BIRDWORLD celebrated Love Your Zoo Week, a national initiative run by BIAZA (British and Irish Association of Zoos and Aquariums) to raise awareness of the Zoos within the UK.

Throughout the week, the Birdworld keepers carried out lots of additional talks, feeding sessions and fascinating activities for some of the birds and other animals around the park.

These included, an additional talk about the current zoo babies at Birdworld and a very popular session about the park’s flamboyance of flamingos – which have laid eggs at the park for the very first time this year.

The keepers also carried out their regular daily talks and shows such as penguin and pelican feeding and Birdworld’s famous outdoor flying display.

Throughout the week, visitors were also able to watch live sheep-shearing sessions down at the Jenny Wren farm and take part in additional feeding sessions with the farm keepers.

The arts and crafts tent was also full of would-be artists creating heart themed craft projects to take home and display.

Artist in residence, Jemma Wyllie, visited on selected days through the week to help visitors paint birds to display as part of a new project to support the Birdworld Conservation fund, which aims to aid important conservation projects both nationally and worldwide.

Mark Anderson, park general manager at Birdworld, said: “We were very excited to host another fantastic Love Your Zoo Week this year at Birdworld.

“Our keepers had a great time in hosting a multitude of fascinating talks and activities for our visitors to enjoy. Everyone had lots of fun and we now can’t wait for our summer programme of activities to begin.”