There is an area at Kobe Animal Kingdom specially for birds like parakeets, pigeons, love birds , parrots and toucans. It is a wide netted area where the birds are free to perch on tree branches or hop to the ground or feed from the open palms of visitors. These birds are so used to people that they just fly about and perch on anyone's shoulder or head to beg for bird seeds or fruit slices.
The bird feed are not free. You have to buy a small cup of bird feed from the staff assigned and then coo to the birds for them to come and get some from your open hands. The big-billed toucans are most fun and exciting because they perch on your arm for the fruit slices in the cup.
this is my friend feeding the pretty toucan
Bird Shows
The tropical plant area is where they hold the Bird Shows. Trained birds fly and perform for the visitors to marvel. There's a lot of ooohs and aaahs you hear from the thrilled audience as these birds fly from one handler to another, sometimes way too low that for a second you'll think they will graze the tops of the heads of the audience. The birds perform tricks and one even tried to "talk" to the delight of everybody.
After each show, the visitors can line up for photo ops with these birds and their handlers. I wanted to have one photo taken with this owl , but the line was long. We had to see other scheduled shows in another area, so I thought maybe some other time.
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