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Holiday Happenings 2024

Season’s Greetings Saturdays

August 1st, 2025

Get your wish list and cameras ready… Santa and his penguin helpers are coming to the National Aviary!

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Tags: christmas, family, holiday, penguin, santa, season's greetings saturdays

Owl-O-Ween

August 1st, 2025

Trick or Treat! Bring your kids to visit the National Aviary for Halloween fun!

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Tags: fall, family, halloween, owl-o-ween, owls

Holiday Happenings 2024

Season’s Greetings Saturdays

October 3rd, 2024

Sat., December 21 | 10 am – 2 pm | Included with General Admission

Get your wish list and cameras ready… Santa and his penguin helpers are coming to the National Aviary!

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Tags: christmas, family, holiday, penguin, santa, season's greetings saturdays

Holiday Happenings 2024

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Season’s Greetings Saturdays

October 3rd, 2024

Sat., December 14 | 10 am – 2 pm | Included with General Admission

Get your wish list and cameras ready… Santa and his penguin helpers are coming to the National Aviary!

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Tags: christmas, family, holiday, penguin, santa, season's greetings saturdays

Holiday Happenings 2024

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Season’s Greetings Saturdays

October 3rd, 2024

Sat., December 7 | 10 am – 2 pm | Included with General Admission

Get your wish list and cameras ready… Santa and his penguin helpers are coming to the National Aviary!

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Tags: christmas, family, holiday, penguin, santa, season's greetings saturdays

Holiday Happenings 2024

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Season’s Greetings Saturdays

August 3rd, 2023

Sat., November 30 | 10 am – 2 pm | Included with General Admission

Get your wish list and cameras ready… Santa and his penguin helpers are coming to the National Aviary!

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Tags: christmas, family, holiday, penguin, santa, season's greetings saturdays

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Owl-O-Ween

July 22nd, 2024

Sun., October 27 | 11 am – 3 pm | Included with General Admission

Trick or Treat! Bring your kids to visit the National Aviary for Halloween fun!

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Tags: fall, family, halloween, owl-o-ween, owls

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Owl-O-Ween

July 22nd, 2024

Sat., October 26 | 11 am – 3 pm | Included with General Admission

Trick or Treat! Bring your kids to visit the National Aviary for Halloween fun!

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Tags: fall, family, halloween, owl-o-ween, owls

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Owl-O-Ween

July 22nd, 2024

Sun., October 20 | 11 am – 3 pm | Included with General Admission

Trick or Treat! Bring your kids to visit the National Aviary for Halloween fun!

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Tags: fall, family, halloween, owl-o-ween, owls

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Owl-O-Ween

July 22nd, 2024

Sat.., October 19 | 11 am – 3 pm | Included with General Admission

Trick or Treat! Bring your kids to visit the National Aviary for Halloween fun!

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Tags: fall, family, halloween, owl-o-ween, owls

In The News

National Aviary launching fall theme, offering whimsical encounters with feathered friends | WPXI

The National Aviary is launching its fall seasonal theme, ‘Forests Presented by Peoples,’ starting Sept. 3 and offering visitors an immersive experience with a diverse array of feathered friends.

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Extinct-in-the-wild Guam kingfisher hatches at National Aviary | KDKA News

A bird that's extinct in the wild recently hatched at the National Aviary.

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National Aviary leads nesting efforts to help critically endangered African penguins in Namibia | Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

There’s more than cuteness overload when it comes to the National Aviary’s flock of African penguins. This critically endangered species, expected to be extinct in a decade, is attracting attention – and help – in its fight for survival in the wild.

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Penguins hatched at National Aviary join colony with new names | MSN

The African penguin chicks that hatched at the National Aviary have new names, and they're ready to join the colony.

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Penguins hatched at National Aviary join colony with new names | KDKA News

The aviary revealed the penguins' names on Monday, sharing photos of the adorable siblings waddling around their new home.

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