Montevideo has a wide variety of native birds. As you might expect for South America, they seem exotic to “outsiders.” I’m still not used to having flocks of parakeets flying around the back yard, myself. The most common birds here are a Hornero (not pictured), the Tero (top picture), and the Monk Parakeet (the green birds with blue wings). I don’t know what the other pictured below is yet.
At the risk of causing some trouble doing birds near cats…. The zoo has quite a selection of birds in the bird house, behind glass, and a walk through atrium with birds.
Something rather notable about the Houston Zoo, to me, was the number of birds on display. Their collection seems to be considerably larger than most other zoos I have been to. Unfortunately, the cage design made it difficult to get good pictures.
