Indonesian Breeding Centre for Endangered Bird Species

vogelcommando

vogelcommando

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Any Zoochatters ever heared - or maybe even visited - the Indonesian Breeding Centre for Endangered Bird Species in Sukabumi ?
It was ( is? ) the only place in the world ( as far as I know ) which has kept the Hoogerwerf's pheasant.
Would like to know if this pheasant-species is still kept there and if they have maybe even bred it.
Would also be intresting to know which other bird-species are kept and bred at this place !
 
Not quite sure, the webpage said it's about 2 hours from Sukabumi - the town in which the Indonesian Breeding Centre for Endangered Bird Species should be. Also the fact that this one is keeping next to the birds also several mammal-species let me believe the one I'm looking for is another one...
Even so, also this one looks great and is doing a lot of good work ! Thank you for the link !
 
I think it is probably the same place. Sukabumi is the name of both the town and the district as a whole. The town of Sukabumi is the nearest one to Cikananga.

Rezit Sozer who set up Cikananga was breeding Bornean peacock-pheasants there, so it seems likely to be the same place.

It certainly seems like it would be interesting to visit, especially to see Javan warty pigs!
 
Chlidonias said:
I think it is probably the same place. Sukabumi is the name of both the town and the district as a whole. The town of Sukabumi is the nearest one to Cikananga.

Rezit Sozer who set up Cikananga was breeding Bornean peacock-pheasants there, so it seems likely to be the same place.

It certainly seems like it would be interesting to visit, especially to see Javan warty pigs!
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The site had its first breeding of pure-bred Javan warty pigs in the year!
This species is even rarer than Phil. Visayan warties!!!

Also they maintain a bird breeding center for endangered Javan and other island bird species. Some involvement by EAZA zoos too!
 
VC, I was in a breeding centre in the far north of Thailand recently, they didn't have any Hoogerwerf's but they had about 18 other pheasant species.
 
Jackwow said:
VC, I was in a breeding centre in the far north of Thailand recently, they didn't have any Hoogerwerf's but they had about 18 other pheasant species.
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is that the one up past Chiang Mai, with the green peafowl living in the surrounding area?
 
the French Wikipedia page for Salvadori's pheasant says that in 1999 Rezit Sozer found three pairs of Hoogerwerf's pheasants in a bird market in Medan. Four died and became museum skins, but the surviving pair were kept in an aviary at Sukabumi.

So I would say it is a certainty that the facility at Cikananga is the one vogelcommando is enquiring about.
 
Chlidonias said:
is that the one up past Chiang Mai, with the green peafowl living in the surrounding area?
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It's a place called Doi Tung Wildlife Breeding Centre. It is up past Chiang Mai, in fact it's up past Chiang Rai, very close to the Burmese border. Don't know about the green peafowl although they did have them caged. I have opened a gallery but haven't posted anything just yet.
 
Jackwow said:
It's a place called Doi Tung Wildlife Breeding Centre. It is up past Chiang Mai, in fact it's up past Chiang Rai, very close to the Burmese border. Don't know about the green peafowl although they did have them caged. I have opened a gallery but haven't posted anything just yet.
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oh, no I was thinking of Huay Hong Krai
 
This is the place where the green magpies and laughing thrushes came from. The erstwhile curator is now at Taman Safari Bogor and has enabled the TSI to expand its collection with Javan warty pigs as well as various endangered Javan bird species. From TSI several species of endangered Javan birds have been redistributed to Singapore and European zoos.
 
Kifaru Bwana said:
This is the place where the green magpies and laughing thrushes came from. The erstwhile curator is now at Taman Safari Bogor and has enabled the TSI to expand its collection with Javan warty pigs as well as various endangered Javan bird species. From TSI several species of endangered Javan birds have been redistributed to Singapore and European zoos.
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Oh really - a shame I missed the pigs in Bogor in June - do you happen to know when they went?
 
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