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Chlidonias said:
they have morepork? How? And also why have both morepork and boobook, which are basically the same? Do you mean Tawny Frogmouth (just a guess because they are sometimes called moreporks or mopokes)?
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The sign said Morepork owl. They have no Frogmouths (the Night Safari has them).
 
Chlidonias said:
they have morepork? How? And also why have both morepork and boobook, which are basically the same? Do you mean Tawny Frogmouth (just a guess because they are sometimes called moreporks or mopokes)?
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The Moreporks and Booboks are not practically the same, the Morepork is more known as the Tasmanian Spotted Owl (Ninox novaeseelandiae) and one of its subspecies is sometimes called the Tasmanian Boobok. And the Tawny Frogmouth is sometimes mistakenly called the Mopoke, which, in fact, is a common name for the Southern Boobok Owl. The Southern Boobok and Frogmouth's calls are often confused with each other.

Just to end the confusion :o
 
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Continuing....

Wetlands (recently renovated)

This is a set of two twin aviaries, that are viewed through a glassed tunnel (sides only).
Large flocks (100+) of Scarlet Ibis and Roseate Spoonbills can be seen in both aviaries and this gives a sense of continuity. Straw-neck Ibis are also found in both, but in much lower numbers.
Other species present are:
Waldrapp / Eurasian Spoonbill / Hammerkop / Nankeen Night-heron / Nene / Abyssinian Blue-winged Goose / Magpie Goose (w/ goslings) / Crested Mynah (:confused:)

The former spoonbill aviary, which is seen only from above in the main road is home to: Peruvian pelican / Sacred Ibis / American White Ibis / Eurasian Magpie (!!)

Royal Ramble

This is a series of three contiguous aviaries that used to house three species of crowned pigeons (and some hybrids as the birds kept crossing through). Currently it seems to be a mixed area of pigeons and other species.

aviary 1: Pinon Imperial Pigeon / Common Crowned Pigeon / Peruvian Pigeon / Purple-crested Turaco

Aviary 2: Sclater's Crowned Pigeon (the only ones I know in captivity?) / Crested Pigeon / Senegal Dove / Stock Dove / Common Woodpigeon / Zebre Dove / Long-tailed Starling / Greater Blue-eared Starling

aviary 3 : Green peafowl / Von der Decken's Hornbill (odd combination)

Hornbills & Toucans

This area is famous for its large aviaries and housed Jurong's renowned collection of Hornbills, as well as a few Toucan species (traditionally not well represented in the park). Starting from the top near the keeper interactive area you can see:

Bornean Rhinoceros Hornbill
Red-billed Toucan
Bar-pouched Hornbill (2 aviaries, each w// 1 pair)
Red-billed Hornbill
Von der Decken's Hornbill
African pied Hornbill
Luzon Hornbill
Trumpeter Hornbill
Southern Ground Hornbill (adult pair and 3 juveniles :eek:)
Malayan Rhinoceros Hornbill (2 aviaries, 1 pair each)
Great Hornbill (3 aviaries, 1 pair each)
Papuan Hornbill (2 aviaries, 1 pair with juveniles, 1 pair w/out)
White-crested Hornbill (1 aviary with a pair, another with 2 females)
Oriental Pied Hornbill
Malayan Black Hornbill
Toco Toucan
Wrinkled Hornbill
African Grey Hornbill
Bushy-crested Hornbill]
African Crowned Hornbill (w/ juvenile)
Mindanao Rufous Hornbill

Windows on Paradise

This is the Bird of Paradise aviaries, which regularly rotates through the species held by the park, and also housed the Andean Cock-of-the-Rock.
At the time the species on display were:

Raggiana Bird of Paradise

Lesser Bird of Paradise / Great Argus / Common Crowned PIgeon / Island Imperial Pigeon

Red Bird of Paradise / Pink-headed Imperial Pigeon / Victoria Crowned Pigeon

Behind the scenes : Andean Cock-of-the-rock / King Bird of Paradise / Twelve-wired Bird of Paradise

Lory Loft

This is the lorry feeding aviary, a large lusciously planted area, that has seen the number of birds decrease over the years but still offers a great experience. Species currently housed here:

Green-naped Lorikeet
Rainbow (Swainson's) Lorikeet
Red-collared Lorikeet
Marigold Lorikeet
Red Lory
Blue-streaked Lory
Black-capped Lory
Chattering lorry
Yellow-bibbed Lory
Purple-naped Lory
Red-sided Eclectus
Tanimbar Cockatoo
Major Mitchell Cockatoo
 
Calyptorhynchus said:
Sclater's Crowned Pigeon (the only ones I know in captivity?)
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No, actually they're quite common in captivity.
The confusion probably arises because many/most of the Sclater's Crowned Pigeons in zoos are labelled as 'Scheepmaker's Crowned Pigeon', but are in fact Sclater's (Goura scheepmakeri sclaterii) - which is now sometimes treated as a full species.
 
