am following this website about the Waldrapp / Northern Bald Ibis restoriation using paraglides to guide young birds on migration. I am very surprised that big and colorful bird in the densely populated Europe is not more popular. There is not many more completely locally extinct species at...
This is a thread about zoo birds, not wild birds living on zoo grounds.
Several zoos in Europe keep free-flying colonies of White Storks, which partially helped recovery of this species in Western Europe in the late 20. century. Are there any other examples when zoos established colonies of...
This big aviary was revamped to be re-opened in 2015. It houses northern bald ibisses, Rüppel's vultures, hammerhead, marabous stork and black crowned crane. I didn't see the last two species during my latest visit, but I have seen a marabou stork last year. It also housed Eurasian black vultures.