The park is very well organised with many activities during the day. Once inside we headed for the free flight bird show where we saw a magpie, barn owl, curlew and black kite put through their paces. Spinifex pigeons and finches provided some light relief and a tawny frogmouth pretended to be a tree branch.
We booked a spot to have an encounter with Rory the eagle and certainly got up close to him. The park used to have a pair of eagles in their bird show but they have been rehabilitated and released because a pair of wild eagles moved in to the nearby cliffs.
We called into the excellent nocturnal house where we saw reptiles, insects and mammals which can only be seen at night. We watched a thorny devil lapping up ants as they ran along the log in front of him.
After lunch we continued our walk around the park, stopping off at the aviaries we passed.
The park has areas devoted to river beds, sandy deserts, waterholes and woodlands - each is very diverse and they are teeming with life.
There is nothing dead about the Central Australian Desert.
A magnificent quilt interprets the Desert Park and its plants and animals.
Hi! Can you tell me the author of the art piece? It’s beautiful! Thank u
ReplyDeleteThis beautiful piece is a quilt. I don’t know who the artist is. Perhaps you could email the Alice Springs Desert Park for the information. The photo was taken in 2013.
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