Northside
Description
In the zoo’s Northside area, you’ll find a series of aviaries featuring beautiful Asian birds, including the brilliantly colored Himalayan monal and the chattery white-crested jay thrush. This area is also home to Pallas’s cats, wild felines from central Asia.
Schedule
Open year-round
Accessibility
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Wheelchair Accessible
Look and Listen
Keep an eye out for the gorgeous silver pheasant, nick-named “forest fairy” in its native China. Males are black and white, females are mainly brown. Both sexes have red faces and red legs. And keep an ear out for the calls of the highly vocal white-crested laughingthrush, found in forest and scrub from the Himalayan foothills to Southeast Asia.
Multi-colored monal
The Himalayan monal is sometimes known as the ‘nine-colored bird’ due to the iridescent plumage on the neck and wings of the adult male. The female, though not as colorful, also has attractive mottled brown feathers. Both males and females have a distinctive blue patch around their eyes.
