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Blijdorpenaar said:
Hi guys! I was going through the Zootierliste entry of the little grebe Tachybaptus ruficollis. From what I gather it's a species that has recently expanded quite a bit in European collections, with the only holder (as far as I'm aware) that has a long track record of breeding being Dresden Zoo. As such, I'm under the impression a lot of individuals can be traced back to Dresden (but correct me if I'm wrong). Curiously, ZTL does not give the subspecies status of the European zoo population. That begs the question: does anyone know where Dresden got their first animals from? Because I suspect that that will answer the subspecies question at least for a large part, even if some other founder animals remain unaccounted for :)
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2 facilities in Italy, Oasi di Sant'Alessio and the now defunct Centro Monticello, have had extensive work with local reintroductions, I wouldn't be surprised if their stock is pure nominate.
 
Paul.Haerle said:
Dresden keeps now 1,1 European Stonechats (Saxicola rubicola) in the European bird aviary. Dresden is the only public collection that keeps this beautiful bird worldwide. They’re replace the Common Redstarts.
Has someone here a species list for this aviary and the mediterran and the taiga aviary?
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I visited yesterday and can give you the species list for:

Tundra Aviary (closed for visitors), list from may (could be missing one species)
Common sandpiper (Actitis hypoleucus)
Red-breasted goose (Branta ruficollis)
Common ringed plover (Charadrius hiaticula)
Corncrake (Crex crex)
Harlequin duck (Histrionicus histrionicus)
Grey wagtail (Motacilla cinerea)
Eurasian curlew (Numenius arquata)
Little grebe (Tachybaptus ruficollis)
Common redshank (Tringa totanus)

Grass carp (Ctenopharyngodon idella)
Sneep (Chondrostoma nasus)

European Bird Aviary
European goldfinch (Carduelis carduelis)
Eurasian quail (Coturnix coturnix)
Yellowhammer (Emberiza citrinella)
Common linnet (Linaria cannabina)
European stonechat (Saxicola rubicola)
European turtle dove (Streptopelia turtur)

Mediterranean Aviary
European Stone curlew (Burhinus oedicnemus oedicnemus)
Ortolan bunting (Emberiza hortulana)
European bee-eater (Merops apiaster)
Hoopoe (Upupa epops)

Hermann's tortoise (Testudo hermanni)

Forest Bird Aviary
Eurasian teal (Anas crecca)
Reed bunting (Emberiza schoeniclus) not seen
Little bittern (Ixobrychus minutus)
Bearded tit (Panurus biarmicus)
Willow tit (Poecile montanus)
Eurasian bullfinch (Pyrrhula pyrrhula)
Little grebe (Tachybaptus ruficollis)
Song thrush (Turdus philomelus)
signed and seen until June was also European crested tit (Parus cristatus mitratus)

Forest Bird Aviary (between Vulture and Snowy owl Aviaries)
Reed Bunting (Emberiza schoeniclus) not seen
Red-billed leiothrix (Leiothrix lutea) not seen
Marbled teal (Marmaronetta angustirostris)
Smew (Mergellus albellus)
Grey wagtail (Motacilla cinerea) seen, not signed
Bearded tit (Panurus biarmicus)
Eurasian bullfinch (Pyrrhula pyrrhula)
Song thrush (Turdus philomelus)

some species listed in Zootierliste are possibly not kept anymore
(Excuse any spelling mistakes because i am not an enlish native speaker)
 
daniel806 said:
I visited yesterday and can give you the species list for:

Tundra Aviary (closed for visitors), list from may (could be missing one species)
Common sandpiper (Actitis hypoleucus)
Red-breasted goose (Branta ruficollis)
Common ringed plover (Charadrius hiaticula)
Corncrake (Crex crex)
Harlequin duck (Histrionicus histrionicus)
Grey wagtail (Motacilla cinerea)
Eurasian curlew (Numenius arquata)
Little grebe (Tachybaptus ruficollis)
Common redshank (Tringa totanus)

