Flamingos, Cassowary, Vultures and more...
27/05/2017
Today sees the opening of our latest development here at Hamerton Zoo Park. The paths were finished yesterday allowing viewing of our Greater Flamingo flock, and one Cassowary enclosure. These birds have been resident at the Park for several years, but have recently been partly off-show whilst the building works progressed. The new Flamingo winter house has been set up with viewing windows, and in the spring and summer is being used as our new Bird Incubation & Rearing Unit. Visitors can now see several species of eggs being incubated and baby birds too. Two young Ruppell's Griffon Vultures hatched earlier in the spring are housed in the main room, on artificial nest pans. Later in the summer when they are fully fledged, they will join their parents in the large free-flight aviaries.