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Keeping up with every single species at the DWA can drive you crazy, so I listed every animal that was signed or I saw, excluding the fish in the aquarium section, which I can come back for another time. Each space marks a different exhibit.
 
Entrance Area/ Miscellaneous
Lesser BOP
Pesquet's Parrot

Raggiana BOP
Woompoo Fruit Dove
Western Crowned Pigeon
Jambu Fruit Dove

Argus Pheasant
Moluccan Cockatoo

Australian Lungfish
Unsigned Arrowana

Asian Arrowana
Unsigned Arrowana
Giant Red Fin Gourami

Banded Archerfish (In pond directly before of admissions)

Unsigned Turtle (In pond under bridge)

Rhinoceros Hornbill

Bali Mynah
Luzon Bleeding Heart Dove

Red BOP

Matschie's Tree Kangaroo

Blue Throated Macaws (Above stairs into Orinoco Area)

Blue Penguin

Tyrant Hawk Eagle (Above cafe)

Green Naped Pheasant Pigeon
Red Tailed Black Cockatoo

Shoebill
African Green Pigeon
Great Blue Turaco
Lady Ross Turaco
Fisher's Turaco
Red Billed Pintail
East Yellow Bill Hornbill

Palm Cockatoo
Victoria Crowned Pheasant
 
Keeping up with every single species at the DWA can drive you crazy, so I listed every animal that was signed or I saw, excluding the fish in the aquarium section, which I can come back for another time. Each space marks a different exhibit.
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Sorry about long neglecting this thread, I had lost my original list and haven't visited in a while, but will now give the much needed updates to this thread.

Everything in the entry is the same except the rhinoceros hornbills have been replaced with oriental pied hornbill, and unsigned turtle has been replaced with fly river turtle.

Starting in the Orinoco free flight (These are just the birds I could find, there are definitely more):
Scarlet Headed Black Bird
Crimson Rumped Toucanet
Green Aracari
Roseate Spoonbill
Chestnut Eared Aracari
Guira Cuckoo
Red Crested Cardinal
Troupial
Yellow Rumped Cacique
Red Rumped Cacique
Screaming Piha
Crested Oropendola
Scarlet Ibis
Puerto Rican Woodpecker
Green Oropendola
Chiloe Wigeon
Orinoco Goose
Black Bellied Whistling Duck
Southern Pochard
Rosy Billed Pochard
Ringed Teal

In the Small Exhibit to the right as you enter:
Antillean Euphonia
Swallow Tanager
Little Tinamou
Scaled Pigeon
Golden Headed Manakin
Golden Collared Manakin
Red Capped Manakin
Spangled Cotinga

In the Large Exhibit to the left as you enter:
Giant Anteater
Giant Wood Rail
Northern Helmeted Currasow
Pale Mandibled Aracari
Toco Toucan
Troupial
Yellow Crowned Night Heron
Boat Billed Heron
Montezuma Oropendola

If you take a left towards the exit sign, you can get a close look at an unsigned exhibit which contains:
Golden Crested Quetzal
Fiery Billed Aracari
Purple Throated Fruitcrow
Ruddy Ground Dove
Chiriqui Quail Dove
White Tailed Trogon
Blue Crowned Motmot

Following the path, in a small glass exhibit to your left:
Pied Tamarin

In the island to your right:
White Faced Saki Monkey

In the opening to your left after the tamarin enclosure:
Giant River Otter

As you approach the sloth forest, there is a small glass exhibit to your right:
Pygmy Marmoset

In the chained off toucan nursery there are:
Red Breasted Toucan

In an open air tree exhibit:
Brown Throated Three Toed Sloth

In a chained exhibit to the right of the sloth:
Emperor Tamarin
Black Throated Emerald Toucanet
Black Necked Aracari

In a tall cylindrical exhibit above:
Venezuelan Red Howler Monkey
Northern Helmeted Currasow

In a pool below you as you leave the sloth forest:
Orinoco Crocodile
Red Bellied Piranha

In a tall cylindrical exhibit at the end of the bridge:
Long Wattled Umbrella Bird
Keel Billed Toucan
Many Banded Aracari
Andean Cock of the Rock (And scarlet ssp)
Guinean Cock of the Rock
Nocturnal Currasow
Capuchin Bird

As you descend the ramp and pass the otters there is a small exhibit to your left:
Dyeing Poison Frog
Yellow Banded Poison Dart Frog

Straight ahead there is a tank with curved glass:
Caiman Lizard

In a ditch to the side:
Red Footed Tortoise

In a large fenced in exhibit above the caiman lizards:
Andean Cock of the Rock
Capuchin Bird
Blue Crowned Motmot

In a medium sized exhibit to the right:
Golden Lion Tamarin
Fiery Billed Aracari
Plate Mountain Toucanet
Wattled Guan
(Signed but nowhere to be seen) Pale Winged Trumpeter

In two exhibits to the right as you pass into the ground level of Orinoco:
Yellow Headed Amazon

