Visit to Singapore Jurong Bird Park

Over the weekend, I visited Singapore's Jurong Bird Park (JBP), that contain a collection of nearly 10,000 birds, of which around 500 are parrots coming from 110 species. What a variety!

Although I was unable to capture perfectly all of the species, what with some enclosures under maintainence, wire mesh of aviaries blocking the view and many other birds hiding away from the mid day heat in their spacious and planted aviaries, I have however, managed to collect quite a representative array of photos to share with all!

Parrots can be found in 5 themed locations within the park. They are "Parrot Paradise", "Parrot Show", "birds photo taking", "Lory Loft" and "Talking Birds", of which Parrot Paradise contain the largest variety. The aviaries are beautifully landscaped according to respective birds' natural habitats. Some are given open space enclosures.

Majestic and Mighty Macaws

The Macaws Aviary at Parrot Paradise, JBP

Hyacinth Macaws (Macaws Aviary)

Buffon's Macaw in an open air enclosure at "Talking Birds"

Green Wing Macaw (Open Enclosure)

 Blue and Gold Macaw (Open Enclosure)

Scarlet Macaw in the JBP's All star Bird Show

Red Fronted Macaw  (Macaws Aviary)

Yellow Collared Macaw, (Macaws Aviary)

Red Bellied Macaw (Macaws Aviary)

Severe Macaw (Macaws Aviary)

Hahn's Mini Macaw (Macaws Aviary)

Cute and Crazy Cockatoos

Cockatoos Aviary at Parrot Paradise. Look at the beautiful landscaping with lots of logs on the ground with holes to satisfy cockatoos' chewing needs.

Moluccan Cockatoos checking out a tree hole. I observed them ums and the moluccans love playing out at this particular stump which has a hole right in the centre, literally speaking, a tree hole. (Cockatoos Aviary)

Moluccan Cockatoo (Talking Birds Enclosure)

Umbrella Cockatoo (Cockatoos Aviary)

 This female umbrella cockatoo is very curious and came to have a look at what I'm shooting.  (Cockatoos Aviary)

The uncommon Yellow Tail Black cockatoo. This guy's a joker...came right to the front when he saw me aiming at him. (Black Cockatoos Aviary)

Yellow Tail Black Cockatoo. See how cute his puppy eyes looked. (Black Cockatoos Aviary)

The enigmatic Red Tail Black Coctoo. This guy's flashing out in what I believed as warning off when he saw me. (Black Cockatoos Aviary)

Greater Sulphur Cockatoo playing a twig (Cockatoos Aviary)

 Greater Sulphur Cockatoo. Never know toos can be this lazy... (Talking Birds Display)

Triton Medium Sulphur Cockatoo at the JBP Bird Show, fetching a pen. (JBP Bird Show)

This beautiful Lesser Sulphur Cockatoo is in bird heaven only after a few seconds of cuddling. (Talking Birds Display)

Palm Cockatoo (Cockatoos Aviary)

Major Mitchell's Cockatoo (Australian Cockatoos Aviary)

Galah Cockatoo (Australian Cockatoos Aviary)

This lady galah is a darling. Came right over and lick my fingers...how sweet.  (Australian Cockatoos Aviary)

Corella Cockatoo (Cockatoos Aviary)

Sleepy Goffin Cockatoo...it was noon while I was there. (Cockatoos Aviary)

Amazing Amazons

Double Yellow Headed Amazons (Amazons Aviary)

Yellow Crown Amazon (Amazons Aviary) 

Red Lored Amazon (Amazon Aviary)

Orange Winged Amazon (Amazon Aviary)

Rather uncommon in aviculture as companion parrot, the great Mealy Amazon (Amazon Aviary)

Blue Fronted Amazon (Talking Birds Display)

...and how can I forget the popular Yellow Naped Amazon? Look how its checking me out. (Talking Birds Display)

There are altogether 3 Yellow Napes at the "Talking Birds" display. All three seem aggressive when initially approached by me but after giving them a firm look and asking them if they would like a scratch, all three eventually, albeit grudgingly, give me permission to scratch them. The Amazon character runs ture in these guys.  (Talking Birds display)

The Amazon collection in JBP doesn't seem to be as extensive as I have hoped. I failed to see Cuban, Imperial, etc more rare species. Some of the aviaries are under maintainence, so I do hope to eb able to see these zons under JBP's wildlife conservation captive breeding programme in the future.

