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

It appears the last 2 Lyles' Flying Foxes have also passed away due to old age. So only Rodriquez Flying Foxes left.

In the Desert both the Socorro Doves and Scaled Quails aren't free-ranging anymore and are confined to the bird canyon.
 
Mr. Zootycoon said:
Perhaps the bird flu epidemic could have something to do with that (especially for the quails)?
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Maybe for breeding purposes, as the gambell's quails are still freeroaming. just guessing though. In my experience the scaled quails were also relatively harder to see freeroaming then the other species, maybe that has something to do with it aswell.
 
Bosjesman said:
Maybe for breeding purposes, as the gambell's quails are still freeroaming. just guessing though. In my experience the scaled quails were also relatively harder to see freeroaming then the other species, maybe that has something to do with it aswell.
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Gambel’s and Scaled are likely to hybridise
 
Bosjesman said:
Maybe for breeding purposes, as the gambell's quails are still freeroaming. just guessing though. In my experience the scaled quails were also relatively harder to see freeroaming then the other species, maybe that has something to do with it aswell.
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Weren't the scaled already in the canyon? During my first visit 3 years ago they were there at least (during my visit this summer the canyon was closed off). A pair of Socorro doves have also lived there for a longer time I believe, maybe those in the hall were surplus individuals that got send away?
 
Jarne said:
Weren't the scaled already in the canyon? During my first visit 3 years ago they were there at least (during my visit this summer the canyon was closed off). A pair of Socorro doves have also lived there for a longer time I believe, maybe those in the hall were surplus individuals that got send away?
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The doves outside the canyon were indeed offspring of the breeding pair and 2019 was a very good year for them, but levels are now more back to normal.

They used to have 2 pairs of Scaled Quails, one of which has been free-roaming, but I haven't seen them in ages outside the canyon. These have probably moved off-show...
 
EmperorTamarin said:
Soccoro dove is free-ranging.
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I know it's old by now, but they're actually kept in two groups. They have a breeding pair in the canyon, a small walk-through aviary you can enter through one of the cave systems. And their offspring, who are kept free-roaming through the hall

Edit: read the rest of the thread, they weren't there yet at time of this comment

I also haven't seen anyone mention the three wrinkled hornbills free-roaming in the bush, they're a bachelor group of three males, as they previously had trouble with a breeding pair killing off the other free-roamers. According to some zoochatters they are best found in the trees above the otter encosure
 
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Mr Gharial said:
I know it's old by now, but they're actually kept in two groups. They have a breeding pair in the canyon, a small walk-through aviary you can enter through one of the cave systems. And their offspring, who are kept free-roaming through the hall

Edit: read the rest of the thread, they weren't there yet at time of this comment

I also haven't seen anyone mention the three wrinkled hornbills free-roaming in the bush, they're a bachelor group of three males, as they previously had trouble with a breeding pair killing off the other free-roamers. According to some zoochatters they are best found in the trees above the otter encosure
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Recently they can actually be more found throughout the hall. I encountered two of them at the overviewing platform (near ocean) last week
 
This is a little less relevant, so feel free to ignore this. But I once found a huge toad in the mangrove, assumedly walked in from outside. I heard it banging on one of the overflow boxes of the manatee pool and alerted a keeper.

Are there any other unofficial animals in the greenhouses that walked in from outside?
 
Mr Gharial said:
Are there any other unofficial animals in the greenhouses that walked in from outside?
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Well, not "walked in" per se.... but I would be willing to bet either Bush or Mangrove contains Brahminy Blind Snakes :p as noted upthread I've certainly heard they are in the former.
 
Mr Gharial said:
This is a little less relevant, so feel free to ignore this. But I once found a huge toad in the mangrove, assumedly walked in from outside. I heard it banging on one of the overflow boxes of the manatee pool and alerted a keeper.

Are there any other unofficial animals in the greenhouses that walked in from outside?
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Did it look like a common toad, then it may be one of our own natives. If not, could also be a visitors released one of their pets inside. That does happen.
 
TeaLovingDave said:
Bonus points for the reptile species that (from what I've heard recently) is present but not classified as part of the collection due to having arrived in soil/plants :p to wit Brahminy Blind Snake.
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TeaLovingDave said:
Well, not "walked in" per se.... but I would be willing to bet either Bush or Mangrove contains Brahminy Blind Snakes :p as noted upthread I've certainly heard they are in the former.
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Now where would you have heard this? I've never heard this, if they would be there.... I guess I'll have to try and search thoroughly one day for all these hidden unknown gems..
 
Mr Gharial said:
This is a little less relevant, so feel free to ignore this. But I once found a huge toad in the mangrove, assumedly walked in from outside. I heard it banging on one of the overflow boxes of the manatee pool and alerted a keeper.

Are there any other unofficial animals in the greenhouses that walked in from outside?
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Theres a few unwanted Stick Insects in the mangrove, but I'd not be surprised of them also being in the Bush.
 
Mr Gharial said:
Are there any other unofficial animals in the greenhouses that walked in from outside?
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There are plenty of House Sparrows in the Bush and both House Mouse and Greater White-toothed Shrew also occur in the Bush (as have Brown Rats at least in the past) and I have seen Bank Vole in the Mangrove too. The Bush is also home to a large population of garden snails as well as a multitude of accidental exotic snail, fungi and insect introductions

A new official addition to the Mangrove is the Crested Bobwhite (a quail species), a species only kept in 2 other European zoos as the moment.
 
lintworm said:
A new official addition to the Mangrove is the Crested Bobwhite (a quail species), a species only kept in 2 other European zoos as the moment.
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I was about to say this, they also talked about possibly adding dart frogs or iguanas in the future
 
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