The world’s 17 species of penguin are found only in the southern hemisphere, and Taronga is home to two of them.
Taronga Blog
Keyword: free flight bird show
A Star is Born (5/2/2010)
After a couple of months of training, Ripley the Barking Owl starred in her first free flight bird show this week.
Lets go fly a Kite.. (29/1/2010)
The crazy ups and downs of the weather lately have made for some interesting flying for Dixie the Whistling Kite. On the hot, still days she has done more sitting than flying but the constantly changing temperatures and wind directions have meant that on other days she’s done some spectacular flying. Southerly breezes bring the best flying conditions to the bird show and those are the days that I feel truly lucky to be doing this job!
