Jurong Bird Park Hornbills,pheasants, Birds of Paradise and those odd looking parrots

Writhedhornbill said:
Woooooo!!!:)

Are these pelicans still on show?
Any news about whether the Green junglefowl are back on show?
Are the germain's and Malayan peacock pheasant still on exhibit?
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The pelicans are nesting on the Pelican Cove exhibit island, so they are visible to the public.

I noticed Jurong has been making a conscious effort to reduce fowl species, including pheasants because of bird flu. I suspect a number of birds have been culled, including a whole flock of about 6 to 8 black-necked swans. This wasn't reported or made public, my own guess. The swans just all vanished between 2 visits which were no more than couple months apart.
 
Chlidonias said:
binoculars are also handy for the wild birds that the place attracts. The woodpecker aviaries often attract wild woodpeckers coming to check out their captive friends (I've also seen tree shrews there)
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Sadly the woodpecker exhibit no longer exists. The aviaries now serve as holding cages for surplus African species like the red-billed hornbill, turacos and lovebirds.
 
Writhedhornbill said:
Thanks zooish, in a week I'll be in Borneo, and then the week after Singapore!
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Cool my parents are chinese and were born in Malaysia, Sarawak hope you get the chance to go to Kuching, there is the crocodile farm of the notorious Bujang Senang and there is also a beautiful orang utan Sanctuary, I've always wanted to go there,
 
Zooish said:
Sadly the woodpecker exhibit no longer exists. The aviaries now serve as holding cages for surplus African species like the red-billed hornbill, turacos and lovebirds.
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that's a shame. I didn't think the woodpecker and kingfisher aviaries were all that nice in themselves (kind of small and pokey I thought, but that may have just been in comparison to the birds of paradise etc aviaries which are so large) but it was nice to have the birds all together. Where are the woodpeckers now, or are they gone completely?
 
I'm preety sure but is Jurong and Singapore zoo owned by the same organisation?
 
Chlidonias said:
that's a shame. I didn't think the woodpecker and kingfisher aviaries were all that nice in themselves (kind of small and pokey I thought, but that may have just been in comparison to the birds of paradise etc aviaries which are so large) but it was nice to have the birds all together. Where are the woodpeckers now, or are they gone completely?
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The benefit of having individual aviaries is that you can spot the birds with much greater ease as compared to the large walk-in aviaries.

The woodpeckers have not been relocated anywhere. I doubt they have been released into the larger SE Asian aviary, considering they might do a bit of damage to the trees.
 
Thank you Zoosih,
Singapore I find has very beautiful zoos, plus the weather is also beautiful, it pitches in the life likeness,
 
Cassowary

I wonder wear jurong got their single wattled cassowaries? I am trying desperately to find some, there are none in north america except for my female that I have aquired, I have raised double wattled cassowaries for years now. Its ashamed there arent more single wattles in captivity, I would love to help fix that if I could find some to import. Can anyone help? If so, please email me...casuarius81@yahoo.com. Thanks
 
Would anyone be able to post a complete or partial species list for any of these exhibits?
Jungle Jewels
Waterfall Aviary
South-east Asian Aviary

Thanks!
 
siamang27 said:
Would anyone be able to post a complete or partial species list for any of these exhibits?
Jungle Jewels
Waterfall Aviary
South-east Asian Aviary
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from my photos and memory (2006 visit):

the Waterfall Aviary originally housed birds from all over the globe (including the hundreds of lories and lorikeets now in their own walk-through aviary) but now they are using it mainly for African birds. Species I have photos of or remember are:
royal starling
wattled starling
emerald starling
superb spreo
hoopoe
various bee-eaters (including carmine and red-throated)
African grey parrot (I think these have since been removed)
white-crowned river chat
various weavers (can't remember species)
various touracos (I remember Lady Ross', violaceous, white-cheeked...)
red-whiskered bulbul
oropendola sp
at least two roller species
there were Seychelles pigeons in there at one point (perhaps still)

