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Very nice to hear the Collared Grosbeak is back onshow after several years; the last time it was on-display was prior to the row of aviaries next to the Sunken Garden being closed to the public. That said, given the age of the individual I doubt this will be the case for long.

This also raises another question; if the Cabot's Tragopan is now in *those* aviaries, is the aviary next to the Bush Dogs which has latterly contained this individual now empty?
 
ShonenJake13 said:
Songbird aviaries between Spirit of the Jaguar and the chimps have been filled.

FROM LEFT TO RIGHT

AVIARY 1
Collared partridge
Blue-crowned laughingthrush
Cabot's tragopan
Grey-cheeked liocichla

AVIARY 2
Grey-winged blackbird
Red-tailed laughingthrush

AVIARY 3
Collared grosbeak
Reeves' pheasant

AVIARY 4
Temminck's tragopan


The blackbirds are a different pair to the ones outside Tropical Realm.
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Will have to make my next visit sooner rather than later to see these stocked now. :D
 
Reeves' Pheasant,a nice addition, and not seen at Chester since 1965 (as far as I know). Collared partridge and collared grosbeak are new on show.
 
bongorob said:
They have more than one Cabot's tragopan TLD. Perhaps the Rainbow aviaries house a breeding pair.
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Oh! Just as I was getting my hopes up. If they had rehoused the tragopan and they could find somewhere for the pies, they could finally demolish the Nissen hut abomination which has been the zoo's biggest eyesore for at least 50 years.
 
gentle lemur said:
Oh! Just as I was getting my hopes up. If they had rehoused the tragopan and they could find somewhere for the pies, they could finally demolish the Nissen hut abomination which has been the zoo's biggest eyesore for at least 50 years.
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I love that old gibbon cage. ;)

The magpies moved quite some time ago, some into the aviary at the entrance to the elephants and another individual into the owl aviaries.
 
ShonenJake13 said:
Songbird aviaries between Spirit of the Jaguar and the chimps have been filled.

FROM LEFT TO RIGHT

AVIARY 1
Collared partridge
Blue-crowned laughingthrush
Cabot's tragopan
Grey-cheeked liocichla

AVIARY 2
Grey-winged blackbird
Red-tailed laughingthrush

AVIARY 3
Collared grosbeak
Reeves' pheasant

AVIARY 4
Temminck's tragopan


The blackbirds are a different pair to the ones outside Tropical Realm.
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So the Temminck's Tragopan have not left just goes to show just because we haven't seen a species doesn't mean its not still at the zoo!!
 
TeaLovingDave said:
This also raises another question; if the Cabot's Tragopan is now in *those* aviaries, is the aviary next to the Bush Dogs which has latterly contained this individual now empty?
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Although Cabot's Tragopan is still listed, it still might be in there. Although we have seen a Red-billed Blue Magpie in there.
 
Demolish the nissan hut GentleLemur. Wash your mouth out. :D

I think the magpies GentleLemur means are the Javan Green Magpies.

The "Nissan" hut aviary has housed many species.

Müller's gibbon
lar gibbon
siberian lynx
hyacinth macaw
blue and yellow macaw
great hornbill
kea
red-billed magpie
bare-faced curassow
 
bongorob said:
Demolish the nissan hut GentleLemur. Wash your mouth out. :D

I think the magpies GentleLemur means are the Javan Green Magpies.
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I am entitled to my opinion - which I have held for many many years (and mentioned on ZooChat quite a few times too :rolleyes:).
I meant the occipital blue pies (or red-billed blue magpies if you prefer the trendy modern name, probably devised by people who couldn't spell 'occipital'); there was at least one in that aviary with the old male Cabot's tragopan last time I looked in there.
Putting the Javan green magpies in that aviary would be like asking Sir Ben Ainslie to win the America's Cup in HMS Victory.
 
