Jurong Bird Park Jurong Bird Park News 2022

Zooish said:
Talarak Foundation's Instagram post on the transfer of 6 (3.3) Negros Bleeding Heart Doves to Jurong Bird Park. These 6 birds are the only ones of the species outside the Philippines' Negros province.

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They have already bred the Negros bleeding hearts.

Further, some Luzon bleeding hearts (perhaps up to 20+) were sent back to the Philippines N. Luzon for a release project.
 
Kifaru Bwana said:
I have heard similar rumours. I would hope that further birds may be found on Panay and Negros to expand the gene pool. Estimated mature birds 50-249 with a total population 40-700 individuals. The captive population stood at 88 birds in 2020.
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It would be helpful to try to locate or trap more wild born birds of find some with private breeders (do they exist .... as the songbird crisis also extends to Philippines).
 
Kifaru Bwana said:
Now they have reneged on that Blessing, they might as well Forget ever contributing to a blue macaws ex situ conservation project. Further, there is plenty of Asian songbirds in dire need of conservation ex situ breeding programmes.
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Yes that was the intent of their withdrawal from the blue macaws programme (and perhaps some untold politics at work), to focus on Southeast Asian species.
 
Zooish said:
Not exactly. Ideally the new premises should be in move-in condition by now to comfortably open by year's end. The next few months will be a mad rush if they are still keeping to that opening date.
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There are some signs the timeline is slipping again. The new Bird Paradise might open in mid 2023 instead.
 
So when I visited in the end of July, the northern cassowaries were still in a very small yard. At the back of the saddle-billed stork enclosure were some crowned cranes only visible from the little hut by the storks, I presume they are meant to be off show. It seems the southern cassowaries have about 2 proper yards (didn't see any of them that day), strange that the northern cassowaries are kept in quite a discreet area since naturally you'd expect Jurong to flaunt that they have such a rare species
 
Rod Stewart the park's Egyptian vulture has passed away on August 25th. At over 60 years old, he had exceeded the average life expectancy of an Egyptian vulture. Log into Facebook
 
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Has the species roster in the main birds of prey aviary changed recently? Watched a video just now and hooded vultures seem to have a sign instead of the palm-nut vulture and the map has added Andean condors and king vultures idk
 
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Jurong received 2 new species of hornbills recently - a female Wrinkled Hornbill (Rhabdotorrhinus corrugatus) and a breeding pair of Sulawesi Hornbills (Rhabdotorrhinus exarhatus sanfordi). The new Bird Paradise will supposedly house "the world's largest living genetic reserve of hornbills under human care, with over 20 species". Jurong currently has 21 species of hornbills, although a few species are single specimens.
 
A bunch of waterfowl were recently added to the collection:

Allen's Gallinule (Porphyrio alleni)
Spur-winged Goose (Plectropterus gambensis)
Indian Pygmy Goose (Nettapus coromandelianus)
Freckled Duck (Stictonetta naevosa)
Hartlaub's Duck (Pteronetta hartlaubii)
Australian Wood Duck (Chenonetta jubata)
Plumed Whistling Duck (Dendrocygna eytoni)
Madagascar Teal (Anas bernieri)
Radjah Shelduck (Radjah radjah)
 
Zooish said:
More new birds trickling in:

Andean Cock-of-the-Rock (Rupicola peruvianus)
Guianan Cock-of-the-Rock (Rupicola rupicola)
Curl-crested Aracari (Pteroglossus beauharnaisii)
Saffron Toucanet (Pteroglossus bailloni)
Knobbed Hornbill (Rhyticeros cassidix)
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Missed out the Capuchinbirds (Perissocephalus tricolor), another fantastic new addition. These new species are in quarantine/off-show and will debut at Bird Paradise next year.
 
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