Kuala Lumpur Bird Park 8pm) is also accessible from the car park for diners who do not wish to enter the park. Feeding time: Hornbills: 11:30am Zone 4: This zone has a walk-in parrot enclosure with 20 different species of parrots such as Macaws, Cockatoos, Lories and Parakeets. It also features the Flightless Birds exhibit with Emu, Ostrich and Southern Cassowary. Don't miss the feeding station (near the Bird Gallery) that allows visitors to hand feed these flightless birds. The air-conditioned Bird Gallery, Education Station and Bird School teaches visitors more about avian life. The Education Station has egg incubators where visitors can see
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