Labuan Bird Park

What to See & Do

The park is organised around several walk-in aviaries, garden trails, and support facilities. A typical visit takes one to one and a half hours, though birdwatchers and photographers often stay longer.

Walk-In Aviaries

The heart of the park experience. Several large netted enclosures allow visitors to walk among the birds rather than viewing them from outside cages. Hornbills perch on overhead branches, parrots chatter from feeding stations, and smaller species flit through the undergrowth at ankle height. The immersive format means you're sharing space with the birds — and they've grown accustomed to human presence, which means they don't scatter when you approach. For children, the experience of standing inside an aviary while a parrot lands on a nearby perch is genuinely magical.

Bird Feeding Experience

Feeding sessions allow visitors — especially younger ones — to offer food to selected species under staff guidance. This is one of the park's most popular features and a highlight for families. The interaction is supervised to ensure both visitor safety and bird welfare. Ask at the entrance for feeding times, which vary by day.

Garden Trails

Paved walking trails wind through the park's landscaped gardens, connecting the aviaries and providing shaded stretches for a leisurely walk. The gardens feature tropical plantings — palms, flowering shrubs, ferns — and are well-maintained. Benches at intervals make good rest spots and photography positions.

Traditional Games Area

Near the park entrance, a traditional games area features Malay and Bornean games that provide a cultural touch to the visit. It's a nice addition for families and a reminder that the park sits within a broader cultural landscape.

Bird Species

The park houses a diverse collection of tropical and Bornean bird species. While the exact roster changes as conservation and rehabilitation programs develop, visitors can expect to encounter several major groups.

Hornbills are among the park's most impressive residents — large, charismatic birds with distinctive casque-topped bills that are culturally significant across Borneo. Several hornbill species are represented, and their size and presence make them impossible to miss.

Parrots and cockatoos provide the park's most vocal soundtrack. Colourful and social, they're often the birds that children respond to most enthusiastically, especially during feeding sessions. Several species of lories, lorikeets, and cockatoos are housed in the aviaries.

Eagles and raptors represent the predatory end of the bird world. These are typically housed in separate enclosures due to their hunting instincts, but viewing access is good and they're impressive subjects for photography.

Smaller species — kingfishers, starlings, mynahs, doves, and various passerines — round out the collection. These are often the most active birds in the aviaries and the most interesting to watch for their behaviour. The park also serves as a monitoring station for migratory birds that pass through Labuan during seasonal flyway movements.

Conservation & Rehabilitation

The Bird Park serves conservation purposes beyond its visitor function. An on-site rehabilitation centre treats injured and confiscated birds, with the goal of returning those capable of survival to the wild. This is particularly important for species affected by the illegal pet trade — a persistent issue across Southeast Asia.

Conservation breeding programs focus on endangered and vulnerable species, contributing to broader regional efforts to maintain genetically viable populations. The park also functions as a migratory bird monitoring station, tracking species that pass through Labuan's airspace during seasonal migrations along the East Asian-Australasian Flyway — one of the world's major bird migration routes.

The park recently received a RM1 million upgrade allocation earmarked for facilities improvement and expansion of its conservation capacity. This investment signals a commitment to developing the Bird Park from a pleasant visitor attraction into a more significant conservation facility — a transformation that benefits both the birds and the visitor experience.

Opening Hours, Tickets & Getting There

Photography Tips

The Bird Park offers excellent photography opportunities thanks to the walk-in aviary format — you're close to the birds, and they're accustomed to human presence. Here's how to make the most of it.

Half-Day Northern Labuan Tour

The Bird Park sits in a cluster of attractions on Labuan's northern peninsula. Combining them creates a satisfying half-day itinerary that covers nature, mystery, and beachside relaxation.