Bird Park-I wish this was my backyard!

Trip Start Jul 06, 2007
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Trip End Aug 06, 2007


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Monday, July 23, 2007

We made a quick trip to the bus station to book the tickets for the trip to Campo Grande, pretty cheap at 93 Reais each.  Then we went to the best bird park I have ever seen anywhere-Parque des Aves in Foz.  it was pretty crowded with tour groups, but much to my amazement, they just rushed through spending maybe 5 or 10 minutes in each walk in aviary and moved on.  Ina and I sat there for hours observing the birds and letting them get comfortable with us.  Several of the water birds like the Scarlet Ibis even came up and nibbled on my ear and tried to get into my hand bag.  The Toucans came close but wouldn´t step up on us.  There was a rare and endangered species section with a pair of Golden Conures who were a bit shy but eventually came down to us but the highlight was the Hawkhead Parrot who kept coming to us to give kisses through the wire.  I could have easily taken him home if Aussie Customs would allow!

The highlight is the walk in Macaw Aviary 01 Entrance
01 Entrance
 .  This was really funny as we watched several tour groups come in, the Macaws would swoop from one side to another and the tourists would scream and go back out!  I swear that Macaws have a sense of humour and I know they were doing it on purpose!  There was a very friendly Hyacinth Macaw who happily stepped up to me and Ina, then he stole the rubber eye piece from Ina´s binoculars and flew off.  We got it back, a bit chewed up.  Some of the Amazons and a Mitred Conure were very friendly too and a B&G Macaw sat on Ina´s head and chewed the button off his baseball cap!  Then he came to me and chewed a button off my top-cheeky bugger!

There was a wide variety of Brazilan species and we got to see Ixchel´s, Yaxche´s and Chaska´s relatives.  The lone Quaker was bonded to a Hyacinth Macaw, that really blew me away.  I have pics to prove it, they are so cute cuddling together.  Most Brazilian Macaws were there-Scarlets, GWs, B&Gs, Red-Fronts and of course the Hys.  There were also Nandays, Jandays, the Quaker, several types of Amazons and Mitred Conures. 

We had lunch there and went back to the Macaw aviary until it closed.  I bought out the gift shop since I want to support the park and have bird souvenirs, but they wouldn´t let me take home the Hy!

In the evening, we went to the Rafain Show.  The buffet & BBQ dinner was great and the show was really good too but we had crappy seats in the back.  The first part was a variety of South American dances and then they finished off with Brazilian dances and Samba of course.  It was a fun evening!

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02 Map of bird park 02 Map of bird park 03 Welcoming committee 03 Welcoming committee 04 Flamingoes 04 Flamingoes 05 Wild Toucan visits park 05 Wild Toucan visits park
06 Gimme a kiss! 06 Gimme a kiss! 07 Amazon in aviary 07 Amazon in aviary 08 African Greys in aviary 08 African Greys in aviary 09 Patagonian Conure in aviary 09 Patagonian Conure in aviary
10 Preening Greenwing Macaws 10 Preening Greenwing Macaws 11 Yaxche and Ixchel have cousins in Foz 11 Yaxche and Ixchel have cousins in Foz 12 Pionus 12 Pionus 13 Lunchtime 13 Lunchtime
14 Toucan 14 Toucan 15 Toucan 2 15 Toucan 2 16 Pretty Illiger's Macaw 16 Pretty Illiger's Macaw 17 Beware of thieving birds 17 Beware of thieving birds
18 A lovely pair of Blue Headed Pionus 18 A lovely pair of Blue Headed Pionus 19 Ina makes a friend 19 Ina makes a friend 20 Ina entertains the birds 20 Ina entertains the birds 21 Chatting to a Toucan 21 Chatting to a Toucan
22 Friendly Ibis 22 Friendly Ibis 23 Red Ibis 23 Red Ibis 24 Toucan in flight 24 Toucan in flight 25 Toucan opening his beak 25 Toucan opening his beak
26 Water birds of the Pantanal 26 Water birds of the Pantanal 27 Splish splash Ibis taking a bath 27 Splish splash Ibis taking a bath 28 Pink Ibis in flight 28 Pink Ibis in flight 29 Pretty in blue 29 Pretty in blue
30 Crane strikes a pose 30 Crane strikes a pose 31 Hawkhead in rare bird aviary 31 Hawkhead in rare bird aviary 32 Hawkhead wants to be friends 32 Hawkhead wants to be friends 33 Kissing a Hawkhead 33 Kissing a Hawkhead
34 Golden Conures in rare bird aviary 34 Golden Conures in rare bird aviary 35 Golden Conures 35 Golden Conures 36 Toucan 36 Toucan 37 Hummingbird 37 Hummingbird
38 Hummingbird at feeder 38 Hummingbird at feeder 39 Who are those masked birds? 39 Who are those masked birds? 40 Friendly Hyacinth Macaw 40 Friendly Hyacinth Macaw 41 Macaw steals the button from Ina's hat 41 Macaw steals the button from Ina's hat
42 Hyacinth video 42 Hyacinth video 43 Hyacinth in flight 43 Hyacinth in flight 44 Ina is wary at first 44 Ina is wary at first 45 Hyacinth In flight 45 Hyacinth In flight
46 Ina meets a BG macaw 46 Ina meets a BG macaw 47 Lunchtime 47 Lunchtime 48 My turn! 48 My turn! 49 Catalina and 2 BG macaws 49 Catalina and 2 BG macaws
50 Kissy kissy! 50 Kissy kissy! 51 Macaw Heaven video 1 51 Macaw Heaven video 1 52 Macaw Heaven Video 2 52 Macaw Heaven Video 2 53 Amazon flies in 53 Amazon flies in
54 Brief encounter with an Amazon 54 Brief encounter with an Amazon 55 Ina and friends 55 Ina and friends 56 Hyacinth and Quaker friendship 56 Hyacinth and Quaker friendship 57 Hyacinth and Quaker friendship 2 57 Hyacinth and Quaker friendship 2
58 Hyacinth and Quaker friendship video 58 Hyacinth and Quaker friendship video 59 Hyacinth and Quaker friendship video 2 59 Hyacinth and Quaker friendship video 2 60 Hyacinth and Quaker friendship 3 60 Hyacinth and Quaker friendship 3 61 Parrots everywhere 61 Parrots everywhere
62 Get that tourist! 62 Get that tourist! 63 Tribal council 63 Tribal council 64 Lets swoop the tourists! 64 Lets swoop the tourists! 65 Us too! 65 Us too!
66 Gimme a kiss! 66 Gimme a kiss! 67 Litle Janday-Yaxche's cousin 67 Litle Janday-Yaxche's cousin 68 More Jandays 68 More Jandays 69 Macaw trashed Ina's binoculars 69 Macaw trashed Ina's binoculars
70 Gift shop 1 70 Gift shop 1 71 Gift shop 2 71 Gift shop 2 72 Gift shop 3 72 Gift shop 3 73 Hammock seller 73 Hammock seller
74 El Rafain samba show 74 El Rafain samba show 75 Folk dancers 75 Folk dancers 76 Another folk dance 76 Another folk dance 77 Samba 77 Samba
79 Samba 3 79 Samba 3 80 Samba finale 80 Samba finale
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