Realms of the Amazon - The Realms of the Hoatzin and the Macaw

Realms of the Amazon - The Realm of the Hoatzin and the Macaw

This realm focuses on the very rich avifauna of the Amazon Basin and the Amazon biome.

In the species list below dotted lists represent the different species in mixed exhibits, striped lists represent different species kept in the different exhibits of an area, building or complex.

Amazon Bird Jungle complex

Amazon Bird Jungle walk-through tropical house and Amazon Bird Jungle outdoor walk-through aviary

• Black-winged trumpeter or Dark-winged trumpeter (Psophia obscura or Psophia viridis obscura)
• Azure gallinule (Porphyrio flavirostris)
• Sunbittern (Eurypyga helias)
• Screaming piha (Lipaugus vociferans)
• Black-faced cotinga (Conioptilon mcilhennyi)
• Rufous-winged ground cuckoo (Neomorphus rufipennis)
• Bearded bellbird, Campanero or Anvil-bird (Procnias averano)
• Black-bellied whistling duck (Dendrocygna autumnalis)
• Russet-crowned crake (Rufirallus viridis)
• Pompadour cotinga (Xipholena punicea)
• Tui parakeet (Brotogeris sanctithomae)
• Orange-cheeked parrot or Barraband’s parrot (Pyrilia barrabandi)
• Rondônia bushbird (Clytoctantes atrogularis)
• Purple-breasted cotinga (Cotinga cotinga)
• Brown-chested barbet or Cinnamon-breasted barbet (Capito brunneipectus)
• Blue ground dove (Claravis pretiosa)
• Rufous-breasted Wood-Quail (Odontophorus speciosus)
• Red-rumped cacique (Cacicus haemorrhous)
• Golden-collared honeycreeper (Iridophanes pulcherrimus)
• Crestless curassow (Mitu tomentosum)
• Cinnamon attila (Attila cinnamomeus)
• Orange-backed troupial or Orange-backed oriole (Icterus croconotus)
• Barred antshrike (Thamnophilus doliatus)
• Rufous-bellied euphonia (Euphonia rufiventris)
• Ferruginous-backed antbird (Myrmoderus ferrugineus)
• Rio Branco antbird (Cercomacra carbonaria)
• Scaled antpitta (Grallaria guatimalensis)
• Pavonine quetzal (Pharomachrus pavoninus)
• Bananaquit (Coereba flaveola)
• Red-capped cardinal (Paroaria gularis)
• Blue-gray tanager (Thraupis episcopus)
• Green honeycreeper (Chlorophanes spiza)
• Wire-tailed manakin (Pipra filicauda)
• Snow-capped manakin (Lepidothrix nattereri)

Tepui Dome: species from the tepuis of the Guiana Shield

1) Mixed walk-through exhibit with tepui bird species

• Red-banded fruiteater (Pipreola whitelyi)
• Guianan cock-of-the-rock (Rupicola rupicola)
• Rose-collared piha (Lipaugus streptophorus)
• Tepui tinamou (Crypturellus ptaritepui)
• Tepui brushfinch (Atlapetes personatus)
• Greater flowerpiercer (Diglossa major)
• Tepui antpitta or Brown-breasted antpitta (Myrmothera simplex)
• Tepui whitestart or Tepui redstart (Myioborus castaneocapilla)
• Tepui vireo (Vireo sclateri)
• Tepui foliage-gleaner or White-throated foliage-gleaner (Syndactyla roraimae)

2) Tepui toucanet or Whitely's toucanet (Aulacorhynchus whitelianus)

3) Fiery-shouldered parakeet or Fiery-shouldered conure (Pyrrhura egregia) and Tepui tinamou (Crypturellus ptaritepui)

4) Tepui parrotlet (Nannopsittaca panychlora) and Tepui tinamou (Crypturellus ptaritepui)

