Chester Zoo crane chick

[bongorob]

A West African crowned crane has hatched at Chester.

ZooBorns: Chester Zoo Welcomes a Lanky Crane Chick

 

[Zoophile]

What a beautiful Chick. Reminds me of the Red-Crowned Crown chick (now two years old) at Paignton Zoo when he/she was a babe.

 

[EvilKittie]

hmm is this their first one?

 

[ableiman]

Others in the UK?

A commenter on ZooBorns said this wasn't the first one to be born in the UK. We took that from the press release but would be interested to know if that wasn't actually the case. Does anyone know for certain?

 

[Bele]

I am fairly sure that Chester has been breeding this species successfully for a number of years .

 

[bongorob]

Rode Bird Gardens first bred this species in the UK in 1979.

Chester breeding history

1990 2 (1 DNS)
1991 4 (2 DNS)
1996 3 (1 DNS)
1997 0.2.3 (3 DNS)
1998 3 (1 DNS)
1999 (1 DNS)
2000 6 (3 DNS)
2001 (2 DNS)
2002 5 (1 DNS)
2003 (1 DNS)
2004 3
2005 3 (2 DNS)
2006 6 (1 DNS)
2007 3 (1 DNS)
2009 1


47 chicks hatched at Chester. Incidentally Chester is supposedly the furtest north that this species will breed in Europe.

 

[ableiman]

Interesting. I'll let the poor Chester Zoo PR girl know that she was wrong... at least 47 times worth.