The National Aviary will dedicate much of 2022 to celebrating its 70th anniversary. The party begins with a trip to the lush warmth of the Tropical Paradise exhibit, where exotic birds like Toco Toucans, Hyacinth Macaws and Victoria Crowned Pigeons peek out from the jungle canopy, walk alongside you and fly overhead.
Daily interactive programming includes the Tropical Rainforest Feeding and the Tropical Bat Hangout with Mayan Flying Foxes. You can even get up close and personal with one of the Aviary’s resident creatures, like a parrot, sloth or armadillo.
Two boat-billed herons are silhouetted in the windows of the Wetlands exhibit at the National Aviary on the North Side.Stephanie Gonzalez, of Texas, laughs while playing with a penguin through the glass of the Penguin Point exhibit.Hyacinth macaws sit on a branch in the Tropical Rainforest exhibit.A bird stands in the walkway in the Tropical Rainforest exhibit at the National Aviary on the North Side.A golden-breasted starling and other birds gather on a railing for a feeding session in the Tropical Rainforest exhibit at the National Aviary.Susan Cassidy, of Monroeville, watches as her 9-month-old granddaughter Charli Balawajder, of Jeannette, looks up at birds in the branches in the Tropical Rainforest exhibit.Laura Gutierrez, of Fairbanks, Alaska, looks up at birds in an enclosure in the Wetlands exhibit.Chris Gaus, a senior aviculturist, feeds fish to penguins through the glass of the Penguin Point exhibit during a daily Penguin Talk experience.Sylvia Ronquillo, senior aviculturist at the National Aviary, feeds hyacinth macaws.A penguin swims in the Penguin Point exhibit.Flamingos mingle in the Wetlands exhibit.Safia Akacem, 1, of McCandless, looks through a bubble into the Penguin Point exhibit.Two sunbitterns stand on a log in the Wetlands exhibit at the National Aviary.Amy Akacem, of McCandless, and her son Eli, 4, look through a tube into the Penguin Point exhibit.A scarlett-headed blackbird sits on a branch in the Grasslands exhibit.Sylvia Ronquillo, senior aviculturist at the National Aviary, throws out food to birds during a feeding session in the Tropical Rainforest exhibit.Owl finches sit together on a branch in the Grasslands exhibit at the National Aviary on the North Side.Chris Gaus, a senior aviculturist, feeds fish to penguins through the glass of the Penguin Point exhibit.Sylvia Ronquillo, senior aviculturist at the National Aviary, feeds birds as Susan Cassidy, of Monroeville, points out birds to her 9-month-old granddaughter Charli Balawajder, of Jeannette, in the Tropical Rainforest exhibit at the National Aviary on the North Side.
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