Rare Bird Farm - Miami, Florida

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Rare Bird Farm

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Miami, Florida

Spectacular view of Miami's Skyline, with the network of expressways and freeways in the foreground of the pture.  Miami, once an Indian Trading Post on Biscayne Bay at the mouth of the Miami River with a population of around 400, was incorporated inta a village in 1896.  In less than a century it has expanded rapidly and greater Miami now has a population of 1 1/2 million, and is known as the gateway to the Americas.

Among the hundreds of beautiful birds roaming free at Miami's Rare Bird Farm are Flamingos that will eat from your hand - Ostriches 10 feet tall, Parrots that pose on your shoulder etc.  Ten miles south on U.S. No. 1.

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Florida is a delighfully sunny place, fashioned by nature in her happiest mood, endowed with super fine gifts of climate, beauty and salt-ladened health-giving winds and smiling skies.

Bleeding Heart Doves at the Rare Bird Farm, 10 miles south of Miami.

Miami's Rare Bird Farm - Miami, Florida

Miami’s Rare Bird Farm is located in Kendall, just below South Miami on U.S. #1.  Take your camera for there are literally hundreds of feathered creatures in a setting of landscaped gardens, pools and fruit groves.  Flamingos will eat from your hand!  Parrots will pose on your shoulder, Ostriches 10 feet tall!  Monkeys on their private island!  Pet Deer, Bear, Peacocks etc. etc.

Miami’s Rare Bird Farm is located in Kendall, just below South Miami on U.S. #1.  Take your camera for there are literally hundreds of feathered creatures in a setting of landscaped gardens, pools and fruit groves.  Flamingos will eat from your hand!  Parrots will pose on your shoulder, Ostriches 10 feet tall!  Monkeys on their private island!  Pet Deer, Bear, Peacocks etc. etc.

Rare Bird Farm - Miami, Florida

The Coral Flamingo is one of nature’s greatest combination of grace and beauty, and at the Rare Bird Farm, just south of Miami, Florida, they may be seen and photographed at their best.  These birds have become so tame that one can get within a few feet of them.  Here, amid natural surroundings, one would think they were somewhere on Great Abaco or Andros Islands, in the Bahamas, their native habitat.

Flamingos feeding in pool at Rare Bird Farm, 10 miles south of Miami.  For over 100 years rumors have persisted that flamingos have at some time bred in Florida.  The spring of 1939 definitely marked the first time, within the knowledge of man, that the flamingo hatched and reared its young on the North American mainland.  It feeds, in the wild state, upon small crustaceans and mollucs, which it obtains by loosening the mud below the water with a rapid stamping motion of the feet and sifting the muddy water through the sieve-like structure provided in its bill.

African Crown Crane at Miami’s Rare Bird Farm U.S. #1 south of Miami.