A photo gallery of the small creatures and flora at Zoo Miami, which used to be Miami Metro Zoo. Photos taken December 18, 2010 using a Sony Cybershot HD camera, though you can't tell with the pdf.

1. Zoo Miami Pictures; Enjoy! . The zoo is HUGE,
so no mammals, just birds and other small
creatures and of course, plants…
Ruddy duck; male

2. Caribbean flamingo habitat and gardens.
Not a lot of cages at this zoo. Sooo pretty.

3. White Ibis. Not part of the exhibit, a
Florida native…

4. Common grackle, another native… This
one nearly attacked me!

5. Caribbean Flamingos, native to the West
coast of FL…

6. Close-up white ibis…

7. Other side of Flamingo habitat

8. Christmas tree.
They have Holiday
décor throughout
the Zoo. At night
they have lights.
Another day. Just
renewed my
membership. I like
zoos. 

9. At the Wings of Asia exhibiy (An aviary) …
Bedofia Geayi… too cool, right?

10. Yellow-wattled wader

11. Mandarin Duck

12. Labeotropheus trewavasae “Zimbawe”. They
shouldn’t have Labs in an Asian exhibit, but it’s
cool to see labs outside…

13. Little brown heron

14. No clue what bird… There are so many, I lost
track…

15. No clue…

16. Bleeding heart dove

17. No clue, but it had a big mouth! Literally and it
also made a lot of noise…

18. Beautiful…

19. More color…

20. Oriental Pheasant

21. He was sooo hard
to photograph,
jittery little guy.
Obsessed with the
window.

22. Giant Hornbill; Zoo
Miami has a
nesting pair. 

23. More of the Rainbowfish and looks like
mollies! Gotta have OM47 confirm for me…

24. Still in Asia, but not
in the Aviary, a stork
of some type…

25. Some of the landscaping in Asia

26. In the Asian River Life exhibit now.
Damoiselle crane

27. Big ol’ Tin Foil barbs!!! Bigger than
T1KARMANN’s

29. Walking around
Aisa, lovely
flowers. And guess
what I saw…

30. A wild humming bird, center of picture…

31. Perched at a tree, center…

32. What the humming
bird was enjoying.

33. In the South American Amazon exhibit… A
Tanager…

34. Giant humming bird… Really that’s the name…

35. Reptile house at the Amazon exhibit…
poisonous

36. Tree frogs

37. More trumpet-shaped
flowers. Lots of
humming birds
buzzing about and
these plants are not in
the exhibit proper,
just on the zoo
grounds. Told you, a
very different zoo.

38. A beautiful fern…

39. Landscaping at the Amazon… Beautiful
exhibit

40. One of the flower species…

41. You can see that flower in this landscape…

42. Giant pacu, I think… Easy over 2ft!

43. Arowana, over 3ft!

44. I know this is a cichlid but it’s mature, so I
can’t tell??? Between 12 & 16” long…

45. Poison dart frogs

46. Another kind of poison dart frog…

47. Freshwater stingray…

48. Toucan

49. Magpie jay

50. The lake outside of the Amazon exhibit…
with White pelicans… wild birds…

51. Common egret…
Another native

52. Koi, can I put this in my 10g???
LOLOLOL

53. White pelican close-up

54. Leaving the Amazon, wild roses…

55. More wild roses…

56. Flower growing on a vine…

57. Final scape shot… Lovely zoo, don’t
you think?