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The current lioness has moved to London zoo and is being replaced by two lionesses from Cotswold WP.
 

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Following a visit yesterday:
* Pair of Laughing Thrushes now in left hand parrot aviary closest to tortoise lawn.
* Vietnamese Pheasant now resident in ex Snowy Owl aviary.
* Spectacled Owls moved into long flighted parrot aviary.
* Brookside walk through and owl aviaries nr Cassowary still empty or very sparse of inhabitants.
* New monkey heights boardwalk is finished and looks good.
* The electric fence surrounding elephant paddock was on - being tested - readiness for giraffe move finally?
* no shows - Wallaby, Coati, Lion, Maned Wolf.
* Old vertical greenhouse by Education building is being converted into a recycling station - practical hands-on education. There is a shed with stable door next to it?
 
TriUK said:
Following a visit yesterday:

* Old vertical greenhouse by Education building is being converted into a recycling station - practical hands-on education. There is a shed with stable door next to it?
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I wondered what was going on here. The shed is a bit of a mystery. No sign of the pig moving into the Ranch (as was intimated a while ago), and you have to wonder why he would want to when he has a large grassy paddock to himself?
 
To satisfy my own curiosity this week, I made a note of birds on show. The tropical and desert houses are closed, of course. I noted numbers where I could count them. Imagine turning left at the Entrance and making a roughly circular route round to the Brookside Aviary. (Not guaranteed 100% correct!)
Flamingo Lake
Chilean flamingo
Common shelduck
Baer's pochard
Red-crested pochard
White-faced whistling duck
Mandarin duck
Smew 0.1

Red-crowned crane 1.1

Marabou stork 1.1

Pelican Lake
Dalmatian pelican
Sarus crane (I hope there's still 1.1 as was the case before lockdown, but have only seen one)
Red-rested pochard
Black-necked swan 1
Greylag goose
Bar-headed goose
Marbled teal
Ringed teal
White-faced whistling duck

Hill behind the restaurant
Greater rhea 1
Hawaiian goose
Ruddy shelduck

Wattled crane 1.1

Vietnamese pheasant (in ex-snowy owl aviary)

Oriental white stork 1.1

Cottage Aviary
Ruff
Socorro dove
Azure-winged magpie
Black-necked stilt 1.1
Teal (marbled?)

Parrot aviary area
Ural owl
Spectacled owl
White-crested laughing thrush ( 4 in two aviaries)
Hyacinth macaw 0.1
Rothschild's peacock pheasant
Palawan peacock pheasant
Lady Amherst's pheasant
Citron-crested cockatoo
Speckled pigeon
Red-billed blue magpie 4
Brown-eared pheasant 1

Emu 1

Red-necked ostrich 0.1

East African crowned crane 2

Roseate spoonbill 5

ABC
Toco toucan (in 3 aviaries)
Great argus pheasant
Black hornbill (in 2 aviaries)
Secretary bird 1
Hamerkop
Scarlet ibis
Wrinkled hornbill
Crested screamer
Greater roadrunner 1
Brown kiwi (on screen) 1.0
Kakariki

Southern Cassowary 1.1

Brookside Aviary
Little egret
Sacred ibis
Speckled pigeon
Red-legged seriema 2

Free ranging Blue peafowl and Helmeted guineafowl
Chickens in the Ranch
 
Thanks Gigit.
Definitely a Hyacinth pair yesterday.
Add Eclectus parrots too.
I think there may be a Night Heron in with the Scarlet Ibis?
Although the bird collection has been significantly reduced (decimated?), on paper it’s still good, especially when you add the desert & tropical house residents. There are quite a few off show birds behind the Cottage aviaries and between the ABC & residential housing too.
 
TriUK said:
Thanks Gigit.
Definitely a Hyacinth pair yesterday.
Add Eclectus parrots too.
I think there may be a Night Heron in with the Scarlet Ibis?
Although the bird collection has been significantly reduced (decimated?), on paper it’s still good, especially when you add the desert & tropical house residents. There are quite a few off show birds behind the Cottage aviaries and between the ABC & residential housing too.
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That's good news about the Hyacinth macaws. I'd heard that the male had died, so maybe the female has a new partner? It's always hard to tell whether the birds are there or not as they can hide away. Let's hope, when we can get back inside them, that the Tropical and Desert Houses are bursting with birds!
 
TriUK said:
Thanks Gigit.
Definitely a Hyacinth pair yesterday.
Add Eclectus parrots too.
I think there may be a Night Heron in with the Scarlet Ibis?
Although the bird collection has been significantly reduced (decimated?), on paper it’s still good, especially when you add the desert & tropical house residents. There are quite a few off show birds behind the Cottage aviaries and between the ABC & residential housing too.
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I saw two Eclectus parrots and two lorikeets on a brief visit today. Also a return of the 'King Colombus' - as read out by two separate families in Monkey Heights. I know about silent letters, but not invisible ones (sorry, it wasn't a good day to be at the zoo).
 
Gigit said:
That's good news about the Hyacinth macaws. I'd heard that the male had died, so maybe the female has a new partner?
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A male was due to arrive from Paradise Park, but the move was delayed during lockdown. I expect that it has now taken place.
 
TriUK said:
The new Thrush pair in the far left hand parrot aviary are the zoos first Sumatran Laughing Thrushes. Source: Facebook PZ 5/5/21.
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I'm not sure Marketing have got that right - at least one elderly male Sumatran laughingthrush occupied the corner aviary in Reptile Tropics before the pair of White crested laughingthrush.

Just had a scroll through the gallery and there was at least one Garrulax bicolor on-display in 2017: Sumatran Laughingthrush - ZooChat. I wish the Marketing team would actually consult the zoo's records occasionally.
 
gentle lemur said:
A male was due to arrive from Paradise Park, but the move was delayed during lockdown. I expect that it has now taken place.
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(Hyacinth macaws) I hope she likes him! To the observer, they seem to form strong bonds. She and the previous male were so synchronised in everything they did.
 
I saw 3 Bongos this morning - 1.1 in the paddock and one, presumably in quarantine, shut in behind the house.

Common knowledge round the zoo and so probably common knowledge on Zoochat too - Simon Tonge retired early this year and has been replaced by Dennis Flynn.
 
Gigit said:
I saw 3 Bongos this morning - 1.1 in the paddock and one, presumably in quarantine, shut in behind the house.

Common knowledge round the zoo and so probably common knowledge on Zoochat too - Simon Tonge retired early this year and has been replaced by Dennis Flynn.
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Simon will be missed. Good bird man.
Any info on the new guy?
 
Gigit said:
I saw 3 Bongos this morning - 1.1 in the paddock and one, presumably in quarantine, shut in behind the house.

Common knowledge round the zoo and so probably common knowledge on Zoochat too - Simon Tonge retired early this year and has been replaced by Dennis Flynn.
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This is fantastic news! Hopefully some calves soon & we’ll have a herd back. Thanks for the update.
 
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