We started the day with a safari trip. On the trip, we saw the usual captive animals and got rather close to the Giraffes. Of course, this is a BIRDING blog so I won't be mentioning them, you can take a look at them on the zoo website. In a lake which the zebras were drinking from I spotted several white-faced herons, a masked lapwing and two magpie geese. Magpie geese are considered threatened in Victoria, but can often be seen on safaris at Werribee. In the hippo lake I managed to see a Australasian grebe swimming.
After the safari tour, we went on the African carnivore walk. At the hippo section, there were a few chestnut teals. Just then, I saw something on the mud at the edge of the lake. It was a bird I had only seen twice before, a black-fronted dotterel!
After that we went and saw the night serval cat presentation and some fire-dancing before we went home. We had a great time at the zoo.
A serval cat with a zookeeper,
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