Thanks, I see you have listed Hamerton as 22 which is correct, I had accounted for tiger and jackal being listed twice on ZTL but not the binturong!
UK's Largest Zoological Collections By Taxonomic Class
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Kalaw
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That list is brilliant, thanks for providing this!
The Clore Pavilion in its early days was simply astonishing!
Especially with species like Haitian solenodon and moonrat, that I've never seen elsewhere before or since....
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Twycross??
This is for discussed zoos only.
It is surprising that with only 21 species now, the one time 'world primate centre' is now behind at least 5 other zoos (monkeyworld has 22 but obviously isn't relevant to the list).
I used to cycle past both attractions on a ride to work from home in Chester and work in Ellesmere Port
Surprised by Five Sisters popping up quite a lot in the list! It's a very dense little park
Since this has already been done for the mammals, I decided to see how the birds shaped up.
Waterfowl: Slimbridge 93; Martin Mere 76; Cotswold 29; Exmoor 21; Chester 20; Paignton 15; Birdworld 14; Birdland 6; Tropical Birdland 5; Paradise 3; London 2
Parrots: Paradise 53; Tropical Birdland 49; Birdworld 28; Birdland 17; Exmoor 14; Paignton 12; Chester 11; London 9; Cotswold 5
Passerines: Chester 42; London 27; Paradise 24; Birdworld 22; Tropical Birdland 20; Cotswold & Birdland 13; Paignton 12; Exmoor 11; Slimbridge 1
Landfowl: Chester 19; Birdworld 13; Cotswold 10; Birdland 9; Paradise, Exmoor & Paignton 8; Tropical Birdland & London 5
Pigeons: Birdworld 19; Chester 16; Birdland 10; Paignton 9; Cotswold & London 7; Tropical Birdland & Exmoor 6; Paradise 4
Pelicaniformes: Exmoor 11; Cotswold 10; Birdland 9; Birdworld & Paignton 7; London 5; Chester 4; Slimbridge 3; Martin Mere 2; Paradise & Tropical Birdland 1
Owls: Birdworld 11; Birdland 7; Chester, Cotswold, Paignton & London 5; Exmoor 4; Paradise & Tropical Birdland 3
Shorebirds: Slimbridge 8; Birdworld 7; Cotswold & Birdland 5; Exmoor & Paignton 3; Chester, Paradise & Martin Mere 2; Tropical Birdland & London 1
Turacos: Birdworld & Paradise 8; Birdland 4; Exmoor & London 3; Chester & Tropical Birdland 2; Cotswold & Paignton 1
Bucerotiformes: Birdworld 7; Chester, Paradise & Tropical Birdland 4; Birdland & Exmoor 3; Cotswold, Paignton & London 2
Birds of Prey: Paradise 7; Chester & London 5; Cotswold 2; Birdworld, Tropical Birdland, Exmoor & Paignton 1
Flamingos: Slimbridge 5; Birdland 3; Birdworld, Chester, Tropical Birdland & Martin Mere 2; Paradise, Cotswold, Paignton & London 1
Gruiformes: Exmoor & Paignton 4; Chester, Slimbridge, Cotswold, Birdland & Martin Mere 3; Birdworld, Paradise & Tropical Birdland 2; London 1
Storks: Cotswold & Paignton 3; Birdland & London 2; Birdworld, Exmoor & Martin Mere 1
Coraciiformes: Birdland 3; Birdworld, Paradise & Exmoor 2; Chester, Cotswold, Tropical Birdland & London 1
Penguins: Birdland 3; Birdworld 2; Chester, Paradise, Cotswold & London 1
Ramphastides: Birdworld, Chester & Cotswold 2; Paradise, Birdland, Paignton & London 1
Falcons: Birdworld, Paradise & London 2; Cotswold & Birdland 1
Casuariiformes: Cotswold & Birdland 2; Birdworld, Chester, Tropical Birdland & Paignton 1
Frogmouths: Birdworld, Paradise, Cotswold, Birdland & Exmoor 1
Seriemas: Birdworld, Birdland, Paignton & London 1
Cuckoos: Cotswold, Birdland & Paignton 1
Ostriches: Cotswold, Paignton & London 1
Rheas: Birdworld, Birdland & Exmoor 1
Mousebirds: Chester & Paradise 1
Sunbittern: Chester & London 1
Tinamous: Chester & Birdland 1
Trogons: Chester & London 1
Bustards: Cotswold 1
Cormorants: Birdworld 1
Kiwis: Paignton 1
Naturally, the two wetland centres get the vast majority of their tally from waterfowl, but there's still definitely variants like with the mammals.
I wonder what Slimbridge in particular, totalled in waterfowl species at its highest.
katieanna03
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Is there no information about inverts? I've tried having a look on Zootierliste, but there doesn't seem to be a section for inverts - would be nice to see how they are represented in UK zoo's.
The biggest collection of terrestrial invertebrates is surely The Bug Parc in Norfolk.
Zootierliste does not include them.
katieanna03
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I've had a look at the zooterliste website and cannot find the section that these numbers were taken from, could anyone point me in the right direction? appreciate any help, I'm trying to research UK zoo's for my dissertation 
Kalaw
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Unfortunately, there is no way to find such a list on ZTL. To find a list of zoos with the most overall species, simply go to ‘Species Richest Zoos,’ but there is no such function to filter by class.I've had a look at the zooterliste website and cannot find the section that these numbers were taken from, could anyone point me in the right direction? appreciate any help, I'm trying to research UK zoo's for my dissertation
To work around that, one instead has to go to ‘Expert Search,’ select a zoo that you suspect will do well in a class, then select that class and enter. This will provide you with a list that you must manually count out. To save time, you can always copy and paste the list into a google doc and set it to a numbered list.
Please note that there are many other collections with birds in and we also have many birds of prey centers around the UK.
Zootierliste is only as good as the people who update it.
WWT are downsizing there collections at the moment and as I have asked for help in the past in updating there status on zootierliste and no one seems to have done this then I would take the lists from zootierliste as slightly out of date.
Zootierliste is only as good as the people who update it.
WWT are downsizing there collections at the moment and as I have asked for help in the past in updating there status on zootierliste and no one seems to have done this then I would take the lists from zootierliste as slightly out of date.