What Makes It Unique
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Encounters with Snow-White Beauties
Snow-white Bali mynahs with brilliant blue eye masks in free flight or perched among green foliage are a sight to behold but could only be enjoyed by the privileged few because these beauties are so rare.
Now, in Songs of the Forest, you have the privilege of admiring the critically endangered feathered gems in proximity and enjoy their high- pitched tweets and chattering calls.
Laughing Tweeters and Melody Makers
For fans of bird songs, paradise awaits at Songs of the Forest. Here, cackles, tweets and chirps of laughingthrushes, starlings and other songsters from Asia and beyond fill the air, especially in the morning.
Challenging oneself to identify the different calls and tracking down the birds that belt out the songs must be the highlight of a stroll through this aviary.
The Silent Forests
In most parts of Southeast Asia, forests are falling silent because of the alarming rate at which songbirds are poached unsustainably for the cagebird trade.
Songs of the Forest shines a spotlight on the Asian songbird crisis which requires urgent attention. Find out what we are doing to help songbirds from extinction and how you can support us in our songbird conservation efforts.
Animals
Black-winged myna
The black-winged mynas' melodious song, along with their lively temperament and striking plumage make them highly-prized in the cage bird trade.
Greater green leafbird
The largest and heaviest leafbird, this bird has a powerful, hooked bill that it uses to pierce mid-sized fruits with a tough covering.
Santa Cruz ground-dove
This bird is observed to perch on low branches and roost in trees. It comes to the ground to forage for food and this is when it is most vulnerable to the introduced rats, cats, dogs and pigs that are found in much of its range.
Encounters with wildlife
Songbirds Keeper Talk
Daily Songs of the Forest 4:00pmImmerse yourself in the melodious sounds of our songbirds!
Together We Protect Wildlife
Spare No Birds
Unsustainable trapping of songbirds has driven even the most abundant songbirds to extinction. Many trapped songbirds die in transit because of the appalling conditions in which they are transported.
When the population of a `trending’ songbird species plummets, poachers target another species that is still abundant, repeating the vicious cycle, again and again!
Saving the Last Songs, Together
Only a small number of songbirds are protected, and enforcement of laws is often lacking. The dearth of information on illegal trade hampers conservation work. Online trading hastens illegal trade and makes monitoring even more challenging.
We host the IUCN-SSC Asian Songbird Trade Specialist Group (ASTSG) to drive songbird conservation across Southeast Asia through stakeholder engagement.
