[3] The Bird Park was meant to be an enticement to visit the island generally and did not produce any revenue.

[4] The steel girders from the original dance hall—the one that was replaced by the Catalina Casino—were reused in the construction of the Bird Park aviary in 1928.

[6] Circa 1934, Out West magazine reported that golden and ring-neck pheasants that had "been liberated" from the Bird Park were adapting well to canyons of the island.

[8] Lewis also designed the park, supervised construction, selected the exhibits,[9] and trained the talking mynahs.

[10] Les Mobley was superintendent in 1951 when the bird park successfully hatched and displayed three baby emus.