No realistic zoo without birds

[Ciudad]

Every zoo in all over the world has birds. Eagles, parrots, pheasants, vultures, owls or some small ones. I agree to want to have aquatic animals but birds stays on the same level.

[Twisty2k7]

Couldn't agree more. I would be very surprised if the next/final DLC adds birds in as it will give SO many more species to add in at a time when the game is done for new content, but I would be AMAZED if PZ2, whenever that is announced, doesn't have the ability to build aviaries.

[Bobby]

We are members of our Zoo for about 10 years, prior to that we visited for over 30 years.
In that time there has been a dramatic decline in bird species.
The reason being is twofold:
Cost: some species require heated tropical environments and therefore won’t be outside. The heating is very expensive today. Plus we have avian bird flu ever present which can and will decimate a caged flock and they do not have the facilities to house and separate individual birds.

Endangered list: This is primarily the main reason.
Zoo’s are about conservation. No longer are they the old fashioned Victorian visitor attraction with Elephants,Lions,Tigers,Giraffes behind bars.
Due to man’s destruction of the planet and habitats like the Amazon jungle being destroyed,
So unless birds and animals are on a ‘Red List’. They no longer accommodate them.
They will try and get animals on the Red List to breed or share with other zoos to increase populations to the point of releasing into the wild - sometimes controlled zones and parks

[petr.mirovsky]

Totally agree, birds & aquariums would be great addition.

[Vakr]

The Greater Flamingo, Red Crested Crane, Southern Cassowary, Mute Swan, Brown Kiwi, Common Ostrich, Emu, African Penguin, Indian Peafowl, Little penguin, Sussex Chicken, and the King Penguin would like a word with you.

But it would be cool to see some birds that fly a little more, some of the predators, owls and things would be nice and the more famous tropical birds would attract players I believe.

[grampers62]

It does seem that it wouldn't be too difficult to do a small tropical bird in the walk through...
Or even a selection of a few species the way we have butterflies.

[Anthracite]

They're almost certainly saving flying birds as a selling point for PZ2. Slimy business move, sure, but it makes some sense.