It's worth looking at the full-sized versions of these pictures to see the
birds' feathers, etc.
Click on images below to enlarge:
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| Jurong Bird Park
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| The entrance to Jurong
Bird Park.
| Ducks by the entrance pond.
| An African-crowned crane. It steps very gingerly.
| A saddle-billed stork.
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| A snow owl.
| A malay owl / buffy fish owl. Perched as it is, it looks like a statue.
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I got to see one of the owls fly from ten feet away. Pretty amazing
wings.
| A movie of the intro to the Birds n Buddies show. Storks.
The
announcer greets the audience in many languages.
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| The trainer threw a treat in the air and the bird caught it mid-flight.
It flies fast--I wonder if that's what caused the funky exposure (multiple
bird outlines). Whatever caused the effect, it's really cool.
| A picture of a bird in flight--it's the blur on the right of the
picture.
| A movie of hornbills in flight.
| A movie of bird basketball.
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| Two hornbills flew through the hoop at the same time.
| Another time, it crashed through the paper in the hoop.
| A movie of pelicans arriving.
| Hungry pelicans being fed.
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| A movie of a talking, counting, singing parrot. Definitely needs sound.
It already counted to ten in English. In this video, he does it in
Chinese.
| Some cockatiels.
| Not only are the pair in the mid-top of the previous picture kissing,
they're also blushing.
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| Toco toucans.
| Peach-faced lovebirds look exactly like (are?) my old pet.
| Scarlet ibises. Apparently it can fly (or else can climb trees :P ).
| A scarlet ibis close-up.
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| A black cormorant posing.
| Victoria crowned pigeon.
| One of many species of hornbills. Don't mistake it for a toucan!
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| I didn't spot any birds of paradise. Too bad, as they remind me of my
"Magic
The Gathering" days. I saw only this "lesser bird of paradise", which
is not the same.
| Much of the park is large aviaries like this.
| A panoramic movie of the 9 story tall lory loft.
| A walkway in the large aviary. I took this in case the previous movie
didn't give you a sense of the space.
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| Lories.
| Lories being fed.
| In the birds of prey exhibit, a noble bald eagle.
| I never realized ostriches are so tall. Nor did I realize one could bend
its neck enough to use its mouth to clean its own neck.
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| An ostrich close-up. It's got at least a foot or two on me.
| A cassowary. "The cassowary is the only flightless bird that is adapted
to living in the rainforest. The casque on its head helps it push through
the forest vegetation without getting hurt."
| Another cassowary.
| Birds in the rainforest aviary.
Nominated as excellent.
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