Bali Bird Park
Aviary park of natural-habitat enclosures housing hundreds of bird species, including a critically endangered island songbird bred here for release.
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About this audio guide
This guide centers on the Bali starling, a small white forest bird that by 2001 had been reduced to fewer than ten individuals left in the wild, prized as a caged pet and stolen from its only home in Bali's northwest by poachers faster than it could breed. You'll hear how Bali Bird Park keeps these birds as breeding stock, part of a decades-long effort alongside groups like the Begawan Foundation to build a population strong enough to send back into the wild. It also traces the setbacks researchers have found in tracking released birds, and what those numbers suggest about whether the trade ever really stopped.
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