Английская Википедия:Catalina Bird Park
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Catalina Bird Park, or Wrigley Bird Park, was a 20th-century collection of exotic birds and game fowl kept on Santa Catalina Island, California under the sponsorship of the island's owner William Wrigley Jr.[1] The Bird Park was located in Avalon Canyon along the Avalon municipal boundary.[2]
History
The Bird Park opened in approximately 1926.[3] The Bird Park was meant to be an enticement to visit the island generally and did not produce any revenue.[4] The steel girders from the original dance hall—the one that was replaced by the Catalina Casino—were reused in the construction of the Bird Park aviary in 1928.[4] The resulting cage was Шаблон:Cvt in diameter and Шаблон:Cvt high.[2] Former President and Mrs. Calvin Coolidge paid a visit in 1930.[5] Circa 1931, the aviary was open to tourists, admission was free, and there were more than 5,000 individual birds in the collection.[6] Circa 1934, Out West magazine reported that golden and ring-neck pheasants that had "been liberated" from the Bird Park were adapting well to canyons of the island.[7]
The first supervisor of the aviary, which had a breeding program, was Edward Herbert Lewis.[8] Lewis also designed the park, supervised construction, selected the exhibits,[9] and trained the talking mynahs.[10] Les Mobley was superintendent in 1951 when the bird park successfully hatched and displayed three baby emus.[11] The Catalina macaw, a hybrid macaw which takes its name from the park and is now popular as a pet was first bred in captivity at Catalina Bird Park in 1940.[12] When the Catalina Bird Park aviary closed in 1966, the newly established Los Angeles Zoo purchased the remaining 650 birds for Шаблон:USD.[3]
The physical plant was described as being Moorish styled in design and spread over Шаблон:Cvt.[8] The Bird Park was decorated with Catalina art tiles including several "bird murals" of toucans, macaws, crested cranes, etc.[4] The tiled fountain from the Bird Park was moved to Avalon Plaza after the aviary was shut down.[4] The Bird Park was adjacent to the Catalina Island Golf Course.[13] Some of the bird park structures have been converted into subsidized housing.[14]
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