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Lots of news for this little known park with a nice birds collection :
- new aviary for spectacled owls (new species),
- new aviary for a marabou pair,
- new exhibit for yellow mongooses,
- new african area for ring-tailed lemurs, meerkats, porcupines, servals and an island for brown and black and white ruffed lemurs,
- new enclosure for raccons.
- birth of a common zebra and ring-tailed lemur,
- a canadian crane hatched.

And surprise : the zoo has at least a saddle-billed stork.
 
I live very close to Labenne, it's deserving a new visit soon or later.
Are there any pics of the new exhibits @Antoine ? It's been many many years since my last visit.
 
I found said pictures, seems pretty nice. Glad to see this place improve, things are changing at a pretty fast pace.
Although the spectacled owl exhibit seems like an exhibit they already had, I think it last exhibited vultures (and in my early visits, brown lemurs and eagle owls after that). I'm not gonna speak as if I knew though, I'll have to do some more research ahahaha.
 
I found said pictures, seems pretty nice. Glad to see this place improve, things are changing at a pretty fast pace.
Although the spectacled owl exhibit seems like an exhibit they already had, I think it last exhibited vultures (and in my early visits, brown lemurs and eagle owls after that). I'm not gonna speak as if I knew though, I'll have to do some more research ahahaha.
You're right : it is a refurbished exhibit which was before for vultures. Much more adapted now.
 
News:
The park has two new species:
- Two pairs of Magpie goose (Anseranas semipalmata).
- White-headed ducks (Oxyura leucocephala) (Not sure if these are new but I've never heard of them at the zoo). The zoo is now partaking on a breeding project for this endangered species.

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News:
- Four female Alpacas (Vicugna pacos) have arrived to the zoo from Zoo de Champrépus and have joined the herd that already existed at the zoo.

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The male is already there and on show :)

More sweets : arrival of crowned-pigeon, southern ground hornbill and a pair of black-casqued hornbills :cool:
Amazing news! Where do you get this information from? I'd love to see pics of the new aviaries and inhabitants (If there are any of them, of course).
 
I recall visiting this zoo actually a few years ago, thinking little of it other than a rather small subpar establishment ... though seeing recent developments in regards to exotic birds, I think my appreciation for it has started to grow somewhat.
Perhaps its establishment prior as a children's zoo mainly was the monetary start it needed to grow into an embryonic, though interesting place of cultivation of rare species.
 
More interesting news for @SivatheriumGuy ;) :
- a pair of spectacled owls (news species) arrived from Puy du Fou,
- the zebras and dromedaries will be mixed in a new plain with a new snack,
- wattled cranes, sandhill cranes and green peafowl (last one was not mentionned for the zoo before) have laid eggs and are on nest :cool:

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Thanks for all the news! I really wanted to visit last week but stuff got messed up and I sadly couldn't, but once summer starts showing itself I bet you I'll be heading Labenne.
The owls have been in the park since February, right? Or did they get another pair of the same species?
 
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