This was actually quite a while ago (two months)
Burgers' Zoo Burgers' Zoo 2021
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This was actually quite a while ago (two months)
Some smaller news:
New baby meerkats in the zoo
The summer nights action is active again! Meaning you can get tickets for 15:00 - 20:00. Which, in my opinion, is your best (and only) chance of seeing the Aardvarks in action.
(The only time seeing the Aardvarks awake for me was last year when this action was live, and I've been going there for 12 years)
New baby meerkats in the zoo
The summer nights action is active again! Meaning you can get tickets for 15:00 - 20:00. Which, in my opinion, is your best (and only) chance of seeing the Aardvarks in action.
(The only time seeing the Aardvarks awake for me was last year when this action was live, and I've been going there for 12 years)
JoJo22
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Wow, I guess I'm just lucky then, I have been to Burgers only twice in the past ten years, and I have seen the aardvarks roaming around both times.
I actually thought it would be a good zoo to see them active. Though I have to admit, the last time I was there they had gotten food from a keeper shortly beforehand, so I suppose if you are there around feeding time they might come out of hiding. 
Wow, I guess I'm just lucky then, I have been to Burgers only twice in the past ten years, and I have seen the aardvarks roaming around both times.
Vogelcommando is apparently similarly lucky (He says he's seen then every time he's visited). But again, I've only seen them walking around once
JoJo22
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Funny, I almost think many regular visitors have species that just won't show to them. For me, I have visited Duisburg Zoo quite regularly since my childhood, but until 2019, as far as i remember, i never saw a wombat, not even sleeping. I was already starting to believe it was just a sign on an empty enclosure.
After that, I have seen one both times I went there. But I'm getting a bit off-topic, I think. So don't give up, I'm sure the aardvarks will show themselves awake eventually
PicanBird
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Sorry to bump this up but due to covid the transport is being delayed. You can travel to China but there is a 1 month quarrantine requirement at the moment... Whenever this restriction is reduced it will be started. As the gorillas require constant care from keepers, they cant just be dropped of at the chinese border. (As a few chinese zookeepers will come by first to learn how to take care of these 5 males, and then a few dutch keepers will go along to china to help set up this group)
Since Friday the 30th, Burger's zoo has made 24 spots for electric cars on the parking lot, they are being partially fed by the solar panels on top of the safari meeting centre
Burgers’ Zoo realiseert plaatsing 12 laadpalen voor 24 elektrische auto’s
Burgers’ Zoo realiseert plaatsing 12 laadpalen voor 24 elektrische auto’s
Northern cardinals have for the second time this year a nest with chicks :
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Northern cardinals have for the second time this year a nest with chicks
How fun! I saw them building the nest on my last few visits!
Visited today, though it was a bit busy
The Gorilla viewing platform is open again, bird platform and caiman viewing in Bush are still closed though
Flamingos are in their enclosure again, I assume the black swan is also back in the wallaby enclosure (though I didn't check)
Might not be full news: But the crested bobwhites seem to have babies (?) I noticed smaller juveniles walking among the adult females
In general, the crested bobwhites are way more out and about, the male was screaming for a while, and very visible (got to take some great pictures!)
The Gorilla viewing platform is open again, bird platform and caiman viewing in Bush are still closed though
Flamingos are in their enclosure again, I assume the black swan is also back in the wallaby enclosure (though I didn't check)
Might not be full news: But the crested bobwhites seem to have babies (?) I noticed smaller juveniles walking among the adult females
In general, the crested bobwhites are way more out and about, the male was screaming for a while, and very visible (got to take some great pictures!)
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They have indeed recently had chicks.
Another update I forgot: The male Gambel's quail in Desert has been in the Burrowing owl aviary for a little while, now the greater roadrunner signage has been removed, and replaced with a new gambel's quail sign, in the same style as the other enclosure animal signs
PicanBird
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This is to the roadrunners raising a chick BTS (and another pair is aswell bts).
Argus pheasant chick is growing rapidly and is reunited with its father (was already with its mom)
PicanBird
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Turned out there were two born!
A baby zebra was born in the Safari region today, and it's adorable
GreatApeFan7
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GreatApeFan7
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On September 2nd, a Sri Lankan leopard (Panthera pardus kotiya) was born
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I had a lovely visit to Burgers' Zoo. Here are some thoughts that came up or observations I made (most of them don't qualify as news).
I was quite stoked to go the Mangrove which has been accumulating nice species for the last two years. The Crested bobwhite and the male Blue Ground Dove were as close to target species as it gets for me, as I had never seen either. However, my first visit was quite unsuccessful: the grassquits were all over the place and the doves were fair game too (though disappointingly I only saw female ground doves!), but I couldn't find any other free roamers. The second visit later in the afternoon was more successful as it produced sightings of Northern cardinal, a pair of ground doves and after a lot searching a brief glimpse of a bobwhite. The bobwhites actually have a very loud high pitched call which can be heard all over the Mangrove, but seeing them can be difficult! Also saw my first tropical gar.