Just got back from a long and amazing day at the zoo with MagpieGoose and pocket! Other than the big news that the new songbird aviaries have been filled, here's what else was seen:

- Kitani the rhino looks pregnant
- Wattled cranes are back in their aviary
- Scimitar-horned oryx are gone
- New lower vertebrate cases in the Tripa Research Station, with mostly the same species that have been kept in the middle one up until now
- Signage up for Mao-Son frogs and Borneo eared frogs together with the green crested lizards and mountain horned dragons
- Sun skink signage up outside their viv at the end
- Painted batagurs engaging in chasing behaviour (leadup to mating?)
- Boris is back!! :D finally seen him after forever! This of course means that Vila is integrated into the group, and I can confirm this as I saw her in with the rest today :) she looked at ease.
- Two veeeeery pregnant giraffes from the look of things!! Orla and Dagma I think.
- Kotsovato cichlid in the aquarium in Secret World of the Okapi.
- Sarikei is separate from the rest of the orangs and the gibbons. Possibly to do with the pregnancy announced on Secret Life?
- Golden silk weaver and chameleon forest dragon onshow in RORA.
- Jaguars still in together.
- Parson's chameleon moved from his former viv by the tuataras to the one formerly housing green crested lizard and Indochinese box turtle (his old one is empty)
- Elephantnose fish and butterfly barb in the aquarium.
- Signage up showing Malawi squeaker and Poll's upside down catfish in with the pinstriped damba
- Pipefish in with the halfbeaks

And, possibly most excitingly, myself and MG saw (the silhouette of) and heard a Javan green magpie in an offshow aviary :)
 
TeaLovingDave said:
1) Are you sure?
2) Where? :p
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1. Certain. Looked up the calls of one on YouTube and was making the same calls, silhouette matched the description, and when it flew back indoors I saw it was light green in colour.
2. Near the giant otters in an offshow aviary.

Me and MagpieGoose were saying we might be the first regularly active zoochatters to have seen the Chester ones :p
 
Visited the zoo today, couple things notice:
-The Chameleon Forest Dragons are now on show in the Black-Breasted Turtle enclosure in RORA
-Golden Silk Spider are now on show in RORA
-The new Asian Bird aviaries re very good and a vast improvement from the Rainbow aviaries. I said before I came round the corner I hoped there were some Reeves Pheasant and was very happy with my prediction :)
-New signs have been put up in the Tropical Realm including one on the Tuatara birth. A new exhibit is being built between the Radiated Tortoise and Dart Frog exhibits. The Parsons Chameleon have moved to the Green Crested Lizard exhibit with the latter being removed, much better for the Chameleons. Signage for Yellow-faced Mynah.
-Himalayan Monal are now on show in the Grey-Winged Blackbird outside the Tropical Realm
-The Wattled Crane are back in aviaries by the Rhinos. The Baer's Pochard and White-Winged Duck have replaced them in the Wetlands aviary
-The zoo have added new kids activities around the zoo part of the new PLAY scheme including 'sit like a gibbon' and a 'skip lane' which i had a go at.
-Lake Malawi Squeaker and Poll's Upsidedown Catfish are now in with the Pinstripe Damba
-Two new insect bits have been added to the Orangutan viewing area. Species saw were Malaysian Jungle Nymph and Dead-Leaf Mantis
-All 19 chimps are finally all together and hopefully living peacefully.
 
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ShonenJake13 said:
1. Certain. Looked up the calls of one on YouTube and was making the same calls, silhouette matched the description, and when it flew back indoors I saw it was light green in colour.
2. Near the giant otters in an offshow aviary.

Me and MagpieGoose were saying we might be the first regularly active zoochatters to have seen the Chester ones :p
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We are definitely sure they are the Javan Green Magpie. Hard to get a photo due to it being covered in green netting but you could still see it. Videos on YouTube of the ones at Chester in a very similar enclosure to the one me and ShonenJake13 saw it in
 
MagpieGoose said:
-Signage for Yellow-faced Mynah.
-Himalayan Monal are now on show in the Grey-Winged Blackbird outside the Tropical Realm
-The Wattled Crane are back in aviaries by the Rhinos. The Baer's Pochard and White-Winged Duck have replaced them in the Wetlands aviary
-All 19 chimps are finally all together and hopefully living peacefully.
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1. Yellow-faced myna seems to have disappeared yeah, signage gone in Tropical Realm and not in Monsoon Forest of course
2. Forgot to mention that :)
3. He means the almost adult white-faced wood ducklings, the adults are still in Tropical Realm
4. Now let's hope that Twycross can pull it off too and we'll have a third group of 19 in the UK (along with the Chester group and Hananya's at Monkey World)
 
Back in February, I went to the rhino talk & keeper explained that Kitani had been seen accepting the bull persume it was Magadi
 
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