Paradise Park

Wildlife Sanctuary • Cornwall

Events and things to do throughout the year including Easter Egg Hunts, summer flying displays, Quiz trails around the Park, Halloween Pumpkin Trail and more.

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Make it a birthday to remember with your choice of four themed party rooms with the birthday child’s name displayed on the door.

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One of the main jobs for our Keepers is creating fun, interesting, interactive enrichment activities which are key in encouraging a range of normal behaviours that birds and mammals find rewarding, providing them with mental stimulation, social interaction and exercise.

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Flamingo Webcam

Flamingo webcam!

Paradise Park’s flamingo flock lives in the walled garden and the webcam shows the lagoon area where they skim for algae and build their nests out of the mud. Should there be bad windy weather, they will go into shelter for their protection.

NEWS FLASH Look out for Frankie, the flamingo chick, white/greyish in colour. If you don’t see the flamingos and the chick in the lagoon area during the day, then the best time is either early morning, or in the evening when some of the flamingos return to the lagoon for the night. Plus, see Frankies blog from day one HERE.

This season two eggs were laid, the first was Penelope and Colin’s but sadly this turned out to be infertile and did not hatch. The second, laid on 1 June, hatched after 30 days and was Edwina and Anthony’s egg. The chick, now called Frankie, is a brother or sister for Derek who is now six years old. We will not know if it is male or female for a while yet, as this Frankie is parent reared, so we will only find out when he/she has a vet check at some point in the future.

Lot of photos and stories about Derek, who was hand-reared by Keeper Becky Waite in 2019 HERE.

Help support our flock of Caribbean Flamingos
If you would like to make a donation towards the care and food for our flock of Caribbean flamingos, we would be extremely grateful. Thank you xx
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A video of the new chick taken on 6th July.

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Our only previous Caribbean flamingo chick is called DEREK, and hatched in 2019.

Derek at 17 days old and Keeper Becky at Paradise Park Cornwall
Derek Day 119 with the main flamingo flock

Derek was hand-reared by Keeper Becky with the help of the Keeper team. We had to wait until dna analysis of the egg shell before we knew if Derek (the name Becky gave the chick initially) was male or female. We got so used to ‘Derek’, that when we got confirmation she was female we decided to keep the name.
For more about Derek click here and for more information on Caribbean Flamingos please click here
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