5) Tepui Amphibian and reptile terrariums

- Pantepuisaurus rodriguesi [No common name found]
- Roraima black frog or Roraima bush toad (Oreophrynella quelchii)
- Tepuis tree frog (Stefania ginesi)
- Monte Duida tree frog (Tepuihyla aecii)
- Hoogmoed's tree frog (Boana roraima)
- Anomaloglossus roraima [No common name found]

Hummingbird and Butterfly Dome

1) Mixed walk-through exhibit with hummingbirds, honeycreepers, quails and butterflies

• Crimson topaz (Topaza pella)
• Tapajós hermit (Phaethornis aethopygus)
• White-necked jacobin (Florisuga mellivora)
• Fork-tailed woodnymph (Thalurania furcata)
• Red-legged honeycreeper (Cyanerpes cyaneus)
• Starred wood quail (Odontophorus stellatus)
• Thoas swalloswtail (Papilio thoas)
• Morpho telemachus
• Red rim or Crimson-banded black(Biblis hyperia)
• Illinissa glasswing (Hyposcada illinissa)
• Brown peacock, Scarlet peacock or Red peacock (Anartia amathea)
• Papilio zagreus
• Parides aenaes
• Periander metalmark or Variable beautymark (Rhetus periander)
• Godart's Agrias (Prepona claudina)
• Forest giant owl (Caligo eurilochus)
• Scarce bamboo page or Dido longwing (Philaethria dido)
• Tiger longwing, Hecale longwing, Golden longwing or Golden heliconian (Heliconius hecale)
• Red postman, Small postman, Red passion flower butterfly or Crimson-patched longwing (Heliconius erato)
• Doris longwing (Heliconius doris)
• Wallace's longwing (Heliconius wallacei)
• Sara longwing (Heliconius sara)
• Hermathena longwing (Heliconius hermathena)
• Helenor blue morpho or Common blue morpho (Morpho helenor)

2) Row of separate hummingbird aviaries (also including separation aviaries for dome)

- Gould's jewelfront (Heliodoxa aurescens)
- Black-throated mango (Anthracothorax nigricollis)
- Black-bellied thorntail (Discosura langsdorffi)
- Rufous-breasted sabrewing (Campylopterus hyperythrus)
- Ruby-topaz hummingbird (Chrysolampis mosquitus)
- White-chinned sapphire (Chlorestes cyanus)

Wetland Dome

1) Mixed aviary

• Limpkin (Aramus guarauna)
• Sungrebe (Heliornis fulica)
• Western cattle egret (Bubulcus ibis)
• Capped heron (Pilherodius pileatus)
• Snowy Egret (Egretta thula)
• American darter or Anhinga (Anhinga anhinga)

2) Orinoco goose (Neochen jubata)

3) Neotropic cormorant or Olivaceous cormorant (Phalacrocorax brasilianus)

4) Wattled curassow (Crax globulosa) and Amazonian umbrellabird (Cephalopterus ornatus)

5) Amazon kingfisher (Chloroceryle amazona)

6) Wattled jacana (Jacana jacana) and American pygmy kingfisher (Chloroceryle aenea)

7) Walk-through indoor wetland, flooded forest and river island exhibit with boardwalk

• Castelnau's antshrike (Thamnophilus cryptoleucus)
• Parker's spinetail or White-breasted spinetail (Cranioleuca vulpecula)
• Lesser wagtail-tyrant (Stigmatura napensis)
• Pearly-breasted conebill (Conirostrum margaritae)
• Várzea piculet (Picumnus varzeae)
• Plum-throated cotinga (Cotinga maynana)
• Lesser hornero (Furnarius minor)
• Várzea Schiffornis, Várzea mourner or Greater Schiffornis (Schiffornis major)
• Hoary-throated spinetail (Synallaxis kollari)
• Várzea thrush (Turdus sanchezorum)

