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Haul out the holiday cheer with your favorite feathered friends starting Black Friday, November 28! The National Aviary’s Holiday Happenings Presented by Baird Private Wealth Management Fleming Rodgers Group are a MUST for your seasonal bucket list, from snapping photos with The Grinch and his skunk friend to a BRAND NEW, musical holiday special: Jingle Bell Flock!

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Daily, except Tuesdays | 11 am and 2 pm
Members: $4 per person; Non-Members: $5 per person

Beginning Fri., November 28: Get ready to duck the halls with our BRAND NEW holiday-inspired, immersive bird show: Jingle Bell Flock, presented by AAA Travel. This festive take features holiday-themed songs like “The Blackbird Song” (aka The Christmas Song) featuring a Pied Crow or American Crow, using their natural behavior of grabbing trinkets, to fill a holiday stocking with presents and candy canes, “Silver Gulls” (aka Silver Bells), and so much more!

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Pied Crow, Jon Snow, holding a candy cane in his beak, beginning to put it into a stocking

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Dillion the Martial Eagle perched on a log on the floor of a mythical-inspired Forest.

Explore wondrous woodlands and the birds that inhabit them during the National Aviary’s fall theme: Forests Presented by Peoples!  
 
Unearth the magic of the forest fringe alongside a Martial Eagle that evokes the poise of a mythological Hippogriff. Travel through far-off fantasy lands of vast tree canopies and dense undergrowth during BRAND NEW Expert Talks, Feedings, and MORE Daily Activities; included with General Admission. Forests sunsets on Mon., November 24.

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Thank You to Forests Sponsor:

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