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What are birds?

Birds are the only vertebrates that have feathers. All birds are warm-blooded, and they lay eggs. Adaptations such as hollow bones enable most birds to fly, although there are flightless birds, including the ostrich. There are approximately 9,000 bird species in the world; below is the list of birds on exhibit at the Zoo. Please click the bird links to view their fact sheets.

Bittern, sun Cassowary, Double-wattled Cockatoo, Goffin's Cockatoo, Salmon-crested Condor, Andean Crane, West African black-crowned Curassow, great Duck, white-faced whistling Eagle, African fish Eagle, Steller's sea Eagle-owl, Eurasian Egret, snowy Flamingo, American Flamingo, Chilean Flamingo, greater Frogmouth, tawny Hawk, Harris’s Hawk, red-tailed Hawk-eagle, Japanese mountain Hornbill, Abyssinian ground Hornbill, red-knobbed Ibis, American white Ibis, sacred Ibis, scarlet Jay, plush-crested Junglefowl, Cochin-Chinese red Kookaburra, laughing Macaw, blue and gold Macaw, military Macaw, scarlet

Magpie, yellow-billed Oropendola, crested Ostrich Owl, spectacled Parrot, thick-billed Peafowl, Congo Pelican, brown Pigeon, Nicobar Pigeon, Scheepmaker's crowned Raven, common Robin-chat, white-crowned Screamer, Southern crested Seriema, red-legged Spoonbill, roseate Starling, blue-eared glossy Starling, purple glossy Starling, superb Sunbittern Swan, black-necked Tern, Inca Trumpeter, gray-winged Turaco, Gold Coast (green) Turaco, Lady Ross's Turaco, violaceous Turaco, Western gray Turaco, white-crested Vulture, Cape Griffon Vulture, king Weaver, black-headed Weaver, white-headed buffalo

Please click here to see an alphabetical list of all the animals on exhibit at the Zoo.