They have evolved such beautiful colours on their feathers, they specialize in the noise they make, each unique in their own way. Their beauty is what's keeping them in this "prison".
Locked up cages next to one another, usually with one bird in each, sometimes if they are lucky a couple will be locked in the same cell. Every time you walk by, it trys to grab your attention with its stare, with noises of their beak knocking on the metal cage or with its signature chirping sound.
Their scenery in their cell rarely changes. Their solution to boredom is spending hours trying to chew off their metal ring around its foot. Some demonstrates their frustration by simply chewing off all of its feathers until skin is revealed.
Because of this, I have fallen even deeper in love with birding. In the past, I have wondered why waterbirds are not seen in zoos but now I have come to realized that it is simply because they are just not as "good-looking"...phew.
Sometimes, I close my eyes when I am in there and while I listen to the birds I imagine that I am in the Amazon Rainforest :)
