Park Field Keeper & Bird Keeper Photo Blog
Posted at 4:26 pm March 11, 2008 by Kelsey
Michele Gaffney, a Wild Animal Park field keeper, tells the Zoo InternQuest interns about her day on the job as they drive through the Heart of Africa in a field keeper truck.
Dana, a member of the InternQuest careers team, feeds Indian rhinos their favorite snack: big, crunchy apples!
A giraffe munches on a tasty acacia leaf fed to it out of the back of the keeper truck by the Zoo interns. This is not the luxury Photo Caravan tour; we were sitting on straw bales!
At the San Diego Zoo, a red-crowned crane was one of the many resplendent birds that the Zoo InternQuest interns interacted with on our tour de birds.
Kristi Bruce explains how the birds at the African Bird Pond are trained to get their food at a certain place. This is for their safety and to keep the wild birds that hang around from getting the food of the birds that actually belong in the exhibit.
Amelia Suarez picks up a giant stick whose height in the air confuses and startles the wild, native birds that are not part of the Zoo’s collection. No birds are harmed with the giant stick!
This friendly bowerbird in Owen’s Rain Forest Aviary curiously examines the Zoo InternQuest interns as the group offers meal worms to it.
A male Argus pheasant joins the interns as they learn about all different types of Asian birds!
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