The young volunteer program that Gabe has been involved in this summer had some great hands on experiences set-up around the zoo. In this spot kids were able to test different tools that represented a variety of birds beaks. The flamingo’s beak acts as a strainer to catch their food. Dahlia experimented with her flamingo beak to catch all the floating goodies in the water.
Brecken pretended he was a woodpecker fighting to get a bug out of a tree. His woodpecker beak consisted of a set of tweezers. He was a very patient little bird.