Kuala Lumpur Bird Park

Coordinates: 3°08′33″N 101°41′18″E / 3.1424337°N 101.6884661°E

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Kuala Lumpur Bird Park
Seen from the west towards the city centre

3°08′33″N 101°41′18″E / 3.1424337°N 101.6884661°E / 3.1424337; 101.6884661
Date opened	15 November 1991; 33 years ago (1991-11-15)^[1]
Location	Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Land area	20.9 acres (8.5 ha)^[2]
No. of animals	3,000^[2]
No. of species	200^[2]
Annual visitors	200,000
Website	Official Web site

Kuala Lumpur Bird Park (Malay: Taman Burung Kuala Lumpur) is a 20.9-acre (8.5 ha) public aviary in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. It is one of the world's largest covered bird parks, located adjacent to the 60-hectare (150-acre) Perdana Botanical Gardens, Kuala Lumpur Butterfly Park, the National Mosque and Royal Malaysian Police Museum. The Bird Park houses more than 3,000 birds representing more than 200 species in an enclosed aviary. About 90% are local birds and 10% were imported from countries such as Australia, China, Holland, Indonesia, New Guinea, Tanzania and Thailand.^[1]^[3]

Transportation

The park is served by the following bus routes:^[4]

Intrakota Bus 21C, 48C (From Kota Raya).
Intrakota Bus 18, 21A (From Chow Kit).
RapidKL Bus 115 (From KL Sentral).

Image gallery

Internal view of the bird park
Performance
Great Hornbill
A chick in the education centre
Feeding time for rainbow lorikeets and a red lory
A slice of papaya for birds
Rainbow lorikeets in KL Bird Park
Milky storks crossing over
A bird feeding of a piece of papaya
A peacock in the park
A view near the park entrance
A white parrot
Egret at KL Bird Park, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
A view of a side-sitting
A peacock

Notes

^ ^a ^b "KL Bird Park". malaysiasite.nl. WINT. Retrieved 3 April 2011.
^ ^a ^b ^c "About Us". klbirdpark.com. Kuala Lumpur Bird Park. Archived from the original on 3 April 2011. Retrieved 3 April 2011.
^ Frankham, Steve (2008). Lake Gardens National Monument. ISBN 9781906098117.
^ "Getting Here". klbirdpark.com. Kuala Lumpur Bird Park. Archived from the original on 3 May 2011. Retrieved 3 April 2011.

External links

Media related to Kuala Lumpur Bird Park at Wikimedia Commons

Official website

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