Are These in Captivity?

[Great Argus]

Is the king of Saxony bird of paradise in any collection?

what about the blood pheasant?

Fan-throated lizards?

Hoatzin?

King-of-Saxony is not kept.

I don't think there's any Blood Pheasant in public collections at least. Maybe privately but few if any.

The lizards wouldn't surprise me, though I can't find any confirmation currently.

Hoatzin has been kept historically, the only place that might have them currently is National Aviary of Colombia. I believe the bird they had has since died, another may have turned up in the meantime but I wouldn't count on it. The species just doesn't do well long-term in captivity.

 

[RatioTile]

Besides an aquaculture farm, where can I see a large captive Chinook salmon?

 

[Westcoastperson]

Besides an aquaculture farm, where can I see a large captive Chinook salmon?

Oregon Coast Aquarium has some in their Costal Waters Aquarium

 

[Great Argus]

Besides an aquaculture farm, where can I see a large captive Chinook salmon?

Salmon are less common in aquaria due to the tendency for shorter lifespans. They're still around though.

 

[The Cassowary]

Are royal spoonbills kept outside of Australia?

 

[Great Argus]

Are royal spoonbills kept outside of Australia?

None in NA or Europe afaik.

 

[BerdNerd]

Mountain Gorila?
White-Necked Rockfowl?
Gray Go-Away Bird?
Takahe?
Any vanga species?
Bobbit worms?

 

[DaLilFishie]

Bobbit worms?

Yes, but mostly not intentionally. They occasionally come in on live rock and can live for a long time in the rock undetected, especially in large tanks. When found they are normally removed because they will eat fish but a few keepers keep them in separate tanks. JAZA lists a holding of Bobbit Worm at Kushimoto Marine Park.

 

[Great Argus]

Mountain Gorila?

None. They are all lowlands.

White-Necked Rockfowl?

Historically yes, but no longer.

Gray Go-Away Bird?

There's a few about.

Takahe?

Yes, a couple places in NZ maintain them.

Any vanga species?

Sickle-billed was kept at Walsrode until recently, no others have been held. (At least outside Madagascar)

Bobbit worms

As has been mentioned, they usually come in incidentally. A couple places do display them though.

 

[vogelcommando]

End of the 1980s Wuppertal Zoo ( Germany ) made serious attemps to breed swallows in captivity and succesfully bred large numbers of Barn swallows ( even in the second generation ) and House martins.
During the same period Perth Zoo worked with the Welcome swallow and bred it also in some numbers.
I myself took care for both Barn swallow and House martin at Weltvogelpark Walsrode. In these cases it were rescued birds which were fallen out of the nest or from destroyed nests.

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Rescued House martin at Weltvogelpark Walsrode.

Found some additional information about the history of the Wuppertal barn swallows.
The orgin of the breeding-programm was the bad weather in the autumn of 1974. Because of this bad weather the public brought a large number of barn swallows to the zoo and a small number was kept alive and placed in a large aviary. Already in 1975 the first barn swallows were bred and from then on every year good numbers were bred.
1979 2 captive-bred swallows were released on the zoo-grounds and in 1980 wild barn swallows were found breeding in the elephant-house for the first time in decades ! Because the 1979-released birds had not been banded it was not known if the breeding-birds were the released birds of 1979.
1980 not only the wild-birds were succesfull, also the captive-colony raised no less the 12 young !

 

[Pertinax]

Found some additional information about the history of the Wuppertal barn swallows.
The orgin of the breeding-programm was the bad weather in the autumn of 1974. Because of this bad weather the public brought a large number of barn swallows to the zoo and a small number was kept alive and placed in a large aviary. Already in 1975 the first barn swallows were bred and from then on every year good numbers were bred.
1979 2 captive-bred swallows were released on the zoo-grounds and in 1980 wild barn swallows were found breeding in the elephant-house for the first time in decades ! Because the 1979-released birds had not been banded it was not known if the breeding-birds were the released birds of 1979.
1980 not only the wild-birds were succesfull, also the captive-colony raised no less the 12 young !

What and how were the Swallows fed- did they learn to take non-moving food?

 

[FBBird]

I’m told they easily learn to take inanimate food from a dish, as well as live insects


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