Fang Ye then began to envision the interior of the Hundred Birds Garden.
The variety of bird species was extremely plentiful, so much that using the entire Linhai Zoo to create a bird-themed park would be more than sufficient.
Therefore, it would be better to narrow the scope a bit and have a clearer theme.
Otherwise, in one garden, with tropical birds, temperate birds, polar birds, and all sorts of birds mixed together, could you create an environment suitable for their lives?
He thought about it and decided to focus on forest birds that are more suitable for indoor exhibitions, adding some pheasants like the peafowl.
With the combination of parrots and peafowl, why not go for a tropical rainforest aviary!
Let's set the area to 3,000 square meters for starters.
Since it's a tropical rainforest aviary, tropical trees such as fig trees, kapoks, chestnuts, palm trees, and tree ferns must be planted extensively.
A thick layer of fallen leaves would be spread on the forest floor, with an abundance of ferns and other forest ground cover plants to create the atmosphere of a tropical rainforest.
Besides these, there also needs to be towering giant trees found in the tropical rainforest, like tetrameles nudiflora!
Tetrameles nudiflora can reach heights of 25-45 meters, taller than most buildings! Their most distinctive feature is the tall and long buttress roots; standing in front of two-to-three-meter-high buttress roots is like facing a wall.
If such a giant tree was placed in the center of the bird park, and a Sky Bridge was built, people strolling under the lush canopy would feel like elves from fantasy novels living atop a world tree, with colorful macaws flying by, an exhilarating thought indeed.
For this walk-in enclosure, one important element that cannot be missing is water!
The flow of water brings more environmental stimuli. Placing water bodies in the bird enclosure not only provides birds with more opportunities to exhibit natural behaviors, such as drinking and bathing, but the sound of flowing water can also mask the noise generated by human environments, allowing both people and birds to relax more effectively.
Therefore, Fang Ye planned a waterfall along the edge, cascading down from a cliff and flowing through the pavilion into a lake, then recycling the water back to the waterfall with pumps.
He allocated a sandy area since sand is also necessary for birds, not only for sand baths and play, but sometimes birds consume sand to aid digestion.
With trees, waterfalls, lakes, and sandy land, the general environment was set, just a few details to work out.
First was the Sky Bridge he had just envisioned; the bird park should be a three-dimensional space where visitors can observe birds from below, or ascend the slope to the Sky Bridge and experience what it feels like to be at the same height as flying birds, with multiple viewing platforms along the way.
Then there are the plants. Regular trees are quite cheap, but a tropical rainforest environment is dense with trees and shrubs of various levels, which adds up to another 20,000. A tree like the world tree, the tetrameles nudiflora, is a special tree and costs 10,000 each.
Well, this is awkward.
Fang Ye scratched his head in frustration.
Checking the balance, there's only 43,000 green leaf coins available: arrival of the red pandas +25,000, red panda exhibit +10,000, a gift pack +9,000, system for perfecting the design -1,000.
The outstanding amount isn't just a trifle, and the final payment for the wolf exhibit hasn't been made yet. Once paid, the fresh green leaf coins will run out.
Previously, when there weren't many green leaf coins, the cheaper outdoor part of the wolf exhibit was constructed first to save time.
"System, you might as well sell me to see how many green leaf coins you can get."
"Ding, host attempted to sell itself. Attempt failed because the host is not an object."
Fang Ye wasn't discouraged by this; creating such a rich tropical aviary in reality would cost at least a couple of hundred million. Being able to build the zoo with green leaf coins is already an advantage, not to mention the system's fast and high-quality construction crew.
He saved the design, deciding to find a temporary transitional exhibit for the macaws.
Um... the old cage of the red fox, which is made of metal wire and has good lighting, can be modified for use.
Spread a layer of sand bedding on the ground, place a few rocks, set up some wooden perches, and dangle ropes of various thickness from the cage top to act as hemp rope bridges.
Fixed perches in pet birdcages train strength but are not very practical, whereas these hanging ropes are useful.
When birds perch on the swaying ropes, the experience simulates that of standing on tree branches in nature, which is good for their balance and gripping strength.
The varying thickness is important because if they grip perches of the same diameter all the time, the pressure is constant at a few points while the rest relaxes. Over time, this can lead to diseases on the footpads, much like how writers get tendinitis from typing too much.
Although the cage is only a temporary solution, we can't let the health of the macaws suffer.
In addition, the ropes placed high up can help minimize the pressure from the gaze of visitors.
Hanging a tire for them to play with as a swing, and inserting some leafy twigs in the crannies of the rocks and perches daily for the macaws to peck at, can also provide some shelter.
Can't afford to give you a five-star luxury hotel, but a quaint local dwelling is doable.