Visitors will be able to walk among the birds in three aviaries
None are completely separated from the visitor by glass or cage.
The work transformed the historic 1928 bird house, which had not been updated in decades, into a modern space where visitors can mingle with 56 mostly migratory bird species, the zoo said.“It has been a remarkable journey to get here,” Sara Hallager, the curator of birds who wears bird motif earrings, said during a preview of the exhibit earlier this month.“I tell people it’s the most wonderful, awful, terrible, beautiful, exciting, thrilling, exhausting experience of my life,” she said.
In addition to the outside enclosed display area, the facility simulates three watery habitats frequented by migratory birds on their epic journeys from Canada to the Mid-Atlantic to Central and South America. It’s a different approach from the old displays. “These migratory birds, even though we think of them as our birds, they really are tropical species that come north to breed,” he said. “They spend the majority of their lives in the tropics.”
“This bird in particular is kind of this heroic creature,” Sillett said. “They’ll eat and eat and eat,” and double their body mass. The first aviary focuses on shore birds — plovers, sandpipers, sanderlings — that come to the Delaware Bay around Cape May, N.J., to munch on horseshoe crab eggs.
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