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White-necked picathartes

Old archive photo.
Antwerp Zoo had a long history with this species but never bred it. Numbers kept during the years are as follow :
1964 to 1969 2 birds
1970 1 bird
1971 3 birds
1972 1 bird
1973 6 birds
1974 to 1975 2 birds
1976 to 1977 1 bird
1978 8 birds
1979 5 birds
1980 to 1982 3 birds
1983 to 1985 1 bird
1986 0 birds
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vogelcommando
Old archive photo.
Antwerp Zoo had a long history with this species but never bred it. Numbers kept during the years are as follow :
1964 to 1969 2 birds
1970 1 bird
1971 3 birds
1972 1 bird
1973 6 birds
1974 to 1975 2 birds
1976 to 1977 1 bird
1978 8 birds
1979 5 birds
1980 to 1982 3 birds
1983 to 1985 1 bird
1986 0 birds
 
baboon
One of my most-want-to-see species! What is the difficult of keeping and breeding them? And if there are zoos still holding them? thanks!
 
dean
When ever I see or hear of this species I think of Sir David Attenborough in his zoo quest days, it also appears in is autobiography.
 
vogelcommando
@ baboon : actualy it was not a difficult species at all and was bred succesfully at 3 zoos but because of the lack of cooperation the species has dissappeared completly from zoos. In the wild it also is very rare !
@ dean : Also Gerald Durrell discribed in one of his book about a search for this species ( if I remember right "the Bafut Beagle" (?) ).
 
Tim May
dean said:
When ever I see or hear of this species I think of Sir David Attenborough in his zoo quest days, it also appears in is autobiography.
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London Zoo’s white-necked picathartes acquired on David Attenborough’s “Zoo Quest” expedition was, I believe, the first ever exhibited in any zoo.

(London Zoo was also the first zoo to exhibit a grey-necked picathartes.)
 
vogelcommando
Yes Tim May is right, London was the first zoo to show this species in 1955.
Strange enough the Grey-necked Picathartes, a species much rarer being kept in captivity was to be seen at London Zoo already in 1949 !
 
Tim May
vogelcommando said:
Strange enough the Grey-necked Picathartes, a species much rarer being kept in captivity was to be seen at London Zoo already in 1949 !
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Actually the grey-necked picathartes, collected by C. S. Webb, arrived at the zoo in 1948. This individual was still alive when the zoo received the white-necked picathartes.
 
vogelcommando
OK thanks Tim May, didn't know that, my reference says it was 1949 ( The ICBP/IUCN Red Data Book Part 1 : Threatened Birds of Africa and related Islands ).
 
Tim May
vogelcommando said:
OK thanks Tim May, didn't know that, my reference says it was 1949 ( The ICBP/IUCN Red Data Book Part 1 : Threatened Birds of Africa and related Islands ).
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It's listed as arriving at London Zoo in the Zoological Society of London Annual Report for 1948.
 

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