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Park specializes primarily in the south-eastern species of birds, but also focuses on feathered from Africa, South America and Europe.

Singapore is the main merit is that all birds are created living conditions as close to their natural habitat, from the Antarctic area for the penguins to the aviary with simulated tropical storms, designed specifically for the "local" species from Southeast Asia.

The main area of the park - four huge aviary in which the birds live, and where visitors can safely go. All arranged so that it seems as if the birds live in freedom and fly right over the heads of the guests.

Create a park planned, Finance Minister Dr Goh Keng Swee (Dr Goh Keng Swee). The prototype served as the zoo in Rio de Janeiro, which Goh visited during a business trip. The official was impressed by the fact that birds can live in captivity so easily - without enclosures. Then he decided that the area can be done to Jurong Singaporeans more important and interesting than just an industrial area of the city. He planned to make it a place where people can relax at one with nature. This was the main idea of the construction of the first in the whole of Southeast Asia Bird Park.

The dome roof of the entrance to the Jurong Bird Park

In December 1968, has been selected Jurong West slope of a hill (Bukit Perepok). Not counting the cost of land, construction of the park has been spent 3.5 million dollars. Largely due to the fact that the initiator of the creation of the park was the Minister of Finance, the search for the required amount of money does not take long. Once the construction is over, the authorities were ordered to ambassadors and foreign officials in Singapore to acquire birds for the new park. From that moment, the cells with finches, pheasants, herons, wild ducks, owls and cockatoos from around the world began arriving in the park. And besides, the day of the opening of the Jurong received a gift birds from 12 countries, seven zoos and forty individuals.

Every year, 850,000 tourists a year visit this recognized as the best in the region, the bird park. The number of birds is also increasing year by year, and, in addition, there is the program to save the endangered species.

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