The Colour of Malaysia

Went out to the Jurong Bird Park today.  Took the MRT west to the end of the line, Boon Lay.  From there it was a short bus ride to the park.  They ain’t kidding …..they sure do have a hell of a lot of birds.  Over 9000 individual birds across about 600 species which is one of the largest collections of birds in the world, according to their brochure.

We caught the first show of the day, the “Birds n Buddies” show.  That was quite cool.  It opened with a bunch of flamingos walking into the stage area and the guy running the show followed them a minute or so later.

They all just fluttered about until he ushered them off the stage area.  I assume there were other handlers off to the side giving them commands.  I didn’t realise that flamingos (flamingii ???) could be trained like that!

They went on to do several other acts with different species of birds.

There are some real weird-ass looking ones. 

The slam-dunking parrots were pretty special.

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Another part of the show involved members of the audience holding up hula-hoops.  The birds flew from one side of the auditorium to the other and passed through the hoops. Then they mixed it up a little and had two birds fly at the same time and pass in the middle.  Yet another saw a bird fly through one of the hoops that had rice paper stretched across it.

Apart from the birds, I just love the sets they build at these places.  Some of the buildings are awesome.

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written by Twoflower