Calyptorhynchus said:
The sign said Morepork owl. They have no Frogmouths (the Night Safari has them).
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did they have the scientific names on the signs? I'm wondering if by morepork they mean the Australian boobook (formerly conspecific, in which case they would probably be using the morepork's scientific name anyway rather than the boobook's, so that wouldn't particularly help) and by boobook they mean one of the other Ninox like N. japonica or something like that. I just find it curious that they would have actual moreporks.
 
When I was at Juring last week they had frogmouth in the nocturnal house
 
I was just at Jurong. Did not see any sign for Morepork at World of Darkness... no Frogmouth either. There was only Boobook signed and a Bush Stone Curlew unsigned. I heard WRS imported Morepork though.

The crowned pigeons are still signed as Scheepmaker's and not Sclater's.

Rufous Hornbill is off display.

There is a lone Chilean flamingo with the American flamingos.
 
Thanks Zooish, I missed out on the Chilean..

Moving forward after the Lory Loft you'll see the bird of prey cages. I didn't spend too much time there so I may be short of a few species in the list. I also hear that the new park will have less species on display (birds of prey I mean). Not sure whether they will be transferred to the zoo or just sent to other zoos.
From what I recall:

Palmnut Vulture / Hooded Vulture / Pied Crow

African Fish Eagle

White-bellied Sea-eagle / Changeable Hawk-eagle

Brahminy Kite / Black Kite (there were more species here, sorry...)

Andean Condor (now only 1 female on display, there used to be a male and another female too) / King Vulture / Turkey Vulture / Caracara / Pied Crow / Griffon Vulture

Jungle Jewels

This is a nice little walk-through (I like it better than the waterfall), that has traditionally been south-American in theming, but has recently shifted to be south-American and African. I am guessing it is one of the consequences of preparing the collection for the new park..
An impressive array of species could be seen, though you have to stand there for a while and since the African species are relatively recent, they are not signalled (which is my biggest complaint about Jurong).
The keeper was very helpful in getting me to see some of the more illusive species. Hopefully this is a full list:

2 smaller glass-fronted aviaries at the entrance:

Cotton-top Tamarin

Common Marmoset

Walk-through aviary:

Neotropical species:
Sun Conure / Green-cheeked Conure / Blue-crowned Conure / White-fronted Amazon / Long-tailed Mockingbird / Red-crested Cardinal / Blue-grey Tanager / Silver-beaked Tanager / Saffron Finch / Yellow-hooded Blackbird / Carolina Wood-duck / Rosy-billed Pochard / Black-bellied Whisting-duck / White-faced Whistling-duck / Scarlet Ibis

African species:
Golden-breasted Starling / Chestnut-bellied Starling / Violet-backed Starling / Hartlaub's Turaco / White-crested Turaco /

I also saw a male Crestless fireback, presumably there temporarily ?
 
To add on to Calyptorhynchus' list for Jungle Jewels:

Neotropic species: Peruvian pigeon, Black-tufted marmoset (rather than Common marmoset)
Other species: Olive pigeon, Common shelduck, Mandarin duck, Ashy starling
 
Great thread.

Calyptorhynchus said:
Andean Condor (now only 1 female on display, there used to be a male and another female too) / King Vulture / Turkey Vulture / Caracara / Pied Crow / Griffon Vulture
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Do you or anyone else know the exact caracara species on display?
 
GlobalSpecies lists Jurong as holding Yellow-headed Caracara (Milvago chimachima), but we all know GlobalSpecies is not up to date!
 
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The bird in the back looks like a female Somali starling with the red on the wing and pale head.
 
going back to the moreporks mentioned earlier, the ones at Jurong for which I could find out the origin were imported from the Netherlands and Belgium. They are listed by Jurong as being novaeseelandiae but coming from Europe are clearly boobook, so WRS is just using the older pre-split name.

The only other Ninox they appear to have is N. theomacha.
 
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