Grass carp (Ctenopharyngodon idella)
Sneep (Chondrostoma nasus)

European Bird Aviary
European goldfinch (Carduelis carduelis)
Eurasian quail (Coturnix coturnix)
Yellowhammer (Emberiza citrinella)
Common linnet (Linaria cannabina)
European stonechat (Saxicola rubicola)
European turtle dove (Streptopelia turtur)

Mediterranean Aviary
European Stone curlew (Burhinus oedicnemus oedicnemus)
Ortolan bunting (Emberiza hortulana)
European bee-eater (Merops apiaster)
Hoopoe (Upupa epops)

Hermann's tortoise (Testudo hermanni)

Forest Bird Aviary
Eurasian teal (Anas crecca)
Reed bunting (Emberiza schoeniclus) not seen
Little bittern (Ixobrychus minutus)
Bearded tit (Panurus biarmicus)
Willow tit (Poecile montanus)
Eurasian bullfinch (Pyrrhula pyrrhula)
Little grebe (Tachybaptus ruficollis)
Song thrush (Turdus philomelus)
signed and seen until June was also European crested tit (Parus cristatus mitratus)

Forest Bird Aviary (between Vulture and Snowy owl Aviaries)
Reed Bunting (Emberiza schoeniclus) not seen
Red-billed leiothrix (Leiothrix lutea) not seen
Marbled teal (Marmaronetta angustirostris)
Smew (Mergellus albellus)
Grey wagtail (Motacilla cinerea) seen, not signed
Bearded tit (Panurus biarmicus)
Eurasian bullfinch (Pyrrhula pyrrhula)
Song thrush (Turdus philomelus)

some species listed in Zootierliste are possibly not kept anymore
(Excuse any spelling mistakes because i am not an enlish native speaker)
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Thank you very much
 
merlin said:
The cheetahs were moved in there recently, but only permanently... Otherwise, I don't know.
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Yup. It doesn´t seem to me as ideal for cheetahs, but for some other species it may be good even as permanent...?
 
xmoose said:
Yup. It doesn´t seem to me as ideal for cheetahs, but for some other species it may be good even as permanent...?
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I see what you mean ..., I also think that the old orang house is not suitable for them. What alternatives / options would we have ... given that Dresdner Zoo is quite competent for reinventing old buildings and creating new state of the art zoo exhibits (I can think of a few .. there ..., BTW always a pleasure to visit this green zoo).
 
Some Information i gathered yesterday from Zookeeper-Talks during the special "Zoo-Day"

- the cheetahs move in the next days/weeks back to their original enclosure
- long tailed-fiscals are behind the scenes at the moment because of spurfowl chicks in their aviary
- grey crowned cranes laid eggs the 3rd time this year (4 chicks hatched so far, but all died very early)
- a Kirk's dik-dik was born last week
- southern bald ibis had 3 chicks this year (1 was parent-reared), they are now as big as the adults

several births in the Tundra Aviary:
little grebe 9 chicks in three breedings, common redshank 6, common sandpiper 2,
ringed plover more than 5, grey wagtail at least 1, red breasted goose 1
corncrake are two pairs and they had also chicks

no breeding from eurasian curlew (they think the aviary could be to busy for them to breed)
 
 
Oh gosh, I'm just now noticing I said "permanently" instead of "temporarily" when talking about the cheetahs, sorry!
Anyway, the zoo announced the last two remaining South American coatis left to a Hungarian zoo. They are now expecting the arrival of a breeding pair of white-nosed coatis.
source
 
merlin said:
Oh gosh, I'm just now noticing I said "permanently" instead of "temporarily" when talking about the cheetahs, sorry!
Anyway, the zoo announced the last two remaining South American coatis left to a Hungarian zoo. They are now expecting the arrival of a breeding pair of white-nosed coatis.
source
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The Eu-Ban on South American Coaties is still one of the many stupid bureaucratic nonsense ideas of the EU. Especially since in theory Withe-Nosed Coaties are more cold tolerant
 
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