LET'S GO PENGUINS! (Aviary Post 3)

Here is three month old Sidney. He is rooting for the Penguins and his namesake Sidney Crosby tonight, are you?

• Press Release on Sidney the African Penguin
• Eastern Conference Champion Hockey Team Pittsburgh Penguins

Aviary Post 2- Pigeons

On the way home from NYC back in January, I ran into the apparently now defunct "World of Pigeons." I knew that all pigeons and doves were of the same family, Columbidae, but I didn't realize how varied they were...truly a world of pigeons...until I went to the National Aviary in Pittsburgh yesterday...

Some of the Columbidae Family at the National Aviary:

• Nicobar Pigeon
• Pied Imperial Pigeon
• Victoria Crowned Pigeon
• Green-Naped Pheasant Pigeon
• Bartlett's Bleed Heart Dove
• Fruit Dove

Victoria Crowned Pigeon

fruit dove

Pittsburgh Aviary Post 1

This begins a series of posts based on my visit to the Pittsburgh Aviary yesterday (Friday May 30th). The following is a short video clip I took at the Free Flight Zone show of Max the Parakeet singing Happy Birthday. I wished I had turned the camera on sooner, because he just got done singing opera.