Rainbow Jungle is a tourist attraction and is Australia's Parrot Breeding Centre. It is filled with many native Australian parrots, as well as some exotic species. Tilda loves birds, and we took hundreds of photos, hence this gets its own blog post. If you are ever in this part of WA I thoroughly recommend spending the money ($44/family) to check out this place. We spent 3.5 hours there, enjoying a lovely lunch at the onsite cafe, as well as all the birds. About half of our time was spent in the open aviary where around 100 native birds are free to fly around. There are nesting boxes and bird-built nests scattered throughout the space and if you take your time and look carefully among the plants you are rewarded with so many different birds, doing what birds do. There are bird feeding dishes filled with seeds and fresh fruit pieces, and you can see lots of the parrots on these. They are not tame, by any means, despite having people visiting regularly and I like that because it feels much more natural. I got to see some birds here that I had hoped to see in the wild, but that we hadn't seen, like the Princess Parrot.
The photos are a mix of Tilda's and mine and I am so proud of how well she did. I think I have the bird's names right, but some may not be.
Blue and Gold Maccaw
Superb Parrot
Red Winged?
King Parrot (foreground) and a Mulga Parrot (background)
Red capped
Superb Parrot
Eclectus
Gang Gang
Red Capped
Princess Parrot
Scarlet Maccaws
Rainbow Lorikeet
Scarlet Maccaw
Princess Parrot
Red Capped
Green Winged Maccaws
Yellow Tailed Black Cockatoos
Red Tailed Black Cockatoo
Red Tailed Black Cockatoo
Port Lincoln or 28 Parrot
Our favourites were the Superb Parrots (they truly are 'superb'), the Maccaws (the scarlet ones said hello) and the Princess Parrot.
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