The Singapore Zoo, River Safari and Night Safari in Singapore are just awesome, so we decided to go to the only animal place that we didn’t go to yet: Jurong Bird Park.

When we came there, the first thing we saw were the penguins. Penguins swimming, penguins waddling, and one penguin was standing with his chest out and stood there, not moving. Me, Mom, and Evan guessed that he was thinking, “Oh yeah! Take out your phones and cameras and take pics of me! I am the best penguin!” It was funny! The keeper of the enclosure came too, and started giving fish to the penguins. One second, the penguins were just doing whatever they were doing. The next, they saw the fish, and like rocket boosters were attached to them, they ran/waddled their way to the keeper. Mmmmm, delicious!

When we came out of the enclosure, we noticed that everybody was going in the same direction. We went with them, and discovered that they were all going to the auditorium, where a show would be starting in 5 minutes. We came just in time, and sat down in a good place before the show started. Birds started flying and showing off their skills. Our favorite was a green parrot who could talk. He could sing the alphabet, say the numbers, and a lot more! It was great! There was also a macaw who could fly through loops. If the parrot was this >, then this is the course that it flew: >   O        O        O. It was cool. The show, overall, was really nice!

We wanted to see the hornbills and parrots the most, so we rushed on to the exhibit. On the way, we went to the crowned pigeon . They looked like…. well, crowned pigeons! When we finally got to the hornbill exhibit, we saw a keeper holding a rhinoceros hornbill. She said that the horn on top was the species’ amplifier. When the bird called, the sound went into the horn and came out magnified. It helped the birds when the male wanted to attract a female. We saw other parrots and hornbills too. We still liked the rhinoceros hornbill most, and named him Rhino. He was our favorite bird in the park.

Our next destination in mind was the Macaw Palace. Going there, we saw vultures, emus, cassowaries, and others. They were all very active. In the pelican enclosure, there was water with fish inside. We wanted to see a pelican snatch a fish from the water! In the end, the pelican did not, so we went on. We stumbled upon a place called Lory Loft, which is a place where you can eat with birds nearby: Lorys and Lorikeets. When we came on the balcony, we bought some bird drink/food and started feeding the very colorful birds. It was awesome, to look at the birds up close!

We left the loft and went to the Macaw Palace. When we came there, the first enclosures were filled with the 3 rarest blue macaws in the world: Hyacinth, Lear’s, and the rarest of all: Spix’s Macaw. Sadly, there are only around 150 of them in existence, and all of them are under human care. We saw birds that were not blue, too. We saw our old Australian friends, the White Cockatoos. We also saw the red macaws that were in the show. All the birds were very loud and colorful!

The last birds in the park were the flamingos, big and pink. We had to go on a bridge across a lake, and on an island in the middle of the lake were the flamingos. They were called, “the supermodels of the bird world”. I understand why they called them that! They were all standing on one foot, and occasionally dipping their heads into the water to drink. There were 2 lakes of them and with different species. They were both very nice.

We came out of the park. I hope we come again to fly around and look at every bird!