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Monica ([personal profile] cellio) wrote2018-08-16 10:25 pm
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aviary visit

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.

[personal profile] eub 2018-08-21 07:30 am (UTC)(link)
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