Blank Park Zoo Blank Park Zoo Species List, 23 Sept 2023

[DesertTortoise]

Species List for Blank Park Zoo (Des Moines Iowa)

Date of Visit : September 23, 2023

Notes :
Species signed but not seen are italicized
Species seen but not signed are in red

Exhibits :

Free-roaming Inside The Zoo

• Indian peafowl

Parking Lot

• Domestic Bactrian camel, sarus crane

Discovery Center

• Springers damselfish, coral beauty, blotched foxface, yellow tang, Clarkii clownfish, purple dottyback
• Himalayan red panda
• White’s tree frog
• Madagascar hissing cockroach
• Unidentified Malagasy rainbowfish, unidentified freshwater angelfish
• Crested pigeon, nicobar pigeon, green-naped pheasant pigeon, pink-headed fruit dove, silver-eared mesia, white-cheeked turaco, emerald starling, Venezuelan troupial, silver-beaked tanager, Australian wood duck, domestic rock pigeon, Bali myna, green honeycreeper, pond slider
• Prehensile tailed skink
• Green iguana, assorted African cichlids
• Woma python
• Egyptian fruit bat, Jamaican fruit bat
• Green-and-black poison dart frog
• Yellow-banded poison dart frog
• Cuvier’s dwarf caiman, red-bellied piranha
• Unidentified pacu, unidentified plecostomus, hybrid redtail catfish, unidentified cichlid, unspecified freshwater stingray
• Diamondback terrapin
• Assorted lake Malawi cichlids
• Garibaldi, striped surfperch, unidentified rockfish X2, giant green anemone, strawberry anemone, several unidentified anemones, giant pink sea star, vermilion sea star
• Unidentified moray eel, assorted corals
• Long-spine porcupinefish, purple tang, yellow tang, vermillion grouper, orbiculate batfish, bignose unicorn tang, yellow-blotched angelfish, magnificent rabbitfish, sailfin tang, redtoothed triggerfish, bluering angelfish, Pakistani butterflyfish, blue tang, pennant butterflyfish, fivebar flagtail
• Cotton-top tamarin

Australia Adventure

• Eclectus parrot
• Walkthrough : Red-necked wallaby, black swan
  
• Domestic budgerigar
• Pilbara rock monitor
• Laughing kookaburra
• Southern cassowary
• Southern cassowary
• Tawny frogmouth, masked lapwing, blue-faced honeyeater
• Emu, red-necked wallaby

Kids’ Kingdom

• Trumpeter swan
• Domestic goat
• Domestic goat
• Llama
• Domestic pig
• Koi
• Empty exhibit
• Alpaca

Great Cats

• African lion
• African lion
• Amur tiger

Hub Harbor

• California sea lion, harbor seal

Jamaa Kwa Africa (Connection To Africa)

• Generic giraffe, addax, grey crowned crane, domestic guineafowl
• Hartmann’s mountain zebra
• Okapi, yellow-backed duiker, blue crane
• Eastern black rhinoceros
• Eastern black rhinoceros
• Red river hog
• Kori bustard
• Lowland nyala
• Speckled mousebird, bush thick-knee

Miscellaneous Exhibits

• Himalayan red panda
• Chilean flamingo
• North American river otter
• Aldabra giant tortoise
• Ring-tailed lemur, black-and-white ruffed lemur
• Magellanic penguin
• White-handed gibbon, cinereous vulture
• Japanese macaque
• Bald eagle

 

[Summer Tanager]

Thank you for posting this species list! And the photographs too! I like the collection of birds in the Discovery Center and your photographs show that many of the exhibits are large and well-planted. I was impressed with the Cassowary yards, the Giraffe/Addax exhibit, and the Okapi/Blue Crane/Yellow-backed Duiker exhibit. It looks like a great little zoo!