Events such as egg and spoon races, egg painting, musical eggs and egg bowling will be happening throughout the day. In addition to all this there will be keeper talks and educational sessions introducing the different types of egg laying animals on the zoo from snakes to ostriches to chickens!

For centuries, eggs have played a major role in feeding families around the globe. World Egg Day provides a unique opportunity to help raise awareness of the benefits of eggs and is celebrated in countries all around the world. Visitors will also be able to meet the newest addition to Noah's Ark, Bertie the Barn Owl. Berty, who weights just 10 ounces. He will eventually join the European Eagle owl in the daily birds of prey display.

Notes:

1. As a nation, we eat nearly 10 billion eggs a year; that's 26 million every day, which placed end to end would reach from the earth to the moon.
2. Boiled eggs are the most popular way to eat eggs in Britain, followed by scrambled and fried.
3. People have decorated and given eggs to each other in the springtime for hundreds of years, as a symbol of the new life which grows in the spring.
4. 4. Noah's Ark Zoo Farm attracts over 100,000 visitors each year and can be found just 6 miles outside of Bristol, towards Clevedon. Started in 1998, animals include giraffe, zebras, rhinos, tapirs, gibbons, emus, wallabies, camels and 100 other types. As well as the longest hedge maze in the world visitors can enjoy huge indoor and outdoor adventure playgrounds.