Knock on wood: woodpeckers in zoos

[Tetzoo Quizzer]

Here is my list of species seen in the wild
Eurasian Wryneck
African Piculet
Rufous Piculet
Lafresnaye’s Piculet
Ecuadorian Piculet
Speckle-chested Piculet
White-barred Piculet
Ocellated Piculet
Olivaceous Piculet
Grey-and-buff Woodpecker
Red-necked Woodpecker
Crimson-crested Woodpecker
Guayaquil Woodpecker
Magellanic Woodpecker
Maroon Woodpecker
Orange-backed Woodpecker
Common Flameback
Rufous Woodpecker
Buff-rumped Woodpecker
Banded Woodpecker
Chequer-throated Yellownape
Fine-spotted Woodpecker
Nubian Woodpecker
Golden-tailed Woodpecker
Fine-banded Woodpecker
Buff-spotted Woodpecker
Brown-eared Woodpecker
Laced Woodpecker
Grey-faced Woodpecker
Black-naped Woodpecker
Eurasian Green Woodpecker
Iberian Green Woodpecker
Maghreb Green Woodpecker
Stripe-cheeked Woodpecker
White-throated Woodpecker
Golden-green Woodpecker
Red-shafted Flicker
Guatemalan Flicker
Yellow-shafted Flicker
Gilded Flicker
Green-barred Woodpecker
Southern Andean Flicker
Chilean Flicker
Campo Flicker
Spot-breasted Woodpecker
Golden-Olive Woodpecker
Cinnamon Woodpecker
Cream-coloured Woodpecker
Pileated Woodpecker
Lineated Woodpecker
Black Woodpecker
Ashy Woodpecker
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
White Woodpecker
Lewis’s Woodpecker
Red-headed Woodpecker
Acorn Woodpecker
Yellow-tufted Woodpecker
Black-cheeked Woodpecker
White-fronted Woodpecker
Red-crowned Woodpecker
Gila Woodpecker
Red-bellied Woodpecker
Golden-fronted Woodpecker
Velasquez’s Woodpecker
Eurasian Three-toed Woodpecker
Dark-bodied Woodpecker
Sulawesi Pygmy Woodpecker
Japanese Pygmy Woodpecker
Sunda Pygmy Woodpecker
Cardinal Woodpecker
Melancholy Woodpecker
Gabon Woodpecker
Bearded Woodpecker
Yellow-crested Woodpecker
Fire-bellied Woodpecker
Elliot’s Woodpecker
Grey Woodpecker
Middle Spotted Woodpecker
Lesser Spotted Woodpecker
Downy Woodpecker
Ladder-backed Woodpecker
Hairy Woodpecker
Arizona Woodpecker
Smoky-brown Woodpecker
Red-rumped Woodpecker
Checkered Woodpecker
Striped Woodpecker
Little Woodpecker
Scarlet-backed Woodpecker
Red-stained Woodpecker
White-backed Woodpecker
Syrian Woodpecker
Great Spotted Woodpecker

94 species (maximum splitting, possibly 2 or 3 less with lumping). Hoping for a few more next month including Red-necked Wryneck and Ground Woodpecker. White Woodpecker is the only species I recall seeing in captivity.

 

[Breckenridge]

The North Carolina Zoo used to have Gila woodpeckers in the Sonora Desert dome, now simply Desert. The following is what I've seen in the wild:

• Yellow-bellied sapsucker
• Red-headed woodpecker
• Red-bellied woodpecker
• Downy woodpecker
• Hairy woodpecker
• Pileated woodpecker
• Northern flicker

 

[DaLilFishie]

I've seen three species:

• Japanese Pygmy Woodpecker (wild)
• Japanese Green Woodpecker (wild)
• Great Slaty Woodpecker (Ueno Zoo)

 

[Chlidonias]

I'm up to 49 species seen wild now.

 

[Paul.Haerle]

Walsrode kept at least 19 woodpecker species/subspecies :

• Black Woodpecker
• Black-cheeked Woodpecker (kept in the Paradieshalle)
• Black-headed Woodpecker
• Black-rumped Flameback
• Central European Lesser Spotted Woodpecker
• Common Flameback
• Eurasian Green Woodpecker
• Eurasian Wyrneck
• European Great Spotted Woodpecker (kept in the European corner together with Western Capercaillie)
• Great Slaty Woodpecker
• Greater Yellownape
• Hispaniolan Woodpecker (breeding)
• Mottled Piculet
• Olive Woodpecker
• Red-bellied Woodpecker
• Red-crested Woodpecker
• White Woodpecker (kept in the Fasanerie)
• Yellow-fronted Woodpecker

 

[Veno]

At Neo Park Okinawa, a male Okinawa woodpecker (Dendrocopos noguchii) is currently on display. He broke his left wing in an accident last year and has since been undergoing rehabilitation in hopes of returning to the wild. The exhibit is equipped with one-way glass so that visitors cannot be seen by the bird. The park states that it aims for his eventual release back into the wild, depending on his recovery progress and how far he is able to fly.

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