Southeast Asian Aviary:

on my first visit in 2004 there were a lot of roulrouls in here but I saw none at all on my last visit in 2006. There are individual aviaries around the inside of the walk-through for silver pheasant, fish owl, green magpies, etc. Birds loose in the main aviary include:
crowned pigeon sp
Nicobar pigeon
pied imperial pigeon
pink-necked green pigeon and other fruit doves
emerald dove (green-winged pigeon)
fairy bluebird

Jungle Jewels:

before the main aviary are several small glass-fronted cages for (originally) hummingbirds but by my visits these had all either died or been replaced by other small South American birds (I can't remember species). There is also a golden lion tamarin cage inside the door of the main aviary.
The only species inside the main aviary that I remember are wattled jacana, spangled cotinga (and another cotinga I can't recall the name of), and there were LOTS of different species of tanagers, honeybirds, etc. There may have been a few hummingbirds in there too.


If I go back there this year I'll see if I can make better lists :)
 
Its been a while...

It has been a while
 
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Jungle Jewels has seen the introduction of more parrot species lately. The tamarins have been removed. No more hummingbirds sadly. The indoor gallery with glass-fronted aviaries has been converted into a small avian museum. Here's a rough list of species:

Waterfowl:
Wood Duck
Rosybill Porchard
Ruddy-headed Goose

Parrots:
Sun Conure
Jenday Conure
Blue-headed Conure
Golden Conure
Crimson-bellied Conure
Blue Headed Parrot
Hawk Headed Parrot

Passerines:
Spangled Cotinga
Yellow-hooded Blackbird
Red Crested Cardinal
Green Honeycreeper
Blue Honeycreeper
Saffron Finch
Paradise Tanager
Pied Tanager
Silver Beaked Tanager
Green-gold Tanager
Violaceous Euphonia

Others:
Peruvian Pigeon
Bare-throated Bellbird (not sure if its still there)
 
The Waterfall Aviary has been "Africanised" as rightly pointed out by Chlidonias, and is now named African Waterfall Aviary. Though it is landscaped as a rainforest, it houses African birds from various habitats including savanna and woodland species. Here's a rough list:

Turacos:
Hartlaub's
Guinea
Livingstone's
Purple-crested
Violet
Lady Ross'
Great Blue

Parrots:
Black-masked Lovebird
Fischer's Lovebird
Red-bellied Parrot

Waterfowl/Fowl:
White-faced Whistling Duck
Cape Shelduck
Abyssinian Blue-winged Goose
Egyptian Goose
Vulturine Guinea Fowl
Helmeted Guinea Fowl
Crested Guinea Fowl

Starlings:
Purple Glossy
Lesser Blue-eared
Superb
Hildebrandt's
Golden-breasted
Emerald
Wattled

Rollers:
Blue-breasted
Rufous-crowned
Lilac-breasted
Broadbill

Others:
Red and Yellow Barbet
Bearded Barbet
Spotted backed Weaver
White-headed Buffalo Weaver
Red Fody
Paradise Whydah
Ring-necked Dove
Carmine Bee-eater
Hoopoe
Grey Crowned Crane
Southern Ground Hornbill

This list is from my own observations. It is NOT an official list from Jurong Bird Park. I do NOT work for Jurong Bird Park. I do NOTrepresent Jurong Bird Park, and I don't claim to either. :rolleyes:

I've also posted some photos of the African Waterfall Aviary in the Gallery.
 
Thank goodness our Singapore oracle is back on board!
Welcome back MATE!

I have visited Jurong Bird Park on my way back from Cebu, Philippines. I was having an iffy day out there, but was more than overwhelmed by the birds of paradise and hornbill sections.

I also thought the exhibit with saddle billed stork and various wetland birds as you enter was quite nice .... The saddle billed storks were nest-building at the time and the male was sort of standing his ground to every visitor. So touching to see these birds pair bond so conspicuously and the male putting new twigs to the female. It was almost natural poetry ....

K.B.
 
Good to have you back.

The african waterfall aviary looks amazing and to have 7 turacos in one exhibit would be cool to see.
 
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