Did you happen to notice if either the blue-eared pheasants or white-eared pheasants were on display? They would be in one of the aviaries in the same row as the grouse outside the bird house.
They rotate between the off-show section near the condors (you can see it if you peek through a gap in the fence) and one of the aviaries outside the bird house.
White eared pheasants were in one of the old, free-standing cages that pepper the zoo (sharing with some red-billed blue magpie, I think).
Blue eared pheasants also on display - but I'll need to check where.
Pedantic punctuation point....
Incidentally, these pheasants are sometimes listed as "white-eared", "blue-eared" etc - with the hyphen - but their "ears" are always white - it is the rest of the pheasant that is blue, brown or - in differentiation - white. So, the hyphen is erroneous. In the HBW they are described as "blue eared-pheasant" and so on.....
That is interesting about the white-eared pheasants. I think the cage that they must have been displayed in is the one opposite the entrance to the indoor area of the rhino house which red-billed blue magpie + a different pheasant species that regularly changes. (I have seen Indian peafowl, silver pheasants, golden pheasants etc. previously).
That is interesting about the white-eared pheasants. I think the cage that they must have been displayed in is the one opposite the entrance to the indoor area of the rhino house which red-billed blue magpie + a different pheasant species that regularly changes. (I have seen Indian peafowl, silver pheasants, golden pheasants etc. previously).
That aviary currently has a pair of curassows - bare-faced, I think - along with the red-billed blue magpies.
The white eared-pheasants are in a larger cage, on the path between the Elephant House and the Bird House.
I've checked the current location of the blue eared-pheasants: they're in one of the rows of pheasant aviaries with, I think, some form of domestic pigeons, or possibly a turtle dove of some sort.
I have uploaded pictures of both the white and blue eared-pheasants.
