We all want birds, but there's never been any guarantee they are coming. However, we have had a bone thrown our way with the addition of the red-crowned crane to the Wetlands Animal Pack.
So this thread is a bit of a game, I guess. Create an animal pack with only birds (no exhibit animals), but the one rule is that the birds don't fly. What that means is, no including birds that would require an aviary to contain. What kinds of birds don't require aviaries in zoos? Typically these are pheasants, waterfowl, waders, ratites, and so on; often these birds can fly, but either don't or are prevented from doing so.
Just to head off the inevitable, I'll also say that the puffin is a bird that requires an aviary. I have gone digging, and have yet to find a zoo that displays them outside of an aviary or indoor habitat they can't escape from. Puffins are accomplished fliers even if we usually only see them diving or chilling on cliffs.
Why no exhibit animal? Because while there are birds that would likely be small enough to be contained in an exhibit (hummingbirds) I don't believe Frontier would actually do that, and there is precedent for excluding an exhibit animal where no obvious choice exists (the Arctic Pack).
So I'll start things off:
So this thread is a bit of a game, I guess. Create an animal pack with only birds (no exhibit animals), but the one rule is that the birds don't fly. What that means is, no including birds that would require an aviary to contain. What kinds of birds don't require aviaries in zoos? Typically these are pheasants, waterfowl, waders, ratites, and so on; often these birds can fly, but either don't or are prevented from doing so.
Just to head off the inevitable, I'll also say that the puffin is a bird that requires an aviary. I have gone digging, and have yet to find a zoo that displays them outside of an aviary or indoor habitat they can't escape from. Puffins are accomplished fliers even if we usually only see them diving or chilling on cliffs.
Why no exhibit animal? Because while there are birds that would likely be small enough to be contained in an exhibit (hummingbirds) I don't believe Frontier would actually do that, and there is precedent for excluding an exhibit animal where no obvious choice exists (the Arctic Pack).
So I'll start things off:
- Southern ground hornbill.
- Himalayan monal.
- North Island brown kiwi.
- Emu.
- Mute swan.
- Grey crowned crane.
- Helmeted guineafowl.
