Ratites and Tinamous in North America

Ituri said:
So Dallas has both of LA's Somali ostrich hens? Is that correct?
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Both Dallas and Los Angeles have a single Somali hen now. The current Dallas bird was the second Somali hen to arrive at LA. She did not get along with the other animals she was housed with and was thus transferred to Dallas. LA maintained the original female.
 
How many ostrich hens are at Dallas total? How hard is the Somali to pick out?
 
Ituri said:
How many ostrich hens are at Dallas total? How hard is the Somali to pick out?
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There are three ostrich hens at Dallas, all on exhibit in the North Savanna habitat in Giants of the Savanna. The Somali female is fairly easy to distinguish as long as all three of them are visible — one of the common ostrich hens is vastly smaller than the other two hens, and of the two larger hens, the Somali hen is noticeably darker in color and has dark brown eyes, while the second common ostrich hen has bright blue eyes and is paler in color.
 
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Alevus Sanctuary in Texas holds emu.*

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Tennessee Safari Park in Tennessee holds common ostrich, emu, and rhea (unsure of which species).**

https://www.tennesseesafaripark.com/gallery

Alabama Safari Park in Alabama holds southern cassowary, common ostrich, and emu.

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Sustainable Safari in Minnesota holds emu.*

Safari Species - Sustainable Safari

*Emu is mentioned on the facility's website.
**All species are mentioned on the facility's website.
 
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Great Argus said:
Checking their posted photos, their Ostriches are Common, not Somali. They lack all the id characters for Somali.
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Yeah, I thought so too, but it send odd that a keeper would be so specific and also so wrong. Perhaps they're confusing Somali and Masai?
 
SwampDonkey said:
Yeah, I thought so too, but it send odd that a keeper would be so specific and also so wrong. Perhaps they're confusing Somali and Masai?
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Maybe, or could be trying to pass off a common species as a rare one. Somali vs Common is not one most people would know the difference.
 
Great Argus said:
All of the photos I've seen of their birds so far are clearly Common, but it would be interesting to see if they have more Ostriches than they've shown.
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I agree, but getting any photos of their animal areas is not really easy. They opened the Wanyama area with basically no information and they truncated the train through the animal areas, not to mention the new animals they have added this off season. As far as animal theme parks go, this place is kind of a mystery.
 
Zoosiana in Louisiana holds common ostrich, emu, and greater rhea.

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Heritage Park Zoo in Arizona holds emu.

Heritage Park Zoological Sanctuary

Arkansas Alligator Farm & Petting Zoo in Arkansas holds emu.

Arkansas Alligator Farm and Petting Zoo

Performing Animal Welfare Society in California holds emu.

Performing Animal Welfare Society - PAWS

Area 51 Sanctuary in Florida holds common ostrich and emu.

AREA 51 Sanctuary
AREA 51 Sanctuary

Back to Nature Wildlife Refuge in Florida holds emu.

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Where are kiwi currently on public display? Bronx, Columbus, Toledo and Franklin Park? Off-show at the San Diego parks and Miami? SBWI and Pinola private? Am I reading correctly?

Does anyone know when they were taken off public display at the National Zoo? I recall they used to have an exhibit but sadly I didn't know enough about kiwi at the time of my visit (2006) to take an interest.
 
JVM said:
Where are kiwi currently on public display? Bronx, Columbus, Toledo and Franklin Park? Off-show at the San Diego parks and Miami? SBWI and Pinola private? Am I reading correctly?

Does anyone know when they were taken off public display at the National Zoo? I recall they used to have an exhibit but sadly I didn't know enough about kiwi at the time of my visit (2006) to take an interest.
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Rosamond Gifford also has kiwi.
 
JVM said:
Does anyone know when they were taken off public display at the National Zoo? I recall they used to have an exhibit but sadly I didn't know enough about kiwi at the time of my visit (2006) to take an interest.
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The kiwi would've been on display until the bird house closed in January 2017.
 
TinoPup said:
Rosamond Gifford also has kiwi.
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Thank you, good to know.

I've missed the species at two now former holders so it's one I'm always on the lookout to at least miss from the same building next time!

Andrew_NZP said:
The kiwi would've been on display until the bird house closed in January 2017.
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God, my memory is awful. I thought it'd had it's own exhibit entirely, separate from the bird house. My vague memory was seeing they had a kiwi house, and on a truncated afternoon visit, not knowing what a kiwi was, thinking it sounded skippable.
 
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