Monterey Bay Aquarium’s Birds
Posted by juliana on June 1st, 2008 filed in Birds, Marine WildlifeMonterey Bay Aquarium has a three bird exhibits. The Aviary, The penguin exhibit, and the new Common Murres. I enjoy all of them, but the Aviary is my favorite.
The Aviary
The aviary is an exhibit featuring many different bird species, such as Bufflehead ducks, a Ruddy duck, 
Sanderlings, Snowy Plovers, Semipalmated Plovers, a Black-necked Stilt, a Black Oystercatcher, a Long-billed Curlew, and more. It is really interesting to see all of the different species of birds. Their exhibit consists of water, sand, and brush. In the water their are some sharks and rays. An interesting feature of their exhibit is the how they have a machine in the water that moves back and forth creating waves to mimic their natural habitat! One bird that particularly interested me swam around the water in circles to catch the fish it ate. My favorite bird was the snowy plover.
Penguins
In the Monterey Bay Aquarium’s Splash Zone, they have an African black-footed penguin exhibit. When I was there, almost all of them clustered around the glass, where the most people were watching them. One of them was molting. In the exhibit they have a glass “bubble” you can crawl into and watch the penguins swim around you. The Splash Zone is newly remodeled, so they have made some changes at the penguin exhibit, they now have a penguin trivia game next to the exhibit.
Common Murres
Next to the penguin exhibit they have some new Common Murres. They’re on a ledge overlooking the Outer Bay exhibit.
Monterey Bay Aquarium rescued these Murres from an oil spill. They have about eight of them. They’re very cute!
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