One of the reasons I wanted to get back to Singapore was that I had never visited Jurong Bird Park. It is a huge and beautiful park with thousand of birds, the great majority of which are free and in the open. There are beautiful king penguins inside a chilled glass and rock enclosure. There are some species in large cages. One group of S.E. Asian birds is in about a two block square enclosure of genuine heavy jungle around a man made 100' waterfall. It has nets over it, but from 25' to 105' over the trees and is kind of hard to even notice most of the time (if you are not a bird of course). There are many feeding shows. The one in the netted enclosure allows visitors to hand feed birds - which is thrilling.
The
Shoebill shown at the top here, but it was more than 4' tall and quite friendly. I hope you are able to enlarge the nine birds hopping up the stone stairs - they are wonderfully spotted and charming
This visit to the bird park was one of the highlights of my trip and I am so glad I was there. Among other things, I really wanted to see some nesting storks up close and had contemplated a trip to Poland just for that purpose. But I saw lots of them up close and nesting and they were wonderful.
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