Amazonia walk-through aviary

• Ochre-winged Trumpeter ( Psophia ochroptera or Psophia crepitans ochroptera)
• American purple gallinule (Porphyrio martinicus)
• Great kiskadee (Pitangus sulphuratus)
• Boat-billed flycatcher (Megarynchus pitangua)
• White bellbird (Procnias albus)
• Vulturine parrot (Pyrilia vulturina)
• Santarém parakeet (Pyrrhura amazonum)
• Masked fruiteater (Pipreola pulchra)
• Capuchinbird or Calfbird (Perissocephalus tricolor)
• Purple-throated fruitcrow (Querula purpurata)
• Scarlet-banded barbet (Capito wallacei)
• Squirrel cuckoo (Piaya cayana)
• Golden-tufted mountain grackle or Golden-tufted grackle (Macroagelaius imthurni)
• Scaled pigeon (Patagioenas speciosa)
• White-crested guan (Penelope pileata)
• Sapphire quail-dove (Geotrygon saphirina)

Large macaw walk-through aviary

• Hyacinth macaw or Hyacinthine macaw (Anodorhynchus hyacinthinus)
• Scarlet macaw (Ara macao)
• Blue-and-gold macaw or Blue-and-yellow macaw (Ara ararauna)
• Razor-billed curassow (Mitu tuberosum)

Beni Savanna/Llanos de Moxos aviaries

1) Blue-throated macaw aviary

• Blue-throated macaw (Ara glaucogularis)
• Speckled chachalaca (Ortalis guttata)

2) Beni Savanna/Llanos de Moxos smaller bird aviary

• Rusty-collared seedeater (Sporophila collaris ochrascen)
• Streamer-tailed tyrant (Gubernetes yetapa)
• Hauxwell's thrush (Turdus hauxwelli)
• White-eyed attila or Dull-capped attila (Attila bolivianus)
• Undulated tinamou (Crypturellus undulatus)

Medium Parrot walk-through aviary

• Sun conure (Aratinga solstitialis)
• Hawk-headed parrot or Red-fan parrot (Deroptyus accipitrinus)
• Golden conure, Golden parakeet or Queen of Bavaria conure (Guaruba guarouba)
• Orange-winged amazon, Orange-winged parrot and Loro guaro (Amazona amazonica)
• Southern festive amazon (Amazona festiva)
• Dusky parrot or Dusky pionus (Pionus fuscus)
• Blue-throated piping guan (Pipile cumanensis)
• American comb duck (Sarkidiornis sylvicola)

Wings of Amazonia bird house

- Cuvier’s toucan (Ramphastos cuvieri) and Nocturnal curassow (Nothocrax urumutum)
- Ariel toucan (Ramphastos ariel) and Red-throated piping guan (Pipile cujubi)
- Belém curassow (Crax pinima)
- Gould's toucanet (Selenidera gouldii)
- Red-billed toucanet or Golden-collared toucanet (Selenidera reinwardtii)
- Tawny-tufted toucanet (Selenidera nattereri)
- Many-banded araçari (Pteroglossus pluricinctus)
- Eastern red-necked araçari or Brazilian red-necked araçari (Pteroglossus bitorquatus)
- Peach-fronted parakeet or Peach-fronted conure (Eupsittula aurea) and Little chachalaca (Ortalis motmot)
- Manu parrotlet or Amazonian parrotlet (Nannopsittaca dachilleae) and Starred wood quail (Odontophorus stellatus)
- Dusky-headed parakeet, Weddell's conure or Dusky-headed conure (Aratinga weddellii) and Marbled wood-quail (Odontophorus gujanensis)
- Amazonian motmot (Momotus momota)
- Amazonian royal flycatcher (Onychorhynchus coronatus) and Rufous-sided crake (Laterallus melanophaius)
- White-crowned manakin (Pseudopipra pipra)
- Lanceolated monklet (Micromonacha lanceolata)
- Chestnut-headed nunlet (Nonnula amaurocephala)
- Great jacamar (Jacamerops aureus)
- Chestnut-capped puffbird (Bucco macrodactylus)
- Gilded barbet (Capito auratus)
- Cream-colored woodpecker (Celeus flavus)
- Crimson-crested woodpecker (Campephilus melanoleucos)
- Orinoco piculet (Picumnus pumilus)
- Amazonian Oropendola (Psarocolius yuracares)
- Casqued cacique or casqued oropendola (Cacicus oseryi)

