Blue-throated Piping-guan

Pipile cumanensis
14 October 2009

This is a great photo!

Thanks Fkalltheway

fkalltheway said:

This is a great photo!

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Indeed it is.

Thank you Jackwow

I'm hoping to visit this zoo for the first time over the summer and certainly hope to see and photograph rarities like this.

~Thylo

ThylacineAlive said:

I'm hoping to visit this zoo for the first time over the summer and certainly hope to see and photograph rarities like this.

~Thylo

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Also better get there to see the last Douc Langur.

uszoo said:

Also better get there to see the last Douc Langur.

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Yes, that was what made me look at going to Philly in the first place.

~Thylo

Thanks Thylo, USZoo.
@Thylo: for sure you will enjoy it there. Another rarity in Philadelphia Zoo: Aye Aye & Guam Rail. Although Aye Aye might be challenging to see since its exhibit is in total darkness.
Their big cats enclosure is superb too.

Semioptera said:

Thanks Thylo, USZoo.
@Thylo: for sure you will enjoy it there. Another rarity in Philadelphia Zoo: Aye Aye & Guam Rail. Although Aye Aye might be challenging to see since its exhibit is in total darkness.
Their big cats enclosure is superb too.

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I'm sure I will. I certainly hope to see the Guam Rail as that's a species that's alluded me at two zoos so far (Smithsonian and Cincinnati). I've seen Aye-Ayes at Cincinnati so it's not a huge loss it I miss them at Philly. I'm also aiming to see the Feathertail Gliders, Mhorr Gazelles, Secretary Birds, Hosmer's Skink (Egernia hosmeri), the mangabeys, and the Common 'Amakihi (Hemignathus virens) along with the tree boa you've also posted a photo of. I'm sure there are more I'm forgetting to list as well.

~Thylo