Emerald Tree Boa

In an incline down to a large tank:
Green Anaconda
Discus
Tetra

In a cave network of exhibits:
Goliath Bird Eater

Pink Toed Turantula

Red Tailed Boa

Dwarf Caiman (Growing quite large now)

Vampire Bat

As you exit this area, there is a small pond and a few exhibits with:
Electric eel

Yellow Spotted Amazon Turtle
Polka Dot Stingray
Silver Arrowana

Aquatic Cecillian

As you turn, you enter a vast cave network with:
Veriscolor barbet
Ruddy Ground Dove

Hawk Headed Parrot

Razorbill Currasow
Toco Toucan

Wattled Currasow
Hoffman's Two Toed Sloth

Curl Crested Aracari
Elegant Crested Tinamou

As You descend there are a variety of tanks (including the one in the theatre):
Clouded archerfish
Fly River Turtle
Discus

Budgett's Frog (Off exhibit)

Green and Black Dart Frog
Blue Dart Frog

Antillean Manatee
Arapaima
Red Tailed Catfish
Arrau Turtle
Fork Snouted Catfish
Spotted Shovel Nosed Catfish

Again, I apologize for neglecting this thread and taking so long to update it, I will upload this list in chunks, including fish.
 
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Aquarium Section (A few fish may be missing, as well as some invertebrates, some of the signs were not working):
Moon Jelly

Flashlight Fish
Splitfin Flashlight Fish
Racoon Butterflyfish
Mystery Wrasse

Wide Banded Anemonefish
McCulloch's Clownfish
Comb Wrasse
Painted Goldie
Spectacled Angelfish
Bluestreak Cleaner Wrasse
Green Chromis

Potbelly Sea Horse

Leafy Sea Dragon
Weedy Sea Dragon
Tasseled Anglerfish

Spotted Dragonet

Cinnamon Clownfish
Lyretail Anthias
Pink Skunk Clownfish

Blue Assessor
Yellow Assessor
Copperband Butterflyfish
Lawnmower Blenny
Yellow Candy Hogfish
Blue Hippo Tang
Emperor Angelfish
Green Spotted Dragonet
Mandarin Dragonet
Six Line Wrasse
Percula Clownfish
Marginalis butterflyfish

Giant Pacific Octopus

Blackeye Goby
Tube Snout
China Rockfish
Grunt Sculpin
Sailfin
Monkeyface Pickleback

Ribboned Sea Dragon
Pipefish sp.

Mitratus Butterflyfish
Weedy Scorpionfish
Evan's Anthias
Moorish Idol
Napoleon Wrasse
Gem Tang
Powder Blue Tang
Zebra Angelfish

Japanese Spider Crab
Spot Prawn
Longspine Snipefish

Orange Skunk Clownfish
Bellus Lyretail Angelfish
Banggai Cardinalfish
Bar Goby
Black Ocellaris Clownfish
Aiptasia Eating Filefish
Chocolate Surgeonfish
Many-Banded Pipefish
Blue Assessor
Fathead Anthias
Pacific-Blue-Striped Pipefish
Six Line Wrasse

Pacific-Blue-Striped Pipefish
Janss' Pipefish

Moorish Idol
Powder Brown Tang
Blotchy Anthias
Wrought Iron Butterflyfish
Japanese Angelfish
Blue Lined Angelfish
Japanese Swallowtail Angelfish
Splendid Garden Eel
Spotted Garden Eel

The large coral reef tank with a tunnel going through it is empty due to renovations

Madagascar:
Rock Hyrax
Fischer's Turaco

African Black Footed Penguins

Madagascar Big Headed Turtle

Madagascan Giant Day Gecko
Tomato Frog

Unsigned Day Gecko

Unsigned mantella species

Blue Bellied Roller

Radiated Tortoise
 
Mundo Maya- Exit:
After the aquarium area there is a series of exhibits in a cave themed region:
Brown Basilisk
Cane Toad

Red Eared Slider
Jaguar Cichlid
Jack Dempsey Cichlid

Bark Scorpion

Helmeted Iguana

Panamanian Golden Toad

Mexican Blind Cave Fish

Eastern Screech Owl

Desert Hare
Burrowing Owl

Axolotl

Brittle Star
Pencil Urchin
Ocellated Moray Eel
Blackbar Soldierfish

Brown Shark
Southern Stingray
Spotted Eagle Ray
Goliath Grouper
Bonnethead Shark
Black Nosed Shark
Freshwater Sawfish
White Spotted Guitarfish

Flame Cardinalfish
Clarion Angelfish
Longspine Urchin
Pencil Urchin
Blue Chromis
Brown Chromis
Rock Urchin
Bluespotted Jawfish
Black Cap Basslet
Scrawled Filefish

