What's on the Menu? Or How to Eat Like a Bird


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Caring for the National Aviary's large variety of birds with diverse and changing needs can be very costly. We only use restaurant-quality products (and the best rodents money can buy).

See how much food it takes each week to "eat like a bird" at the National Aviary:

2 cases of papayas	125 lbs. of smelts
30 lbs. of parrot pellets	25 lbs. of apples
40 lbs. of capelin	10 lbs. of crane pellets
30 lbs. of bananas	10 mackerels
50 lbs. of softbill pellets	18 lbs. of grapes
30 day old chicks	10 lbs. of waterfowl pellets
2 lbs. zucchini	12 adult chickens
10 lbs. of small bird pellets	25 lbs. of oranges
10 adult quails	20 lbs. of low iron softbill pellets
7 lbs. of cucumbers	10 lbs. of cooked pasta
30 lbs. of flamingo fare	15 lbs. of frozen blueberries
88 weanling rats	50 lbs. of gamebird pellets
10 lbs. of green beans	126 weanling mice
2 lbs. of finch seeds	5 lbs. of brown rice
154 neonate rats	5 lbs. of bean sprouts
2 lbs. of assorted melons	70 lbs. of bird of prey mix
4 oz of hummingbird nectar	10 lbs. of frozen peas
40,000 mealworms	2 lbs. of lori nectar
20 lbs. of frozen corn	1,750 waxworms
1/3 lb. of vitamins and minerals	16 lbs. of carrots
7,000 crickets	5 lbs. of mangos
5 lbs. of tofu	1 case of kale
1 case of parsley	250 lbs. of pigeon seed
1 gal. of apricot juice	10 lbs. of beets with tops
15 lbs. of yams