aviary visit

[cellio]

We had a short team outing (with out-of-town guests) to the national aviary today.

Here are some pictures from the rainforest room. I don't know what kinds of birds these are (didn't match them up with the display cards).

Those last two are small, somewhere between a robin and an ordinary city pigeon. (I qualify that because we also saw an enormous pigeon, specific type unknown. I didn't know they came in XL.) That last picture is fuzzy but it was the only shot I got of him.

We also saw some eagles.

And flamingos.

And this cute little owl.

And a brown pelican. Front view:

And back view:

They have a pair of condors. Here's one of them.

We also saw assorted colorful birds (finches and canaries and the like), some penguins, a butterfly garden, and some others I don't remember now. We were there for maybe an hour and a half. I would go back for a longer visit.

Comments

[goljerp]

YOLO! (You Obviousy Like Owls)

Cool birds. I didn't know there *was* a national aviary, much less one in your part of the country.

[cellio]

Yeah, I have no idea how you even get to be a national aviary. Is there a national aviary association that decides these things? If it were in DC (like the national zoo) I'd assume a stronger government hand.

[eub]

Wikipedia says that the then Pittsburgh Aviary "was designated honorary national status and renamed the National Aviary in Pittsburgh" in 1993.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Aviary

[sine_nomine]

National Aviary? No idea there was such a thing!

Many thanks for sharing your visit with us! Nifty pics.

[cellio]

I was vaguely aware that our aviary had that designation, but I don't know how that came to be.