My trip to the Jurong Bird Park on 3rd June. The weather was rainy and cloudy, the downpour stopped just as I reached the place and became sunny for the later part of the trip. Perfect like my visit to the zoo (see earlier post), because I don't like the scorching sun when on excursions. Prayer works wonders for unpredictable weather!
I haven't visited the Bird park since about 17 years ago when I was small, and my memories of the place were: an A&W restaurant (now non-existent in Singapore), penguins, macaws (of course) and FLAMINGOS! Actually the only birds I was looking forward to were the flamingos and more flamingos! So here we go:
Here they are! A delightful flock of deep salmon-coloured flamingos! They're so much more vibrant in person and a whole bunch of them as well; their feathers are such a bright salmon-pink that my camera under-compensated their saturation!
Entrance, there's a nice little duck pond on the side too.
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Here they are! A delightful flock of deep salmon-coloured flamingos! They're so much more vibrant in person and a whole bunch of them as well; their feathers are such a bright salmon-pink that my camera under-compensated their saturation!
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MORE flamingos... these were a pale pink with super fuchsia legs and beaks! =) I'm contented at this point though this was just the beginning of the trip lol.
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Scarlet Ibises. They were extremely red that it's almost impossible to photograph their actual luminance! They were scuttling about for fish (stinky enclosure too) and it was a patch of dizzying neon red all about.
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Pelicans. There was this funny one which took something much bigger than it could swallow. It caught a large black fish in its pouch and was trying to swallow it for ages. I wondered if it eventually let the fish go or if it choked to death.
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Cormorants. They are drying their feathers in the sun because the feathers get waterlogged when diving for fishes. These are the birds that fishermen in Asia use for fishing, by having a snare tied around its neck to prevent it from swallowing larger fishes when it gets a catch!
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Grey Crowned Crane. There were 2 crowned cranes which suddenly came out of the foliage and strolled across our path in the free-flying aviary! So very elegant birds.
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The ever popular penguins. There were several other penguin species in the enclosure and it was nicely air-conditioned too.
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Display in the Bird Discovery Center. They have specimens, skeletons, eggs and other useful info on birds.
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This cockatoo had its own quiet enclosure in the Discovery Center; it and its mate were the only living displays in there lol.
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Lories/ Lorikeets, they were flying all over the place as it was a free-flying large aviary. They are sociable, super noisy and you can feed them with some nectar water near the entrance.
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This bird has spectacular colours... its feathers are iridescent and shimmering with metallic rainbow colours as it moves about! The photo doesn't capture its true beauty. In the waterfall aviary.
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This bird is a patient darling and posed beautifully for our photos and video! It was just in front of our faces and seemed to know we wanted him/her to keep still for long enough. Maybe it's proud of how pretty its feathers are! Our favourite bird out of the whole trip.
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12 comments:
What a great place to visit! I love those Scarlet Ibis, they're so vibrant!
what great pictures! I love the pictures of the storks!! They are all great
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What a fabulous photo of the flamingoes!
that's a lot of birds! looks like a fun place to visit!
These photos are gorgeous! The Black Crowned Crane is indeed a good lookin' dude. And the lories are so vibrant!
birds are unique & wondrous creatures, each with their own personality!
looks lovely!
What a great place to visit (I'm a bit envious that there isn't something similar near me) -- the birds are gorgeous
That looks like a great place. I wish there was something like that near me. I had heard that flamingos were pink because of all the shrimp they eat. Don't know if it's true or not.
Ooooh that flock of flamingos, they are just so stunning! I bet it was wonderful to see such beautiful birds up close!
beautiful pics!!!!
Beautiful birds and photos. I love birds!
Hi Lemon Shortbread,
Great pictures of the birds. How I missed the lorries.
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