Ivo Katrafilov
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I'm building a small butterfly pavilion for educational center. I want to have and some birds such Chloebia gouldiae and/or other seed eaters. Has anyone seen a similar combination? Is it safe for the butterflies?
Birds in butterfly pavilion?
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Paul.Haerle
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Several zoos have birds in their butterfly pavilions like Burger‘s Zoo, Wildlands Emmen or the Wilhelma.
Seed eaters should all work. Other birds that work are tanagers, Crested Partridges, bobwhites, peacock-pheasants, quails, ducks, all kinds of doves and pigeons, turacos, honeycreepers and sunbirds.
Seed eaters should all work. Other birds that work are tanagers, Crested Partridges, bobwhites, peacock-pheasants, quails, ducks, all kinds of doves and pigeons, turacos, honeycreepers and sunbirds.
Melbourne Zoo keeps Rose-crowned Fruit Doves in their Butterfly House.
At the old site Bristol zoo succesfully bred Black-Naped Fruit Dove several times in their butterfly house. They also had for a while a Victoria Crowned Pigeon. I would guess many of the strict frugivores would do OK in a butterfly house. Many seedeaters though will feed their young on insects which might cause a problem, although the distasteful butterfly species like heliconius species and danaiids should also be OK.
Bird/Butterfly mixes in the Netherlands:
- Artis: Socorro dove (formerly)
- Burgers: Blue ground dove, West Peruvian dove, Scaled pigeon, Crested bobwhite, Violaceous euphonia, Red-legged honeycreeper, Bay-headed tanager, Blue-backed grassquit, Ruddy-breasted seed-eater and Indigo bunting. Fulvous whistling-duck (Formerly)
- Wildlands: Eastern superb fruit dove, Fischer's turaco, Red-legged honeycreeper and Palawan peacock-pheasant. Crested wood partridge (formerly), Black-naped fruit dove (Formerly)
- De Orchideeënhoeve: Crested wood partridge, Asian blue quail, Japanese quail, Island canary, African silverbill, Gouldian finch, Long-tailed finch, Star finch, Red-collared widowbird
