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SINGAPORE: Jurong Bird Park will celebrate its 50th anniversary with a one-year celebration that will include adopting its original 1971 entry price of S $ 2.50, Wildlife Reserves Singapore (WRS) said on Monday (December 28).
Tickets to the park are generally priced from S $ 15 to S $ 32, but will only cost S $ 2.50, as it was when the park was established, for local residents for the entire month of January next year.
Enter the egg-shaped portal “Memories of Jurong Bird Park” and observe the best moments of the park. Visitors can submit their own Jurong Bird Park souvenirs with # JBP50 on social media for a chance to be featured on the portal. (Image: Singapore Wildlife Reserves)
As part of the celebrations, an egg-shaped “portal” will be installed on the Penguin Coast, where visitors can see and hear highlights of the park’s 50-year history.
Photography spots will also be set up around the park to show how it has progressed, as well as to offer a glimpse into the park’s future home in Mandai.
Here they can take photos of historic moments in the park’s history, such as the early days of its operation and the visit of Queen Elizabeth II and the Duke of Edinburgh to the Waterfall Aviary in 1972.
Witness how Jurong Bird Park has evolved and get a glimpse of what the future holds at Past-Present-Future photo spots that change depending on the angle they are viewed. (Image: Singapore Wildlife Reserves)
Other features to commemorate the attraction’s Golden Jubilee include special editions of the Jurong Bird Park shows, featuring appearances by pioneering birds such as Big John, the sulfur-crested cockatoo at the High Flyers Show. Big John is over 50 years old and the oldest cockatoo in the park.
Visitors can also “symbolically foster” the iconic flamingos at Jurong Bird Park with a contribution of S $ 50 through the Foster a Flamingo program. Each contribution comes with an electronic certificate and a coupon for a flamingo keychain.
All contributions will go towards animal care, research and education programs in WRS parks and will support conservation projects.
Jurong Bird Park’s oldest cockatoo, Big John, is older than the park itself as he was already an adult when the park first opened in 1971. (Photo: Wildlife Reserves Singapore)
Visitors can also take home a limited-edition figure depicting an animal presenter with a scarlet macaw, made in collaboration with Precious Moments to celebrate the park’s 50th anniversary.
Jurong Bird Park collaborated with Precious Moments to create a limited edition commemorative figure depicting an animal presenter displaying a scarlet macaw. (Image: Singapore Wildlife Reserves)
Admission tickets are available online at www.birdpark.com.sg/jbp50. Additional charges apply for closed aviaries and shows.
Pre-booking is mandatory to facilitate crowd management and safe distancing amid the COVID-19 pandemic, WRS said.
Jurong Bird Park has welcomed 30 million Singaporean and international visitors since its opening, WRS said.
