Tierpark Cottbus European first breeding saddle-billed stork

I'm really surprised it took this long. American zoos started breeding them 20 years ago.
 
jbnbsn99 said:
I'm really surprised it took this long. American zoos started breeding them 20 years ago.
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I too thought that these wonderful birds would have bred before now in Europe - I hope more can be bred and the species can grow in numbers, they're one of the nicest looking storks there is :D
 
Where the birds at Cottbus kept fully winged? They ARE fantastic birds, that I can remember seeing dotted around the UK as a boy. Hopefully Blackbrook can follow suit.
 
I think the Cottbus birds are fully winged from memory but could be wrong! They have great breeding results with Marabous and other storks, most of which breed in heated winter quarters!
 
filipinos said:
Are you sure of this? I think i´ve heard they were bred before... they aren´t rare.
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I ´m 99,9% sure that vogelcommando is right about this success to be the first in Europe. Unless some small private collection had some chicks and never publicized it.

I know that Dvur was near a similar success 2 years ago, but their male died due to an accident.
 
Fully winged and closed off indoor and heated breeding area is perhaps the best set up for these shy birds. Excellent result!
 
OK Cottbus was also the first in Europe but what about America. If I remember right St. Louis eas first but which other collections have bred saddle-billed storks and how regulary are they bred in America ?
Has it also alsready been bred in Asia ?
 
from the studbook: http://library.sandiegozoo.org/studbooks/birds/saddlebilledstork2003.pdf
Successful reproduction of this species world wide did not occur until 1994 when the
Dallas Zoo hatched its first chick, a male. The Dallas Zoo continued to be the only zoo to
reproduce this species until 1999 when the Audubon Species Survival Center hatched its first
chick. The Toledo Zoo hatched its first chicks in 2000. The San Diego Wild Animal Park
hatched its first chicks in November of 2001 and was the first to fledge a clutch of three chicks
in 2002. The Kansas City Zoo achieved its first breeding of this species early in 2003. Dallas,
Audubon SSC, Toledo and San Diego Wild Animal Park continue to reproduce yearly.
It is notable that chicks have only been produced by pairs with non-pinioned, fullyflighted
males.
No second generation breeding of this species has occurred.
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From the entries it doesn't look like St. Louis had bred them (as of 2003).
 
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