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Razor-billed Curassow - Melbourne Zoo April 2013

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Melbourne Zoo April 2013

This female is the last of her species (even her Family) in Australasia, and shares a large aviary with a pair of Blue and Yellow Macaws. She was feeding in this empty pond, which made her quite hard to see as there is a hedge around the exhibit so you kind of have to climb up the fence a bit to see down to where she is.
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Melbourne Zoo April 2013

This female is the last of her species (even her Family) in Australasia, and shares a large aviary with a pair of Blue and Yellow Macaws. She was feeding in this empty pond, which made her quite hard to see as there is a hedge around the exhibit so you kind of have to climb up the fence a bit to see down to where she is.
 
FBBird
Razor-billed Curassow

Australia will not allow birds into the country, ostensibly to prevent introduction of disease or potentially alien species. This has had the good result that Australian aviculture had good self-sustaining stocks of [for example] Cuban Finches & Red Hooded Siskins long before the rest of the world.
The bad news is that there are many species that many Australians will never see, and no new species will ever be available.
Hence, the last Cracid...
 
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FBBird said:
Australia will not allow birds into the country, ostensibly to prevent introduction of disease or potentially alien species. This has had the good result that Australian aviculture had good self-sustaining stocks of [for example] Cuban Finches & Red Hooded Siskins long before the rest of the world.
The bad news is that there are many species that many Australians will never see, and no new species will ever be available.
Hence, the last Cracid...
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It is sad, the range of birds missing from Australia is huge, although Australia's diverse native bird fauna means that many more orders and families are viewable here than in New Zealand. Other major groups missing include hornbills, toucans and turacos, and flamingoes and cracids will be gone very soon too.
 
FBBird
Razor-billed Curassow

A pity that zoos and private aviculturists in australia should be denied Touracos, which are almost the perfect aviary & zoo bird -- colourful, big enough to see, active & not unduly complicated to keep and breed.
 

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