Small parrot walk-through aviary

• Crimson-bellied conure or Crimson-bellied parakeet (Pyrrhura perlata)
• Rose-fronted conure or Rose-fronted parakeet (Pyrrhura roseifrons)
• Black-headed caique or Black-headed parrot (Pionites melanocephalus)
• Brown-throated Parakeet (Eupsittula pertinax)
• Sapphire-rumped parrotlet (Touit purpuratus)
• White-winged parakeet or Canary-winged parakeet (Brotogeris versicolurus)
• Grey tinamou (Tinamus tao)
• Stripe-faced wood quail (Odontophorus balliviani)

Passerine walk-through aviary

• Striolated manakin or Western striped manakin (Machaeropterus striolatus)
• Red-crowned ant tanager (Habia rubica)
• Tawny-crowned greenlet (Tunchiornis ochraceiceps)
• Olive-backed foliage-gleaner (Automolus infuscatus)
• Long-winged antwren (Myrmotherula longipennis)
• Point-tailed palmcreeper (Berlepschia rikeri)
• Wedge-billed Woodcreeper (Glyphorynchus spirurus)
• Paradise tanager (Tangara chilensis)
• Opal-crowned tanager (Tangara callophrys)
• Bay-headed tanager (Tangara gyrola)
• Chestnut-crested antbird (Rhegmatorhina cristata)
• Peruvian recurvebill (Syndactyla ucayalae)
• Variegated tinamou (Crypturellus variegatus)

Large aviary loop

Maguari stork (Ciconia maguari) and Buff-necked ibis or White-throated ibis (Theristicus caudatus)

Wood stork (Mycteria americana) and Rufescent tiger heron (Tigrisoma lineatum)

Black-collared hawk (Busarellus nigricollis)

Lesser yellow-headed vulture (Cathartes burrovianus)

Great black hawk (Buteogallus urubitinga)

Roadside hawk (Rupornis magnirostris)

Hoatzin and macaw area

Hoatzin and macaw café and terraces

Mini macaw aviary

• Red-bellied macaw (Orthopsittaca manilatus)
• Chestnut-fronted macaw or Severe macaw (Ara severus)
• Blue-headed macaw or Coulon's macaw (Primolius couloni)
• Horned curassow or Southern helmeted curassow (Pauxi unicornis)

Hoatzin house and aviary

Hoatzin (Opisthocomus hoazin)

Ambassador bird collection and bird presentation area

Outdoor bird presentation area

Off-show outdoor bird training area

Ambassador bird collection building with indoor presentation area and ambassador bird indoor and outdoor exhibits

Ambassador bird collection:

- Roadside hawk (Rupornis magnirostris)
- Laughing falcon (Herpetotheres cachinnans)
- Red-legged seriema (Cariama cristata) and Guira cuckoo (Guira guira)
- Green-winged macaw (Ara chloropterus)
- Hawk-headed parrot or Red-fan parrot (Deroptyus accipitrinus) and Golden conure, Golden parakeet or Queen of Bavaria conure (Guaruba guarouba)
- Sun conure or Sun parakeet (Aratinga solstitialis) and Crimson-bellied conure or Crimson-bellied parakeet (Pyrrhura perlata)
- Toco toucan (Ramphastos toco)
- Guianan toucanet (Selenidera piperivora)
- White bellbird (Procnias albus) and Amazonian umbrellabird (Cephalopterus ornatus)
- Horned screamer (Anhima cornuta), Black-bellied whistling duck (Dendrocygna autumnalis) and Roseate spoonbill (Platalea ajaja)

Animal services building

With viewing windows into room with breeding aviaries, bird vet room, quarantine room, food prep and storage and enrichment prep and storage

Spare aviaries (on-show)

Off-show spare and breeding aviaries, indoor and outdoor

Further off-show animal services areas such as storage areas, staff rooms and offices for animal-related administration

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