In the Asian aviary near the snow leopards, elephants and red pandas, which it shares with red-crowned crane, blue eared pheasants, cheer pheasants and green peafowl.
@Kakapo I meant black-headed ibis, Threskiornis melanocephalus, not black-faced. Bad error made when copying the name from Zootierliste when I was tired.
I'm very sorry for that stupid error, which I have now corrected.
Planckendael has black-headed ibis (Asian aviary near snow leopards and elephants), African sacred ibis (African aviary) and black-faced ibis (Penguin/flamingo aviary).
I've only just now realized Planckendael actually has quite a large Pelecaniformes collection.
@Kakapo
African sacred ibis, black-headed ibis, black-faced ibis, scarlet ibis, straw-necked ibis, waldrapp, glossy ibis, Eurasian spoonbill, African spoonbill, black-crowned night heron, green-backed heron, purple heron, cattle egret, white-faced heron, little egret, hamerkop, great white pelican and Dalmatian pelican.
I think that's quite a nice list in terms of both number of species and the presence of at least a few less common species. There are almost certainly large species-rich zoos or specialized bird zoos that have more Pelecaniformes species, but still, not bad.
I'm the sort of person who often thinks "a few more bird species would be nice" but I'm quite content with this list. I do wish they still had boat-billed herons, though (they did until a few years ago).
Oh, only two species then. Not what I would consider "quite large" But I see however that they have a quite large Ciconiiformes collection instead
I like boat-billed herons a lot. Not a true rarity in zoos, but still not enough common for make them "boring". And they're so unique in shape! I hope that the species come back to this zoo some day
