Technically yes but there are a few other birds you can see if you know where to look. I’m KidZooU, you can see the pigeons through their indoor windows. If you look through windows of the KidZooU Building which is closed due to avian flu, you can see chickens and Royal Palm turkeys. Lastly, you can peek inside McNeil Avian Center from the building’s exterior and you can see Cookie Monster the great blue turaco from the large center window.
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Awesome, thanks! I'll definitely try to find the turaco (a personal favorite group of mine)
A black and rufous elephant shrew was born recently, and is the first birth of this species at the zoo in over a decade. Parents are Niffler and Drita.
We've had lots of baby elephant shrews over the years.
Are the elephant shrews on exhibit or are they in the closed small mammal house?
They're also kept in the rare mammal center.
I never understood why they just didn't mix the hogs in with the rhino/zebra, giraffes or hippos... they have a bollard system in place for the former/latter exhibits.
Now that you mention it... the kangaroos already had a fine enough exhibit near the Small Mammal House.
I visited the zoo today.
-The large enclosure called the Phase in African Plains is under renovation. They have built a new shed with the new ankole cattle arriving soon. Now since it is under construction it is all dirt, but I hope it becomes very grassy like it did many years ago before the red river hogs moved there, but the hogs will destroy it over time.
-From my observations in Rare Animal Conservation Center, it seems like Grogu the baby sloth is now with the titi monkeys and elephant shrew. There is no sign, there are still the sloth signs on the other two sloth exhibits. His mother Latte is still in Small Mammal house which is closed. Grogu is going to be 1 in May.
-The goats with horns in KidZooU are now all back in the side yard like they used to be with warmer weather. Sheldon and Dale the Arapawa goats, and Chance and Aramelis, the gray angora goats are there. Milan, the third white angora, was nowhere to be found, and I have not seen her in 3 visits, so I suspect she has passed given her advanced age.
-Pigeons in KidZooU are back outside, despite avian flu, not sure why. All other birds are still inside
-The signs in big cat falls have changed showing all the big cats on one sign at each exhibit. The reason is since they rotate cats, the signs are not 100 percent accurate all the time.
-The large enclosure called the Phase in African Plains is under renovation. They have built a new shed with the new ankole cattle arriving soon. Now since it is under construction it is all dirt, but I hope it becomes very grassy like it did many years ago before the red river hogs moved there, but the hogs will destroy it over time.
-From my observations in Rare Animal Conservation Center, it seems like Grogu the baby sloth is now with the titi monkeys and elephant shrew. There is no sign, there are still the sloth signs on the other two sloth exhibits. His mother Latte is still in Small Mammal house which is closed. Grogu is going to be 1 in May.
-The goats with horns in KidZooU are now all back in the side yard like they used to be with warmer weather. Sheldon and Dale the Arapawa goats, and Chance and Aramelis, the gray angora goats are there. Milan, the third white angora, was nowhere to be found, and I have not seen her in 3 visits, so I suspect she has passed given her advanced age.
-Pigeons in KidZooU are back outside, despite avian flu, not sure why. All other birds are still inside
-The signs in big cat falls have changed showing all the big cats on one sign at each exhibit. The reason is since they rotate cats, the signs are not 100 percent accurate all the time.
Any other species moving into The Phase?
No, there will just be the ankole cattle and the same there used to be
Why are more zoos lately going into Ankole Cattle instead of Cape Buffalo or some other large bovid. They're cool cattle but come on.
~Thylo
I agree. I wanted the zoo to get bongos. I spoke to a former employee at the zoo when I was in ZooCrew and we talked about bongos and how they are relatively easy to care for because act just like cows. Either way, it is nice to see changes to the Phase. It has been stagnant for far too long.
What species of Pigeons are they?
Domestic rock pigeons. There are multiple different breeds.
Aw. I would've rathered it be an exotic species, but I'm glad there's at least some sort of bird I can see on my likely visit next week.
