. Some how it missed all of
>>the Mallard volunteers at the other ponds on the grounds.
>
>Mike, I knew you had a great docent program going at the zoo, but I had no
>idea you had *birds* as volunteers!
>
Dennis,

We've no shortage of avian volunteers, so many so that we have a fulltime AV
coordinator also known as the "pest control officer" The number of
freeloading Mallards is sufficient enough to impact the food budget in the
waterfowl exhibits. We've even put Mallard ID graphics in the Asian
Waterfowl exhibit because there are so many of them. Crows, Gulls, House
Sparrows and Canada Geese round out our rogue's gallery.

My favorite, nonpest, AV's are the Red-winged Blackbirds that volunteer to
nest in the Marsh Exhibit, the GBH that likes to visit the lion moat in the
Savanna and all the migrants that find the Family Farm stream area
hospitible each Spring.

Mike
Mike Waller
Manager of Operations
Woodland Park Zoo
5500 Phinney Avenue N.
Seattle, WA 98103
ph: (206)684-4057
fax:(206)684-4817
e-mail: mwaller at wolfenet.com