The "new" primate exhibits seem to have grown in really well. I know the zoo enthusiast community was not particularly impressed when they were opened, but all things considered I think they are attractive exhibits that offer a lot of stimulation to their inhabitants. The squirrel monkey enclosure is undoubtedly the better of the two, as both the monkeys and the coatis make full use of the huge living trees inside it. While not as striking as the Mangrove, these exhibits would have fitted in perfectly in a Rimba or Safari-like setting.
I saw lots of new or updated signage. Maybe it was there also last year but if so I didn't notice it. The Bush in particular had several (for me) new high quality signs. It is also good to see that the zoo doesn't shy away from inconvenient topics like the catch of fish for aquaria and stereotypic behaviour.
The old Hispid cotton rat enclosure now has a sign for Merriams kangaroo rats, though I didn't see any. It is also signed in their old enclosure and I saw one in there. The cotton rats moved to the former rock squirrel enclosure a while ago. I also saw the white-winged wood ducks in the Bush but I couldn't locate the new pheasants.
Visitors need to book a time slot for the Ocean now. I choose the first one available and it was a great choice as the Ocean was still blissfully quiet, despite it being quite a busy day. I think I spend over an hour there today. I absolutely adore good fish/marine exhibits but only when it is somewhat quiet. A tip for those who share that trait!
Personally I'm very interested to see what will happen to the bird house in the next few years. I saw the Sumatran laughingthrush for the time and it is an absolute gem for the zoo! The tree frogs are also nice (finally another amphibian). The smallest bird cage is now filled with a rather striking "silent forest" exhibition, which I really liked. The Grey-winged trumpeter now lives together with a silkie chicken (along with the jays), and two (a pair?) of emerald doves is housed with the grosbeak starlings and orange-fronted fruit doves. There are also no roadrunners left on show. I have a hard time deciding whether the house is slowly being emptied out while kept as a functional exhibit for as long as possible, or whether they are simply dealing as best they can with an old-fashioned building and bird population that doesn't quite fit the collection plan anymore.
Other highlights of the day: 5 sun bears playing outside together, a very active pack of jackals, a party of three catbirds mobbing a sunbittern in the Bush and many primates being very vocal today (gibbons, siamangs and chimps). The new laughingthrush actually reacts strongly to the singing gibbons!
I was quite stoked to go the Mangrove which has been accumulating nice species for the last two years. The Crested bobwhite and the male Blue Ground Dove were as close to target species as it gets for me, as I had never seen either. However, my first visit was quite unsuccessful: the grassquits were all over the place and the doves were fair game too (though disappointingly I only saw female ground doves!), but I couldn't find any other free roamers. The second visit later in the afternoon was more successful as it produced sightings of Northern cardinal, a pair of ground doves and after a lot searching a brief glimpse of a bobwhite. The bobwhites actually have a very loud high pitched call which can be heard all over the Mangrove, but seeing them can be difficult! Also saw my first tropical gar.
The "new" primate exhibits seem to have grown in really well. I know the zoo enthusiast community was not particularly impressed when they were opened, but all things considered I think they are attractive exhibits that offer a lot of stimulation to their inhabitants. The squirrel monkey enclosure is undoubtedly the better of the two, as both the monkeys and the coatis make full use of the huge living trees inside it. While not as striking as the Mangrove, these exhibits would have fitted in perfectly in a Rimba or Safari-like setting.
I saw lots of new or updated signage. Maybe it was there also last year but if so I didn't notice it. The Bush in particular had several (for me) new high quality signs. It is also good to see that the zoo doesn't shy away from inconvenient topics like the catch of fish for aquaria and stereotypic behaviour.
The old Hispid cotton rat enclosure now has a sign for Merriams kangaroo rats, though I didn't see any. It is also signed in their old enclosure and I saw one in there. The cotton rats moved to the former rock squirrel enclosure a while ago. I also saw the white-winged wood ducks in the Bush but I couldn't locate the new pheasants.
Visitors need to book a time slot for the Ocean now. I choose the first one available and it was a great choice as the Ocean was still blissfully quiet, despite it being quite a busy day. I think I spend over an hour there today. I absolutely adore good fish/marine exhibits but only when it is somewhat quiet. A tip for those who share that trait!
Personally I'm very interested to see what will happen to the bird house in the next few years. I saw the Sumatran laughingthrush for the time and it is an absolute gem for the zoo! The tree frogs are also nice (finally another amphibian). The smallest bird cage is now filled with a rather striking "silent forest" exhibition, which I really liked. The Grey-winged trumpeter now lives together with a silkie chicken (along with the jays), and two (a pair?) of emerald doves is housed with the grosbeak starlings and orange-fronted fruit doves. There are also no roadrunners left on show. I have a hard time deciding whether the house is slowly being emptied out while kept as a functional exhibit for as long as possible, or whether they are simply dealing as best they can with an old-fashioned building and bird population that doesn't quite fit the collection plan anymore.
Other highlights of the day: 5 sun bears playing outside together, a very active pack of jackals, a party of three catbirds mobbing a sunbittern in the Bush and many primates being very vocal today (gibbons, siamangs and chimps). The new laughingthrush actually reacts strongly to the singing gibbons!