Toledo Zoo Birds

After Breakfast With the Hippos, the missing gardener and I visited other parts of the zoo, including, of course, the aviary.

black-naped fruit dove (f)

black-naped fruit dove (m)

sunbittern

The back of a Siamese fireback. I have several nice pictures of the whole bird when it's farther back in the enclosure, meaning the mesh doesn't show. Every shot of the feathers that give the bird its name looks like this, with the mesh intruding.

red-whiskered bulbul

diamond firetail chicks

diamond firetail

This emerald starling kept trying to swallow a berry. The out-of-focus video below shows the action.