yellow and red feathers on the top of his head, and many other varieties of parrots, which are so cute.
Parrot Valley is the fourth open flying aviary in the Bird Park and the world's largest aviary for the cockarot, home to Australia, Indonesia and Papua New Guinea.
Zhou Sen didn't expect to see this kind of parrot in Singapore, the color of the parrot's feathers is different, so to distinguish it, Xiao Zhao pointed it out to Zhou Sen, Zhou Sen was also interested, and looked at those cute little guys.
Try to design an environment that is close to the parrot's natural habitat, which includes rainforests, grasslands, semi-deserts, river banks, or rocky cliffs.
Swans such as black-necked swans, black swans and mute swans, in Zhou Sen's impression, swans are a very lonely birds, they are a little unsociable, will not gather too much, just a male swan and a female swan with a mate, accompanied by swimming on the surface of the lake, looking very leisurely, and very beautiful.
Their beautiful feathers, on the surface of the water, will blow in the breeze, will slowly shake, very beautiful.
"It's so beautiful, the swans are really beautiful, there are many types of swans, you can see white swans, black swans, and curved necks!"
Xiao Zhao also smiled, "I often bring my son here to watch the swans, the swans are very popular with tourists, but they can't be too close, the swans don't like too many people to disturb them, so they can only stay away!"
"The Bird Park has had considerable success in breeding rare bird species, successfully incubating black hornbills, southern spotted hornbills and two-hornbilled hornbills in captivity for the first time. ”
For hornbills, Zhou Sen is not very familiar, he is very curious, he rarely sees such birds in domestic parks, he thinks it is very fresh, so he asked Xiao Zhao for advice.
"When it comes to hornbills, I would like to highlight that Jurong Bird Park is dedicated to Singapore's Oriental Spotted Hornbill Conservation Project, a project to study the breeding and nesting behaviour of Oriental Spotted Hornbills, which once again brought Singapore's Jurong Bird Park to the international stage and won an award," said Xiao Zhao. ”
The Bird Knowledge Center can not only learn interesting knowledge, but also interact with tourists, tourists and birds have some small games, which is very popular with tourists, which can not only promote the protection of birds, but also increase people's love for birds.
After seeing so many birds, Zhou Sen wanted to interview some of the park staff who managed the aviary, Xiao Zhao took Zhou Sen there, and happened to meet a beautiful female staff member, who was wearing a mask and cleaning the aviary.
After Zhou Sen introduced herself, the female staff member agreed to be interviewed, and she told Zhou Sen that she had been working here for three years and was with the birds every day, and although the birds were beautiful, their excrement still needed to be cleaned up. "It's not easy to clean up the droppings, sometimes it really stinks, so I put up with it and clean it up carefully, thinking about providing a comfortable environment for the birds to live happily here, so I work hard. ”
Zhou Sen saw that she was cleaning the aviary very seriously, and was also very moved, and gave her a cute backpack pendant, as an encouragement, she also happily accepted it, completed the day's shooting, and it was almost dark, Zhou Sen and Xiao Zhao took the car to the hotel.