Pictures of "Lorikeets" at the Portland Oregon Zoo (in May 2006)

Pictures from the Portland Oregon Zoo in May 2006...

These are pictures of "RAINBOW LORIKEETS" ("Trichoglossus haematodus moluccanus") taken at the Portland Oregon Zoo in May 2006. These birds are held in a large cage with an airlock type enterance. This is, you go through one screen door, down a screened in "corridore" and through anoyther screen door. On the outsidce, there were a couple of docents who sold little paper cups of sugar water. The birds love to drink this stuff and will swarm over anyone holding the cups of sugar water. It is quite an experience...