The South Georgia pintail, also misleadingly known as the South Georgian teal, is the nominate subspecies of the yellow-billed pintail. South Georgia pintails are omnivorous and feed by foraging along shores, diving for shrimp or clams, and sometimes feeding on the carcasses of small animals like seals. Here is one trying to hide in a log hole at the Sylvan Heights Bird Park.
South Georgia Pintail
A parakeet is any one of many small- to medium-sized parrot species, in multiple genera, that generally have long tail feathers. The two basic parakeet color types are green and blue.
Parakeets at Sylvan Heights Bird Park are in a small protected enclosure where visitors can feed them, and the birds sit on the visitors’ hands or heads.
Parakeet
Parakeet Grooming
Budgerigar or Parakeet
Flamingos feed on everything suitably sized in shallow water, from brine shrimp to insect larvae and insects themselves. Their famous color comes from carotenoids in blue-green algae, which they either eat directly or consume through aquatic algal-feeding animals.
A Pair of American Flamingos
Acacia Station at the North Carolina Zoo is a giraffe viewing deck where you can see giraffes eye-to-eye and take portrait shots. It is exciting to feed lettuce to giraffes with a long tongue.
Giraffe Looking at You
The Forest Edge habitat at the North Carolina Zoo has giraffes and zebras. Guests can see the animals at four different viewing areas. The habitat is 3.5 acres and mimics the lightly wooded savannas found in Kenya.Here are portraits of giraffes from the Giraffe Deck, where you get eye-to-eye with these long-legged giants and even feed them.
Giraffe Portrait
Giraffe Looking Away
Side View of Giraffe
A covered barge with feed at Swan Lake Iris Gardens, Sumter, SC attracts a variety of birds
