Different Forms of “Catch Alls”

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Camelot Macaws, Blue Throated Macaw

Have you ever noticed that most theme parks or any animal parks in general, don’t really have catch alls? I’ve been to many that have flaps of plastic material like a meat house has… and others that have hanging chains so that customers can walk through easily but birds can’t get out. Usually you see these types of things in walk in aviaries.

Because we couldn’t really make a catch all very easily like we have at our aviaries at home, we decided to do one of these cool inventions instead. I thought I’d pass along the idea for those of you in similar situations.

The most ideal situation is to have both a catch all and one of these as well. But that isn’t always feasible for everyone.

The red and black things all over the aviary is super strength velcro to hold pieces together where the birds might be able to get out (and by the way, this aviary is only for our macaws as full time use and not our medium sized parrots). We used this as a temporary thing so that we could get our birds into the aviary right away, but not as a permanent fix. The permanent fix was aircraft cable. Something the birds can’t chew through. It’s pictured below.

This is 100 feet of chain, and we actually didn’t feel it was quite enough so we sent some crew out to get another 100 feet of this stuff so we could double it up. We also asked for some larger chain for the two sides where the gaps tend to be larger.

Camelot Macaws

The photo above was with the door open though for the photograph, and the birds already knew they couldn’t fly through the chain that was there. We might be able to get away with just this one layer, but two would make us feel very secure. The less gaps the better for these types of catches.

We also put larger chain around the opening door with a lock so that no one can get into the cage who isn’t supposed to.

I’m really looking forward to adding tons of hanging toys and ropes to the aviary at our next location! Off to order them!