Kowloon Park "Kowloon Park" Species List & Visit Report (March 12, 2025)

Toki

Toki

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Hi

I created a species list for this facility:

Name: Kowloon Park
Location: Hong Kong
Website: Kowloon Park - Animals - Aviary
Visit Date: March 12, 2025
Ticket Price: Free
Animal Feeding / Activities: None
Food: None

This is a large urban park with an aviary and lake that holds birds.
Though it is not considered as a zoo, it holds interesting avian species.

Here is the species list:
I have updated Zootierliste too, so I will folow its format.

<Aviary>
Blue-and-yellow macaw (Blue-and-gold macaw) (Ara ararauna)
Galah (Rose-breasted cockatoo) (Roseate cockatoo) (No Subspecific status) (Eolophus roseicapilla (Syn.: Cacatua roseicapilla))
Green-winged macaw (Red-and-green macaw) (Ara chloropterus (Syn.: Ara chloroptera))
Grey parrot (African Grey Parrot) (No species or subspecies status) (Psittacus erithacus (sensu lato))
Malaysian Great Argus (Argusianus argus argus)
New Guinea red-sided eclectus parrot (Eclectus polychloros polychloros (Syn.: E. roratus polychloros) (Syn.: E. roratus pectoralis))
Nicobar pigeon (Caloenas nicobarica)
Pied Imperial-pigeon (Ducula bicolor)
Red-tailed black cockatoo (Banksian Black-cockatoo) (No Subspecific status) (Calyptorhynchus banksii (Syn.: Calyptorhynchus magnificus))
Silver pheasant (No Subspecific status) (Lophura nycthemera)
Speckled pigeon (Guinea pigeon) (African rock-pigeon) (No Subspecific status) (Columba guinea)
Tanimbar corella (Goffin's corella) (Tanimbar cockatoo) (Cacatua goffiniana (Syn.: Cacatua goffini) (Syn.: Licmetis goffiniana))
Turquoise-fronted amazon (Blue-fronted amazon) (no subspecies-status) (Amazona aestiva)
Umbrella cockatoo (White cockatoo) (White-crested cockatoo) (Cacatua alba)
Victoria crowned-pigeon (Goura victoria)
Violet turaco (Violet plantain-eater) (Tauraco violaceus (Syn.: Musophaga violacea) (Syn.: Musophaga violacea violacea))
Yellow-crowned amazon (Yellow-crowned parrot) (No Subspecific status) (Amazona ochrocephala)
Yellow-headed amazon (Yellow-headed parrot) (No Subspecific status) (Amazona oratrix)
Yellow-naped amazon (Yellow-naped parrot) (No Subspecific status) (Amazona auropalliata)

<Bird Lake>
Coscoroba swan (Coscoroba coscoroba)
Greater flamingo (Phoenicopterus roseus (Syn.: Phoenicopterus ruber roseus) (Syn.: Phoenicopterus antiquorum))
Lesser flamingo (Phoeniconaias minor (Syn.: Phoenicopterus minor))

All species except Coscoroba swan were seen. Other visitors said the swan is here, so it was probably just hiding somewhere due to the rain.

I uploaded my photos here:
Kowloon Park - ZooChat
I visited here on a rainy day and did not have a lot of time, so I unfortunately don't have photos of the birds.

Feel free to leave any comments / questions!
 
I live just across the street from Kowloon Park. The flamingo pond is definitely a highlight, but the other aviary really is just a shadow of its former self, not only in terms of the number5 of species but also the number of animals. The largest one used to hold rhinoceros hornbills, for example.

The other ponds around the park hold a healthy population of red-eared sliders, but those are an invasive population made up of released pets rather than a real exhibit. Similarly, there's a population of non-native parakeets living wild in the park.
 
Gavinj90 said:
I live just across the street from Kowloon Park. The flamingo pond is definitely a highlight, but the other aviary really is just a shadow of its former self, not only in terms of the number5 of species but also the number of animals. The largest one used to hold rhinoceros hornbills, for example.

The other ponds around the park hold a healthy population of red-eared sliders, but those are an invasive population made up of released pets rather than a real exhibit. Similarly, there's a population of non-native parakeets living wild in the park.
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Thank you for your comment!
It was my first visit there, and I didn't know they have invasive parakeets there! Looks similar to the situation in Tokyo.
 
I knew of this place and wondered which method they use to prevent the flamingos from flying? With such a large number of birds I would think pinioning would be the most practical option, rather than clipping the feathers.
 
Wanderer said:
I knew of this place and wondered which method they use to prevent the flamingos from flying? With such a large number of birds I would think pinioning would be the most practical option, rather than clipping the feathers.
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Thanks for your comment!
Yes, this place has a large number of flamingos in the lake. I'm not sure how they are preventing then from flying, but I'll guess they are pinioned.
 
Wanderer said:
I knew of this place and wondered which method they use to prevent the flamingos from flying? With such a large number of birds I would think pinioning would be the most practical option, rather than clipping the feathers.
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Toki said:
Thanks for your comment!
Yes, this place has a large number of flamingos in the lake. I'm not sure how they are preventing then from flying, but I'll guess they are pinioned.
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There's an interesting article here about all the places in Hong Kong with flamingoes, which says the Kowloon ones are wing-clipped (although I wouldn't put faith in the author really knowing the difference between wing-clipping and pinioning - at one point he seems to equate the terms - but the article itself is interesting for history etc): The Peculiar Case of Hong Kong's Flightless Flamingos

This scientific paper says that the captive birds on the lake are pinioned: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03079450400003601#d1e686 ("two open ponds referred to as the Bird Lake and the Chinese Garden, which hold many pinioned water birds"), and Table 1 additionally has a list of all the captive birds held on the lake in 2002 which may also be of interest (26 species, although the listed White-breasted Waterhens are probably wild birds).
 
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Chlidonias said:
There's an interesting article here about all the places in Hong Kong with flamingoes, which says the Kowloon ones are wing-clipped (although I wouldn't put faith in the author really knowing the difference between wing-clipping and pinioning - at one point he seems to equate the terms - but the article itself is interesting for history etc): The Peculiar Case of Hong Kong's Flightless Flamingos

This scientific paper says that the captive birds on the lake are pinioned: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03079450400003601#d1e686 ("two open ponds referred to as the Bird Lake and the Chinese Garden, which hold many pinioned water birds"), and Table 1 additionally has a list of all the captive birds held on the lake in 2002 which may also be of interest (26 species, although the listed White-breasted Waterhens are probably wild birds).
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Thank you for the detailed reply and the useful links!
It's interesting to see the background of these animals and the surrounding environment.
 
Gavinj90 said:
I live just across the street from Kowloon Park. The flamingo pond is definitely a highlight, but the other aviary really is just a shadow of its former self, not only in terms of the number5 of species but also the number of animals. The largest one used to hold rhinoceros hornbills, for example.

The other ponds around the park hold a healthy population of red-eared sliders, but those are an invasive population made up of released pets rather than a real exhibit. Similarly, there's a population of non-native parakeets living wild in the park.
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I believe that aviary now houses nicobar pigeons. Other species that used to live in Kowloon Park include peafowl and nene goose, the latter still present at the zoo.
 
I'd have to check (not difficult to do, so might have a look later), but I think the nicobar pigeons were spread across a couple of mixed-species cages.

That article about the flamingoes was interesting. I'd add that I'm fairly sure I remember Ocean Park having a walkthrough flamingo habitat back in the mid 2000s. I have no idea which species they were, but I think there's a good chance that they went to one of the current three places now housing flamingoes.
 
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