Jardín del Papagayo - Zoo de Aves

Jardin del Papagayo near Penyiscola on the Castellon coast calls itself an animal sanctuary rather than a zoo, built around parrots kept as ambassadors for biodiversity and handled close up by visitors. Its collection runs to macaws - hyacinth, blue-and-yellow and red-and-green - six cockatoo species including salmon-crested and Major Mitchell's, grey parrots, eclectus and Moluccan king parrots, lorikeets and conures, alongside three hornbill species, a blue-winged kookaburra, a snowy owl, American flamingos, a toco toucan, and mammals and reptiles including capybaras, ring-tailed lemurs, an ocelot, red kangaroos, white wallabies and an Aldabra giant tortoise. The park also runs adventure circuits at several difficulty levels.