African Greys

Talking Birds Display. The shaded alley is right behind the open air macaw enclosure.

Talking Birds display alley

Congo African Grey Parrot (Talking Birds display)

Electrically Coloured Eclectus

Pair of Electus Parrots (Eclectus Aviary)

Playing...(Eclectus Aviary)

Super Cute Conures!

The Golden Conures, Jenday Conures and Nanday Conures are supposed to be in this particular aviary. How does one expect to take a photo of them in all that?!? There are several conures aviaries. (Conures Aviary 1)

Spotted. Jenday Conures taking a lunch break. (Conure Aviary 1)

Majestic looking Pantagonian Conures lunching. (Pantogonian Conures Aviary)

Mitred Conures and Sun Conure. Note the masterpiece tropical rain forest wall painting that forms the backdrop. Its appear rather realistic when blended with real vegetation in the foreground and sides! (Conures Aviary 2)

Blue Crown Conures (Conures Aviary 3)

Painted Conures (Conures Aviary 2)

This fearless cutie pie left a deep impression on me. How adorable...muck! ( Sun Conures Aviary)

And then suddenly he became camera shy...(Sun Conures Aviary)

Nothing makes my day like the uplifting sight of a flock of strikingly beautiful Sun Conures!! These guys are the appointed super models of jurong Bird park, you know. You gotta to pay before you are allowed to take photos with these guys. (Photo Taking Gallery) 

 Clownish Caiques

Black Headed Caique. Note again the beautiful dense Amazon rainforest landscaping in the backdrop. The4se are real vegetation. (Caiques Aviary)

White Bellied Caique (Caiques Aviary)

They do live up to their reputation for being friendly! (Caiques Aviary)

Pionus Parrots

White Capped Pionus (Pionus Aviary)

Bronze Wing Pionus (Pionus Aviary)

Blue Head Pionus. This guy, interestingly, is housed with the Macaws...(Macaws Aviary)

African Parrots

 Poicephalus Meyers. The African Aviaries are down for maintainence and the birds have been taken off display. So I failed to see other Poicephalus, African greys, Vasa and lovebird species. (African Aviary)

Pretty Parakeets

Moustache Parakeet. This is found in another location, dedicated to the Southeast birds. (Southeast Asian Birds Aviaries)

Derbyan Parakeet. Actually its hard to identify between Derbyan and Moustache Parakeets with such a photo. I believe the distinction between both comes from the colours of the chest, at least for me. The Derbyan's chest is a continuation of the blue of the head while Moustache Parakeet's chest is a rosy colour.  (Parakeet Aviary)

Plum Headed Parakeets (Southeast Asian Birds Aviaries)

Indian Ringnecks Parakeets (Indian Ringneck Aviary)

The great Alexandrine Parakeet (Parakeets Aviary)

Regent Parakeet. Not much Australian Parakeets on display though....(Australian Parrots Aviary)

Golden Mantled Rosella (Australian Parrots Aviary)

Monk Parakeet or more well known as Quaker (Quaker Aviary)

Quaker parrakeet. (Quaker Aviary)

 Lovely Lories and Lorikeets

Entrance to Lory Loft. The biggest aviary, or so boasted Jurong Bird Park. Nevertheless, i have reasons to believe its a wonderful and truly BIG walk in aviary. Fun for both birds and us!

And when you walk right in through the entrance, you realize you at raised platforms and towers and the entire aviary looks right out of an Australian bush valley! (Lory Loft)

The very centre and support of the aviary tent.  (Lory Loft)

...complete with swinging bridges for the adventurous. Now where are the brids? (Lory Loft)

Here they are. Under the shade of the multi-storeyed platform, avoiding the mid noon sun. (Lory Loft)

This Red Lory is hawking us to buy it a free lunch it seems. (Lory Loft)

This Yellow Back Chattering Lory on the other hand is waiting at the nectar preparing/washing sink.  (Lory Loft)

Black Capped Lories playing above the nectar feeding sale counter...ain't they playful! (Lory Loft)

Let the feasting begin! (Lory Loft)

Swainson's Rainbow Lorikeet playing in the branches. (Lory Loft)

Green Nape Rainbow Lorikeet (Lory Loft)

Dusky Lory at the feeding platform. (Lory Loft)

A pair of Musk Lorikeets feeding on nectar mix offered by a girl. (Lory Loft)

Chattering Lory (Lory Loft)

(Parrots Paradise Lory Aviary)

Thats all for now, folks!

Thank you for viewing!