Wear your favorite family-friendly costume and enjoy fourteen nights of trick-or-treating, rides and games during Wells Fargo Boo at the Zoo. Make your way through safe candy villages and game zones, organized by local non-profit organizations and child-centered businesses. Animal exhibits will be closed for Boo at the Zoo. The Junior League of Birmingham Hugh Kaul Children’s Zoo Barn with be open. The Zoo will close at 4 p.m. on each day of Boo at the Zoo.

What: 14 nights of special rides, fun and games

-New this Year: Children's Pony Rides*

-Scarousel*

-Ghoul School at Grandma's Back Porch

-Eerie Express*

-Glow in the Dark Dot Maze

-"Monster Mash" Dance Party

-Gruesome Golf*

-Halloween-themed Wildlife Show

-Take advantage of unlimited attraction wristband for $12

-Games and prizes

-Animals nightly in the barn

When: October 5–7, 12–14, 21, 25, 28 and 31 (5pm–9pm)

BIRMINGHAM, AL – The Birmingham Zoo is celebrating its first-ever hatching of a kori bustard chick.

This is a significant birth because the kori bustard is a threatened species. With the help of a state-of-the-art Grumbach incubator courtesy of the Kori Bustard Species Survival Plan (SSP), the Zoo is one of ten Association of Zoos and Aquariums (AZA) accredited institutions in North America to successfully hatch a kori bustard in the last twenty years.

The mission of the SSP is to cooperatively manage specific, and typically threatened or endangered, species populations within AZA accredited facilities.

The chick, a male named Kobu, continues to thrive and is quickly growing. He currently weighs approximately 6.1 pounds and stands at around 2.5 feet tall. An adult male kori bustard typically weighs 40 pounds and reaches a height of approximately 3.5 feet. In human care, kori bustards eat a pelleted diet consisting of fruit, vegetables and meat.