Grey Angelfish
Jewel Damsel
Blue Angelfish
Sergeant Major Damsel
Reef Butterflyfish
Halichoeres Bivittatus
Royal Gramma
Neon Yellow Head Wrasse
Pencil Urchin
Beau Gregory Damsel
Bluehead Wrasse
Blue Tang
Clown Wrasse
Spanish Hogfish
Cherub Angelfish
Black Durgon
Blue Chromis
Brown Chromis
Harlequin Bass

Lined Seahorse

Pygmy Seahorse

Graham's Alligator Lizard

Fer De Lance

Eyelash Viper
Blue Spiny Lizard

Middle American Rattlesnake

Beaded Lizard

Barred Owl

Seba's Short Tailed Bat

Red Eyed Tree Frog

Leaving the Cave theme:
Morelet's Crocodile
Mexican Musk Turtle

Painted Box Turtle

Unknown Slider

Scarlet Macaws

Ornate Hawk Eagle

Crested Eagle

Jaguar

Harpy Eagle

Central American Agouti
Spectacled Owl
Occelated Turkey

American Flamingo

Jabiru Stork

Free Flight:
Anna's Hummingbird
Giant Hummingbird
Black Chinned Hummingbird
Silver Beaked Tanager
White Tailed Trogon
Spangled Cotinga
Red Legged Honeycreeper
Green and Gold Tanager
Yellow Green Grosbeak
Acorn Woodpecker
Yellow Rumped Cacique
 
Fantastic list, thank you for posting! It is indeed a facility that is crammed with diverse and unusual specimens!
 
Update:
In the small exhibit to the right as you enter Orinoco:
Now houses guianan red cotingas

In the golden lion tamarin enclosure:
Definitely no pale winged trumpeters
Blue banded toucanet (Thank you to jayjds)

In the cave to mundo maya:
Now houses a blue spiny lizard

Leaving cave theme into mundo maya:
Another red tail boa exhibit

Freeflight mundo maya:
Black tailed trogon? (Was told it's in there by keeper, couldn't find it among many white tailed trogon)
Golden headed manakin
Red legged honeycreeper
Swallow tanager
Sparkling violetear
Blue Crowned motmot
Rufous hummingbird
Burnished Buff Tanager (Another thank you to jayjds)
(This list will definitely grow, still trying to identify birds)
 
It's amazing to me how many species are in the free flight area of Mundo Maya, both times I visited I think I did not see a single one!
 
Starting in the Orinoco free flight
We also found a Chiriqui quail dove here.
If you take a left towards the exit sign, you can get a close look at an unsigned exhibit which contains:
This no longer has ruddy quail dove, but we did find an unsigned Ramphocelus tanager.
As you exit this area, there is a small pond and a few exhibits with:
Yellow Spotted Amazon Turtle
This exhibit also held savanna side-necked turtle, though unsigned.
As You descend there are a variety of tanks (including the one in the theatre):
Clouded archerfish
Boseman’s rainbowfish was also kept in this tank.
Pacific-Blue-Striped Pipefish
Janss' Pipefish
And flamboyant cuttlefish.
Free Flight:
Anna's Hummingbird
In addition, a staff member informed us ruby-throated hummingbird was kept here, while we spotted a silver-throated tanager for a second. In addition, I identified some of the birds we saw as Passerini’s tanager and blue-necked tanager.
It's amazing to me how many species are in the free flight area of Mundo Maya, both times I visited I think I did not see a single one!
The strategy @d1am0ndback and I used was to head straight to the Mundo Maya window from Cafe Maya. We spent at least 30 minutes searching for as many birds as we could find. Several of them we spotted for just a sliver of a second before they vanished- and that was early in the morning before visitors got there! Later in the day it was much more challenging.
 
The jaguar have been replaced by ocelot (I'm sure that's not news to most of you)

Unsigned turtles which I believe to be black marsh turtles Siebenrockiella crassicollis, can be seen in the pond the bridge in Borneo goes over.

I saw black tailed trogon on exhibit, it was in the golden headed quetzal cage between Orinoco freeflight and Mundo Maya.

Helmeted iguana is back on exhibit, and the graham's alligator lizards have moved to the opening area of the Mundo Maya (Where you exit the "aquarium" part and enter a cave). An unsigned frog species (I believe to be Mexican leaf frog, Pachymedusa dacnicolor) has taken the place of the alligator lizards.

Desert cottontail are back on exhibit with the burrowing owls.
 
How come DWA is the only zoological institution in the US to have Jabirus? I'm surprised considering how they are such a flagship species for the Pantanal in Brazil and the fact that they are the tallest flying bird in the Americas along with the Whooping Crane. I know they're classified "Least Concern" under IUCN but still!
 
How come DWA is the only zoological institution in the US to have Jabirus? I'm surprised considering how they are such a flagship species for the Pantanal in Brazil and the fact that they are the tallest flying bird in the Americas along with the Whooping Crane. I know they're classified "Least Concern" under IUCN but still!
Migratory Bird Treaty Act, lack of interest by zoos, range country wildlife export restrictions, import costs, lack of breeding once they’re actually here. Pick your poison...
 
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