Bush thick-knee curlews are medium to large birds endemic to Australia, with strong black or yellow black bills, large yellow eyes and gray/stone-colored plumage. They are largely nocturnal, particularly when singing their loud wailing songs. Thick-knee refers to the prominent joints in the long yellow or greenish legs which have a ‘backwards’ ankle.

We have a variety of lorikeets in our park, easily identified by their bright plumage! Approximately 70% of their day is spent feeding, and lorikeets will travel more than 30 miles a day to find food. Some lorikeets can feed on as many as 650 flowers each day. Lorikeets have very specialized tongues and a uniquely shaped beak! The upper mandible has a long, pointed tip and much narrower structure than other parrots. This serves to easily extract hard-to-reach seeds from cones and other hard vegetation. The birds will scrape the fruit on the inside of their bill and remove the sweet juices with their specialized tongues. Rainbow Lorikeets have been introduced in Western Australia, in Perth, New Zealand, Auckland, Tasmania, and Hong Kong.

Guira cuckoos can be found in South America in Bolivia, Paraguay, Brazil and Argentina. They prefer drier trees, scrub savanna, scrub woodlands, and coastal dunes. These birds usually dine on insects, grasshoppers, cicadas, flying termites, frogs, eggs, and nestlings of small birds.

Turacos are the only birds to possess true red and green color. When you look at most birds, the color you are seeing is a reflection produced by the feather structure. The turaco's red pigment (turacin) and green pigment (turacoverdin) both contain copper. In fact, if you stirred a glass of water with a red turaco feather, the water would turn pink! Turacos are often considered frugivores but will also eat flowers, buds, young shoots, insects, moths, snails and slugs. Turacos are found in dense lowland and mountain forests of central and southern Africa. They prefer the canopy level of such forests and are agile climbers.