San Diego Zoo Hawaiian crows
- Thread starter Chlidonias
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I don't know. I thought I remembered someone on Zoochat saying there was one individual on display somewhere but I stand to be corrected.
There are some zoo blogs here too about the crows: Tag Archives: Hawaiian crow
There are some zoo blogs here too about the crows: Tag Archives: Hawaiian crow
There aren't any on exhibit. The San Diego Zoo has a native breeding bird station in Hawaii that is not open to the public.
Are they not even on display at the Honolulu Zoo or any other Hawaiian zoo?
~Thylo
~Thylo
Are they not even on display at the Honolulu Zoo or any other Hawaiian zoo?
~Thylo
Not to my knowledge, and I've asked people who have visited the Honolulu Zoo and have knowledge of the crow program. Supposedly there is (or was) one individual behind the scenes on the mainland at the zoo in San Diego, but like their tuataras and dholes it is completely locked away from public access.
The Pana'ewa Rainforest Zoo in the Big Island of Hawaii does not have Hawaiian crows either.
from my readings on the internet I gather that all Hawaiian crows are in two non-public breeding centres, on Maui and Hawaii (at Keauhou).
The one off-display at the San Diego Wild Animal Park was a hand-reared imprinted male called Kinohi who was there to be trained for sperm-donation (he would not mate naturally with female crows). He went there from Hawaii in 2009 and the articles I found said he would be there for one year, so I don't know if he is still in San Diego or if he was returned to one of the breeding centres in Hawaii (I couldn't find anything later than that).
There are plans to reintroduce crows back into the wild from the captive population.
The one off-display at the San Diego Wild Animal Park was a hand-reared imprinted male called Kinohi who was there to be trained for sperm-donation (he would not mate naturally with female crows). He went there from Hawaii in 2009 and the articles I found said he would be there for one year, so I don't know if he is still in San Diego or if he was returned to one of the breeding centres in Hawaii (I couldn't find anything later than that).
There are plans to reintroduce crows back into the wild from the captive population.
The crows are only at the breeding center on the big island, Hawaii. Given that the species has nearly gone extinct twice and they do not breed all that well, you will not find any outside of this facility. From what I understand there is one crow at SDWAP that is a subject of various studies at the CRES facility.
what happened to the breeding centre on Maui? Did they just move all of the crows to the Keauhou one?
My mistake. My posting should have read "The only breeding crows are at the center on the big island." If they are breeding at the Maui facility, then that is news to me!
do you mean only the ones at Keauhou are breeding naturally (i.e. parent-raising their own chicks), or that only the birds at Keauhou are producing fertile eggs? Because the Maui ones were certainly producing fertile eggs as late as last year if my understanding of the centres' blogs is correct.