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unusual facts about Aviary



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Cearadactylus

Cearadactylus was featured in the Jurassic Park novel by Michael Crichton, in which they attack Alan Grant, Tim Murphy and Lex Murphy when they wander into the aviary.

Cedric Price

As a working architect, he was associated with Maxwell Fry and Denys Lasdun before he started his own practice in 1960, working with The Earl of Snowdon and Frank Newby on the design of the Aviary at London Zoo (1961).

Chestnut-backed Thrush

According to the Zoological Information Management System (ZIMS) there are only 19 European institutions which hold this species, including: - Birdworld, Bristol Zoo, Chester Zoo, Durrell Wildlife Park, Burgers' Zoo and Waddesdon Manor aviary.

Grand Falconer of France

This notwithstanding, Louis XIV maintained an aviary of hunting birds, located (from 1680 on) in Montainville, as a symbol of power.

Hooded Pitta

In the London Zoo, they are kept in a large walk through aviary in the restored Blackburn Pavilion bird house, while at the Durrell Wildlife park they are in a large walk-through exhibit with birds such as Palawan Peacock-Pheasants and White-rumped Shamas.

Large-billed Reed Warbler

A breeding site of the Large-billed Reed Warbler Acrocephalus orinus, was discovered in the Wakhan Corridor of the Pamir of north-eastern Afghanistan by Researcher Robert Timmins of the Wildlife Conservation Society who was studying aviary communities in the Pamir Mountains.

Osterley

Besides Osterley House and Park, the district is also known for embracing one of the London residences of The Sultan of Brunei (The Aviary Farm in Windmill Lane).

Pavlovsk Palace

Cameron constructed a small Swiss chalet with a library; a dairy of rough stones with a thatched roof, where milk products were kept and prepared, and an aviary in the form of a small classical temple with metal netting between the Dorian columns, which was filled with nightingale, goldfinch, starling and quail.


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