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| - They have some really cool birds here......if they LET you see them. Firstly, this place used to be free to the public. Now, they charge $10 for admittance (if not a student or military), which is a bit excessive for a place like this. Secondly, you have to pay an extra $5 to see "Flight Shows", which is a two-part problem. The first part is you have to pay extra for this in the first place; the second part is they do two shows a day, 2 hours apart, and close the pavilion for 30 minutes before and after each show. Meaning, if you don't pay extra to see the flight show, there is a ~3+ hour window in the afternoon where you will not be able to see all of the birds because they do not put them back out until all shows are done. We were also treated obnoxiously by one of the volunteer bird handlers when we were looking at the Barn Owl cage, which unannounced to us, were being used in the flight show and not just hiding in their boxes. There were also no demonstrations on the trail with the birds as promised. They also closed the pavilion 10 minutes earlier than they were supposed to, and so we missed yet another glimpse at another specimen used in the next upcoming show.
Yes they do rehabilitate birds, and this is a good cause. But this was our first visit, and we won't be back.
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