Natural Park of S.Alessio – Part I
admin April 18th, 2007
The natural park of S.Alessio it’s specialized in the recovery of wild birds, founded in the year 1994 with the help of LIPU – Lega Italiana Protezione Uccelli
We decided to visit it during the month of March a few years ago. It is situated nearby the town of Pavia, following the directions from the official website should be fairly easy to find it. As soon as we arrived, we could admire the majesty of the entrance (photo above).
As you can see from those two photos, there aren’t only birds inside the natural park, but also other species of animals… more or less interesting and dangerous, depending on the point of views!
Anyway once you enter in the green zone, full of trees, it is really a funny situation: it’s almost a treasure hunt, trying to spot all the various birds on the trees’ branches.
This owl in the photo below for example (I think is an owl or something similar) was really well camouflaged, and I had to use my digital camera zoom to photograph it.
In the cages there were more particular and exotic birds like this tucano (I think) below:
this cute small white parrot instead was free to wander around at will… very funny also because he was talking to you, you could almost think he was trying to socialize with you!
… and lastly those two below, of color brown-red, that were always together like a couple:
