On your trip around Blackbrook Zoo you’ll be sure to come across some of our biggest and baddest birds. We have lots!
These include the ostrich, whose head can be up to 9 foot in the air! And the emu – which lays dark green eggs, and also the cassowary - whose razor-sharp toe is used as a weapon in a karate-like kick!

Don’t worry though, our big birds are all safely contained within their enclosures!

And our many species of crane – more than any other zoo in Britain! Also on show are our Darwin’s rhea – the South American equivalent of the ostrich, reared at Blackbrook Zoo for the first time in over a hundred years!

Did you know?

• The male cassowary hatches the eggs and looks after the young, whilst the female has no part in bringing up the children!
• Ostriches, emu, rhea and cassowary all have wings, but these birds are much too big to use these to fly!
• The biggest bird in the world is the ostrich, from Africa.