Oregon coast aquarium has wild belted kingfisher
for the grebes you will need to be more specific on the species
Are These in Captivity? #2
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for the grebes you will need to be more specific on the species
How about Horned Grebe and Red-Necked Grebe for starters?
Montreal Biodome I think still has Red-necked. Afaik only Pied-billed is/has been held otherwise, I'm not certain whether any are currently around.
Biggest problem is they essentially never take non-moving fish, and thus are rather difficult to feed properly and sufficiently. Pied-billed is also a bug-eater, likely contributing to the sporadic success.
Far as grebes go, I just remembered a couple places in Europe & Asia keep the Little Grebe. Seemingly successfully, though I haven't heard of any breeding.
Some zoos do breed it consistently like Zoo Dresden. Many others, like Zoo Prague, get young birds from such good breeders, keept them for few months but never manage to get them breed.
I would suspect they may be, given they include insects, crayfish, and whatnot in the dirt rather than just fish. Same reason I speculated Pied-billed Grebe seems to do ok. Might dig around and see if I can find some reports and studies on captive grebes.
Black-necked Grebe do reasonably well in captivity too 
Black-necked Grebe do reasonably well in captivity too
But they're only held at two collections in Europe, as the Oasi di Sant Alessio don't have them anymore.
Are they bred in good numbers by private collections?
Taronga Zoo had/has Australasian Grebe. I think of one the collections in the Northern Territory (either Alice Springs or Territory Wildlife Park) have them as well but I know for certain I saw one at Taronga in 2019: Australasian Grebe (Tachybaptus novaehollandiae) - ZooChat
Black-necked Grebe do reasonably well in captivity too
Interesting, I hadn't heard of the species being kept before. Do they breed at all do you know?
They are, I believe
there's a few private places with them to the best of my knowledge. Wouldn't be surprised if Walsrode still have the species too, as people have an unfortunate tendency to remove species from their ZTL page if they are a no-show or not labelled anywhere.
They are, I believe
A very bad habit, especially when it comes to Walsrode, with the species changing from on to off-show or vice versa on a monthly basis. Do they publish stocklist sometimes?
They don't - I spent a very enjoyable afternoon some time ago updating the ZTL listings and making them fully accurate after I was provided with a then-current stocklist by someone with ZIMS access, was thanked by the ZTL admins, only to be scolded by the ZTL admins several days later after Walsrode complained to them that an accurate stocklist was visible to the public
cue all my work being reverted and the listings being actively made inaccurate (including moving species back into current holdings which had left the collection years before).So I think we can be fairly certain that Walsrode would be loathe to publish a stocklist anytime soon given said reaction
They don't - I spent a very enjoyable afternoon some time ago updating the ZTL listings and making them fully accurate after I was provided with a then-current stocklist by someone with ZIMS access, was thanked by the ZTL admins, only to be scolded by the ZTL admins several days later after Walsrode complained to them that an accurate stocklist was visible to the public
So I think we can be fairly certain that Walsrode would be loathe to publish a stocklist anytime soon given said reaction
When did you do that ? Is it a recent stocklist?
I don't understand why they wouldn't want it to be published/used, I mean, they sould be proud of their collection given how unique and complete it is.
Onychorhynchus coronatus
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Not sure if this has been asked already but is the honey guide kept by any zoo ?
None in Europe, and they never established themselves in the past. In 1957/1958 both London and Frankfurt had some but that's it.
Onychorhynchus coronatus
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Not easy to establish as they are brood parasites. Are any brood parasitic species established in captivity?
Onychorhynchus coronatus
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Golden eye duck , giant cowbird, black headed duck ?
Probably a few others too.