Americas Bird Display

In the Americas section of the Toronto Zoo, there is a relatively small room for birds to openly fly around. The room was trying to emulate a tropical rainforest coast in the Americas.
Here are some pictures:

Blue-crowned motmot

Scarlet ibis

Piping guan

Scarlet ibis

Scarlet ibis

The room was extremely humid and quite warm, which is similar to how it is in an actual rainforest. The high humidity is crucial for laying eggs, to ensure the eggs from not drying out during the incubation period. There were many different types of plants present in the room, which is similar to rainforests; however, comparatively, the diversity of plants in the room was not nearly as diverse as in an actual rainforest. The most notable difference between the room and a rainforest, is obviously the size. The Amazon rainforest has an area of 5,500,500km^2, with trees reaching heights of 90meters. Compared to that, the bird display is miniscule. The birds clearly missing out on the massive space to fly around and live in by living in the zoo. Furthermore, the birds are all occupying the higher branches and ledges of the display, which gives the impression they would like to go higher. To conclude, the room is an okay representation of a tropical rainforest; the temperature and humidity is accurate, the display contains a variety of plants, but it can't do justice to the sheer size of a rainforest.