World of Birds Wildlife Sanctuary and Monkey Park, Bird park and monkey sanctuary in Hout Bay, Cape Town, South Africa

World of Birds Wildlife Sanctuary and Monkey Park covers 4 hectares in Hout Bay, Cape Town, and holds about 3,000 animals of roughly 400 species, around 330 of them birds. Most birds are kept in more than 100 walk-through aviaries, so visitors pass among penguins, flamingos, parrots, hornbills and turacos without mesh between them. Mammals include baboons, marmosets, tamarins, meerkats and porcupines; reptiles include green iguanas, monitor lizards and tortoises.

World of Birds opened in Hout Bay as a bird sanctuary and grew into a park holding roughly 3,000 animals of about 400 species, some 330 of them birds. A breeding centre for threatened species and a rehabilitation unit for injured wild birds operate alongside the exhibits. By 2011 its bird collection ranked as the largest in Africa and third among bird-focused zoos worldwide.

Most birds are kept in more than 100 walk-through aviaries, so visitors meet them directly rather than through mesh or bars. The collection covers penguins, rheas, eagles, owls, pelicans, flamingos, parrots, hornbills, turacos and weavers, alongside baboons, marmosets, tamarins, meerkats and porcupines.

The park covers 4 hectares in Hout Bay and is reached from central Cape Town by tourist bus or minibus taxi. Paths run through more than 100 walk-through aviaries, so visitors pass directly among the birds rather than viewing them through mesh. The breeding center for threatened species and the rehabilitation unit for injured wild birds are part of the grounds.

World of Birds keeps about 330 bird species, the third-highest bird diversity of any zoo focused on birds, behind Weltvogelpark Walsrode, Birds of Eden, Kuala Lumpur Bird Park and Jurong Bird Park. More than 100 walk-through aviaries let visitors pass among the birds rather than view them through mesh. The park also runs a breeding centre for threatened species and a rehabilitation unit for injured wild birds.