Indoor Aviary

These four walls are filled with a fascinating array of colors and sounds unlike anything you could ever experience in the natural world. The mix of minstrel-like mouths that makeup this place, pass through the air, announcing themselves with wild wails and crooning clicks, capturing through sound the vast amount of amazing life filling our awesome planet. An aviary is a large enclosure for confining birds. Unlike cages, aviaries allow birds a larger living space where they can fly; hence, aviaries are also sometimes known as flight cages. Aviaries often contain plants and shrubbery to simulate a natural environment. The Bronx Zoo's World of Birds, a two-story bird house completed in 1972, is a huge, landscaped, indoor free-flight exhibit. The one-way flow pattern in the exhibit moves the visitors through twenty-five birds habitats, ranging from desert to tropical forest. Each setting recreates with impressive fidelity the microculture of the birds that fly merrily about within their diorama world, complete with living plants. Five of the aviaries are completely open: in two of the largest the uncaged public walks through the habitat with birds freely overhead. This sound uses the following file from Freesound: http://www.freesound.org/samplesViewSingle.php?id=97376