As Wingham Wildlife Park has continued to grow, specialize and constantly strive to improve our husbandry we have had to make a decision to change where we get our fresh produce was. In the past, we had received around 95% of our fruit and vegetables from supermarkets sending us their waste. This was always sufficient…
Now the days are getting shorter and it’s getting a bit chilly, I find myself really enjoying my time in the Tropical House here at Wingham Wildlife Park. Not only is it an escape from the elements on a miserable day but you can’t help but smile at the main attraction in there… our group…
Something way different this week from my usual blog topics and a special request from our Curator, Markus. Did you manage to catch our Wingham Bake-Off over lockdown? I didn’t win, mainly because I managed to make the worst cookies ever, but I had so much fun taking part… and I have since had another…
It has been a little while since I’ve written a blog post, but the other day I was doing some invertebrate surveying in the new bug garden and I just had to write about all the wildlife which we see at the park. We are of course a wildlife park, and we mostly specialise in exotic…
During our lockdown Facebook live streams, there was quite a lot of interest in the wild birds around the park and wild birds in general. So in my blog this week I’m going to point you in the direction of my top five places to go birding right here in east Kent. 1. Sandwich Bay…
Earlier this week we celebrated World Parrot Day! An important date in my diary, which takes place annually on the 31st of May. A day to appreciate how amazing these groups of birds are and to reflect on the threats they face in the wild. There are over 400 species of birds in the order…
It was fantastic to see how many of you enjoyed our live stream talk about the wild birds around the park. If you missed it, you can catch up HERE. It is feeling so spring-like outside at the moment I thought it would be great to talk about some of the wild birds to look…
If you’ve been following our social media you may have already seen some adorable pictures of the East African Crowned Crane chicks that hatched earlier in the year at our park. If not then don’t despair! In my blog this week I will be reminiscing about these bizarre looking birds. When you see our Cranes…
If you were keeping up with our live stream videos, you may have heard that we had some exciting news whilst the park was closed during lockdown. Our White Stork pair, Rodney and Cassandra, became first time parents! In previous years, the pair had nested without success, but in my blog this week I’d love…
Penguin Moult – the scruffy phase. Moulting King Penguins at Volunteer Point, the Falklands. Photo credit: John Buckingham Back to team bird for the keeper blog this week, and this time I’ll be covering penguin moult… because you just can’t have too many blogs about Penguins right? When you first see a moulting penguin, it…
