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Parrot Jungle and Gardens

This Miami institution will take flight from its current location in South Miami in the fall of 2002 and head north in the winter of 2003 to a new $46 million home on Watson Island, along the MacArthur Causeway near Miami Beach. While the island will double as a protected bird sanctuary, the jungle's soon-to-be former digs in the heart of South Miami in a circa-1900 coral rock structure are a lot more charming and kitschier. The new 18.6-acre park will feature an Everglades exhibit, a petting zoo, and several theaters, jungle trails, and aviaries. Watch your heads because flying above are hundreds of parrots, macaws, peacocks, cockatoos, and flamingos. Continuous shows star roller-skating cockatoos, card-playing macaws, and numerous stunt-happy parrots. There are also tortoises, iguanas, and a rare albino alligator on exhibit. The park's website sometimes offers downloadable discount coupons, so if you have Internet access, take a look before you visit.

Until the move: 11000 SW 57th Ave.Phone: 305/666-7834.Open: Daily 9:30am-6pm. Cafe opens at 8am.Admission $15.95 adults, $13.95 seniors, $10.95 children 3-10.Take U.S. 1 south and turn left at SW 57th Ave., or exit Kendall Dr. from the Florida Turnpike and turn right on SW 57th Ave.After the move: 1111 Parrot Jungle Trail, Watson Island (on the north side of MacArthur Causeway/I-395); 305/372-3822.


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