My Life With Chester…………….. I started going to bird shows about 4 years ago, and I saw some Swainson’s toucans there. A guy told me if I wanted to talk to a toucan expert, I should get in touch with Jerry Jennings. When I went to Emerald Forest Bird Gardens, I was blown away by…

Our Green Aracari, Bamboo, is doing great, as much of a delight as always. We’ve let her wings grow out and she loves to explore the house, has her favorite spots. She’s sitting next to me as I type this, on top of a basket by the kitchen window. We LOVE her so much! She’s…

We acquired our pair of Rainbow Billed Toucans(Ramphastos sulfuratus) Leonardo & Twitchy several years back from Emerald Forest Bird Gardens at first to possibly breed them in a backyard Aviary. Well things sort of changed, We ended up keeping them in the house and since then they have became part of our family. They have…

When we first brought Tilly home with us from Emerald Forest, it was almost as big an event as was bringing home my now ten-year-old daughter from the hospital for the first time. And now, Tilly has been an important member of our family for more than three years. She is a delight, in every…

I have to tell you how thrilled we are with our Green Aracari, Olive. She is everything we’ve dreamed of in a pet bird: beautiful, quiet, funny and loving towards everyone. She was amazing from the minute we picked her up in the airport: she was chatting and eating on the way home in the…

At night as showroom lights dim at the tropical island themed Larry St. John & Co., Tiki Toucan curiously stretches his soft white neck side to side, raises his bright orange beak, hops to the highest corner branch, props up his cute red tail, shuts his majestic blue eyes between tuxedo black feathers at his…

This is the story of how a relatively normal couple from Orlando, FL was welcomed into Emerald Forest Bird Gardens and left there with a new goal in life. We were invited to EFBG by Jerry during a conference in Ocala, FL in January, 2009. We took Jerry up on the invitation and headed out there…