Birds
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Except for bats, birds are the only animals with backbones that can fly. These amazing creatures are found in every climate and geographic location imaginable. Colourful, graceful and musical, these feathered animals are beautiful to watch.
What makes birds different from other animals?
- They have feathers instead of hair.
- They have hollow bones, slender legs and a beak instead of heavy jaws and teeth.
- They reproduce by laying hard-shelled eggs.
Birds living at the Edmonton Valley Zoo
- American white pelican
- Araucana (domestic) chicken
- Bald eagle
- Barn owl
- Barred owl
- Black swan
- Blue and gold macaw
- Burrowing owl
- Emu
- Eurasian eagle owl
- Ferruginous hawk
- Great-horned owl
- Green aracari
- Harris' hawk
- Japanese quail
- Kea
- Laggar falcon
- Laughing kookaburra
- Peregrine falcon
- Red-tailed hawk
- Ring-necked dove
- Rouen clair duck
- Scarlet macaw
- Short-eared owl
- Snowy owl
- Solomon Island Eclectus parrot
- Spectacled owl
- Sulphur-crested cockatoo
For more information:
Edmonton Valley Zoo
13315 Buena Vista Road (87th Avenue)
PO Box 2359
Edmonton, Alberta T5J 2R7
| Telephone | In Edmonton: 311 Outside Edmonton: 780-442-5311 |
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| attractions@edmonton.ca |
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