Northeastern Wisconsin Zoo & Adventure Park What's New at the N.E.W Zoo?

Updates from my visit today:
  • The pigeons were off-exhibit.
  • The Leopard Tortoise has a new outdoor yard in the Children's Zoo next to the chicken coop.
  • The Wild Turkey has moved again, this time to the smallest Alpaca yard (the Alpacas no longer use this yard). This also means he now gets an indoor space.
  • The European Fallow Deer and Sandhill Crane were off-exhibit due to construction in their enclosure.
  • The new Red Fox was on exhibit and fairly active.
  • The Whooping Crane is not yet on-exhibit.
  • According to a sign, a Long-tailed Chinchilla will be moving into the old rat exhibit.
  • The North American Aviary has been split into three separate enclosures now, instead of the usual two. One for the Bald Eagle, one for the pelicans and one pair of Northern Pintails, and one for everything else (Blue-winged Teal, Canvasback, and Killdeer are still absent, I suspect they are no longer at the zoo).
  • There were only swan cygnets in the enclosure. I wonder what happened to the other two?
 
Updates from today:

  • Construction is still going on the European Fallow Deer/Sandhill Crane yard, though the animals are back in it.
  • Construction is now going on one of the petting yards (the one adjacent to the chicken coop) and the animals were closed off from it.
  • The pigeons are back.
  • The North American Aviary is back to just two exhibits.
  • The Whooping Crane is now in her yard.
  • The alligator was not on exhibit.
  • The two exhibits in the Nutrition Center today housed the American Crow and the Prehensile-tailed Porcupine.
 
Updates from today's visit (5/14/21):
It was my first visit in over a year, so apologies if some of this is "old" news.
- There are now 2 whooping cranes on exhibit.
- The exhibit that held cougars is now home to a Canadian Lynx.
- There was only one raccoon in the exhibit.
- The tunnels into/under the prairie dog and badger exhibits are closed.
- Still construction going on in the fallow deer/children's zoo area, but the only the fallow deer were off exhibit.
 
Updates from my visit today:
  • Saw both Whoopers out for the first time.
  • I saw a badger here for the first time since they got a new exhibit.
  • A Long-tailed Chinchilla now inhabits the former Norway Rat exhibit.
  • The Sandhill Crane and European Fallow Deer are back in their exhibit.
  • There was construction going on in the petting yard. Part of this was installing new barriers to conform with a new AZA policy.
  • The alligator’s winter quarters (usually empty this time of year) had some sort of animal in them, it I couldn’t tell what.
  • The Wild Turkey appears to be gone from the zoo, his exhibit is now inhabited by Alpacas.
 
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Updates from today:

  • The petting yard construction is done. It mostly consisted of adding new barns.
  • A "Rainbow Lorikeet" (not sure which species) now lives with the Dusky Lorikeets.
  • The Central Bearded Dragons and Leopard Tortoises were both off-exhibit today.
  • The alligator winter quarters were definitely empty.
 
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