Burgers' Zoo free-ranging species in Burgers Bush, Desert and Mangrove

LARTIS said:
And not to forget the garden banded snails (capaea hortensis) that are often confused by several visitors thinking they found an exotic snail species. Sorry;)
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There are some actual exotic snail species in the Bush though, including a Subulina spec. the garden snails are natives that found there way in, just like the house sparrows...
 
Never knew they had like 4+ frog species in the bush. Sadly there is no place you can get a guarantee on spotting them. I often look for them on the adventure route and the area near the caiman. (Still no idea why that area is closed off. Bird safety I guess?)
 
LARTIS said:
I just checked and found out they at least kept and depending on how old they were, if they made it and if they breed, may still keep at least one American (green) treefrog species (seen next to the exit of the caiman aviary) and two or three poison dart frog species.

Zootierliste named some, but may not be complete.

The Zoo releseased some over the years, but some could be of a different origin since some vistors might try to get rid of some pets every here and then. That happens quiet often at zoos.
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I hardly doubt the have 4+ frog species in the Bush. In 2013 the zoo kept a total of 4 amphibian species, which for sure consisted of Montserrat whistling frog, Amazon milk frog and Colorado toad. Which leaves one extra amphibian, which will have been kept in the Bush, this will either have been a tree frog or a poison dart frog. Maybe this species is still present and I very much doubt any new species have purposefully been added, as this goes normally accompanied by some sort of press release.
 
lintworm said:
I hardly doubt the have 4+ frog species in the Bush. In 2013 the zoo kept a total of 4 amphibian species, which for sure consisted of Montserrat whistling frog, Amazon milk frog and Colorado toad. Which leaves one extra amphibian, which will have been kept in the Bush, this will either have been a tree frog or a poison dart frog. Maybe this species is still present and I very much doubt any new species have purposefully been added, as this goes normally accompanied by some sort of press release.
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We can always ask the zoo itself. They should have a list of species they released in there right?
 
lintworm said:
There are some actual exotic snail species in the Bush though, including a Subulina spec. the garden snails are natives that found there way in, just like the house sparrows...
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Thanks for the information.
Do you know of any other species?

I am quiet sure that the frogs i have seen were poison dart frogs, eventhough it was quiet dark, they hopped different than the Montserrat frogs. Shorter distances.

Someone even said they saw a toad in the bush, most likely a native species but i have not seen one myself.

The tree frog looked like an american tree frog, or maybe glassfrog.

I think that happens quiet often to the zoos that people try to get rid of their pets.

And the bush is huge and some of them may remain unrecognized a long time.
 
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Some updates from today's visit:

BUSH

The leafbird and African darter are still going strong :)

The smaller turtle species in with the capybara are not Pond turtles but Asian leaf turtle (Cyclemys dentata). I removed the arowana, pitta and Bornean river turtle from the list, as they are not longer present.

DESERT

They now keep a scorpion again in the tunnel, a Arizona desert hairy scorpion (Hadrurus arizonensis)

MANGROVE

Several cichlid species were added to the manatee tank: Pantano cichlid (Cincelichtys pearsei), Blue-eyed cichlid (Archocentrus spilurus), Firemouth cichlid (Thorichthys meeki) and Salvin's cichlid (Cichlasoma salvini).

No bird species seem to have been added yet this year.
 
lintworm said:
Some updates from today's visit:

BUSH

The leafbird and African darter are still going strong :)

The smaller turtle species in with the capybara are not Pond turtles but Asian leaf turtle (Cyclemys dentata). I removed the arowana, pitta and Bornean river turtle from the list, as they are not longer present.

DESERT

They now keep a scorpion again in the tunnel, a Arizona desert hairy scorpion (Hadrurus arizonensis)

MANGROVE

Several cichlid species were added to the manatee tank: Pantano cichlid (Cincelichtys pearsei), Blue-eyed cichlid (Archocentrus spilurus), Firemouth cichlid (Thorichthys meeki) and Salvin's cichlid (Cichlasoma salvini).

No bird species seem to have been added yet this year.
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I assume the new bird species will come once the birdflu quarrantaine has been lifted. As the whistling ducks are also behind the scenes.

The sign in the mangrove also removed the four-eyed fish.
 
Based off a video on their Facebook it appears that there are still yellow legged honeycreepers in the Bush
 
Updates from today's visit:
Desert: blue-winged teal have been added to the freeroaming area. I saw at least one; either a female or eclipse male.

Mangrove: there are now two fulvous whistling-ducks on-show again, and a new species for the zoo is indigo bunting, of which we saw a juvenile (so probably from this year). We didn't see any adults but I assume those will still be present. Burgers' zoo now has three of the species in this genus, as they already had painted and rose-bellied!
 
Vision said:
Updates from today's visit:
Desert: blue-winged teal have been added to the freeroaming area. I saw at least one; either a female or eclipse male.

Mangrove: there are now two fulvous whistling-ducks on-show again, and a new species for the zoo is indigo bunting, of which we saw a juvenile (so probably from this year). We didn't see any adults but I assume those will still be present. Burgers' zoo now has three of the species in this genus, as they already had painted and rose-bellied!
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There are 2 blue-winged teals, a male and a female. There is at the moment still only one male indigo bunting. In the near future a female will be added.
 
Vision said:
Updates from today's visit:
Desert: blue-winged teal have been added to the freeroaming area. I saw at least one; either a female or eclipse male.

Mangrove: there are now two fulvous whistling-ducks on-show again, and a new species for the zoo is indigo bunting, of which we saw a juvenile (so probably from this year). We didn't see any adults but I assume those will still be present. Burgers' zoo now has three of the species in this genus, as they already had painted and rose-bellied!
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The Mangrove species were already added ;), but good to know they have Blue-winged teals again, they were kept there about 10 years ago, but were only present for a few years.
 
lintworm said:
The Mangrove species were already added ;), but good to know they have Blue-winged teals again, they were kept there about 10 years ago, but were only present for a few years.
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All Blue-winged Teal drakes should still be eclipse right now. Mine are.
 
Vision said:
Updates from today's visit:
Desert: blue-winged teal have been added to the freeroaming area. I saw at least one; either a female or eclipse male.

Mangrove: there are now two fulvous whistling-ducks on-show again, and a new species for the zoo is indigo bunting, of which we saw a juvenile (so probably from this year). We didn't see any adults but I assume those will still be present. Burgers' zoo now has three of the species in this genus, as they already had painted and rose-bellied!
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You realise Indigo Bunting cocks have an eclipse plumage?
 
FBBird said:
You realise Indigo Bunting cocks have an eclipse plumage?
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Nope, I did not, that's interesting to know! That would explain there only being one male present, but it being one that didn't look 100% right. Thanks!
 
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