San Diego Zoo Safari Park List of Species on Exhibit 1-4-2014 SD Safari Park

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List of species on exhibit at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park 1-4-2014

Inspired by geomorph and his great post I will attempt to do the same, list every species on exhibit. I will be listing the animals based on the path that I took today which took 5.5 hours with a pregnant wife, four kids (only one is mine) and my sister. We started at 11 am and the zoo was so full that we ended up parking at the third to last row in the parking lot. I have never seen the zoo this full without it being a weekend in the summer. Find a copy of the parks map and follow along.

First things first,

Entrance Area, (2 pathways, one through a aviary and one around it)
We started through the aviary and ended the day going the other way.

Wings of the World (walkthrough aviary, 28 bird species)
Southern bald ibis
African openbill stork
Falcated duck
Bartlett’s bleeding-heart dove
African spoonbill
Ringed teal
Sunbittern
White-winged wood duck
Scarlet ibis
Northern purple roller
Victoria crowned pigeon
Roseate spoonbill
Wattled starling
Surinam crested oropendola
Madada ibis
Nicobar pigeon
Ocellated turkey
Taveta golden weaver
White-headed lapwing
Green imperial-pigeon
Storm’s stork
Red-crested turaco
Elegant crested tinamou
Golden-breasted starling
Red-breasted merganser
Hawaiian goose
Black-bellied whistling duck
Himalayan monal

Flamingo Exhibit (3 birds)
Just past the aviary and right before an animal ambassador stage
Chilean Flamingo
Moluccan radjah shelduck
White-faced whistling duck

Exhibits by wooden structure of the lagoon.
Southwest African meerkat

Exhibit on opposite side of meerkats
Storm’s stork (also in wings of world aviary)
Bar-headed goose
Common shelduck
Red-breasted goose

Shares back wall of meerkats exhibit
Black duiker

Nairobi Station (2 exhibits, then a nursery)
Fennic fox
Ornate monitor
Lion cubs in the nursery

Nairobi Station past nursery (11 exhibits)
Lesser hedgehog tenrec
Pancake tortoise
African bullfrog
Blotched blue-tongued skink
Chinchilla
Black milksnake
Whites tree frog
Ball python
Sugar Glider
African Grey Parrot
One empty cage

Exhibit on Other side of Nairobi Station, just past the black duiker (1 enclosure)
Red-knobbed Hornbill
Malay Great Argus Pheasant

Local birds sign on lagoon
Black-crowned night heron
Mallard
Northern pintail

Exhibit seen from wooden bridge in lagoon
Empty exhibit being remodeled

Lagoon Birds (13 birds)
Red-crested Pochard
Bar-headed Goose
Swan Goose
White-faced Whistling Duck
Orinoco Goose
South African Shelduck
White-breasted Cormorant
Shoebill Stork
African Darter
Red-crested Pochard
Pink-backed Pelican
Bar-backed Pelican
Black-crowned Night Heron

Old Lemur Island
Just a bunch of local ducks

Kalahari Cupboard (I swear it says that on the map) 2 exhibits
Red River Hog

Other Exhibit
Cavendish’s Dik Dik

Here they have built a boat playground that has seating for the restaurant on the boat and a net so kids can climb down into a play area.

Across from the boat (1 building exhibit)
Rodrigues (Flying Fox) Fruit Bat

From here there are several restaurants before coming up to Lorikeet landing, which we looked in and then walked to the Hidden Jungle

Lorikeet Landing (walkthrough aviary) (1 bird)
Rainbow Lorikeet

Hidden Jungle Entrance Cave (17 exhibits)
White-eyed Assassin Bug
Madagascar Hissing Cockroach (2 exhibits)
Emperor Scorpion (2 exhibits)
Angolan Python
Tropical Girdled Lizard
Pancake Tortoise
African Giant Millipede
Giant Lead-tailed gecko
Madagascar Tree Boa
Mali Uromastyx
Banded Velvet Gecko
Mombassa Golden Starburst Tarantula
Horned Baboon Tarantula
Empty exhibit
Fort Hall Baboon Tarantula

Hidden Jungle First Walkthrough Aviary (14 birds)
Purple-crested Turaco
Black-cheeked Lovebird
Blue-capped Cordon-bleu
African Fire-finch
Magpie Mannikin
Purple Grenadier
Long-tailed Paradise-whydah
Northern Red Bishop
Pink Pigeon
Speckled Mousebird
Pin-tailed Whydah
Melba Finch
Lavender Waxbill
African Pygmy Goose

Hidden Jungle Second Walkthrough Aviary (18 birds)
Black-cheeked Lovebird
Hottentot Teal
Green Woodhoopoe
Ross’s Turaco
Marbled Teal
Long-toed Lapwing
Oriole Warbler
Yellow-crowned Gonolek
Reichenow’s Helmeted Guineafowl
White-headed Buffalo Weaver
Black Heron
Speckled Mousebird
Superb Starling
Eastern Hammerkop
Taveta Golden Weaver
Red-capped Cardinal
White-crowned Robin-chat
Old World Comb Duck

The hidden jungle ends just past the lorikeet landing

2 exhibits behind Lorikeet landing

Exhibit one (2 birds)
Congo Peafowl
Great Blue Turaco

Exhibit two (5 birds)
Bearded Barbet
Crested Guineafowl
Madagascar Crested Ibis
Red-billed Pintail
Old World Comb Duck

Now down the path to a fork in the road, one way leads to the tram the other to the gorillas, we went towards the tram.

Walkthrough Exhibit
Ring-tailed Lemur

Now we go down the elevator and start the Africa loop and the first area

Africa Woods (7 exhibits) animals in same exhibit are separated by a coma
Bontebok
Eastern Giant Eland
Sudan Red-fronted Gazelle
Hooded Vulture, Western Eqyptian Vulture, South African Shelduck
Yellow-backed Duiker, Okapi
Southern Gerenuk, Kori Bustard, Western Red-flanked Duiker, Demoiselle Crane
East African Crowned Crane

Africa Outpost (7 exhibits, big lagoon)
European White Stork, Secretary Bird, Kori Bustard
Local Hummingbirds sign with plants to attract them. Not counting as exhibit. (Black-chinned Hummingbird, Anna’s Hummingbird, Costa’s Hummingbird, Allen’s Hummingbird)
Abyssinian Ground Hornbill
Southern Warthog, South African Bat-eared Fox
Lesser Flamingo (big lagoon)
Kikuyu Colobus (island exhibit)
Greater Flamingo (big lagoon)
Empty exhibit (Jameson research island)
African Sacred Ibis (island exhibit)
Abdim’s Stork (island exhibit)
South African Cheetah
Southern Steenbok, Kori Bustard, West African Crowned Crane, Abdim’s Stork

Next is probably the part everyone is most excited about. I wrote down every name as the guide pointed them out, hopefully I didn’t mix any of them up.

Loading barn
Nyala

Africa plains exhibit
Grant’s Gazelle
Thomson’s Gazelle
Kenya Impala
Fringe eared Oryx
Reticulated Giraffe
East African Crowned Crane
Marabou Stork
Southern White Rhinoceros
Yellow-billed Stork
East African Sitatunga
Nile Lechwe
Lake Victoria Defassa Waterbuck
Masai giraffe (not sure if he was right about this since he said it was in the other yard as well)

Cheetah
South African Cheetah

Lake
Greater Flamingo

Single yard
East African Black Rhino

Island in large yard
Dalmatian Pelican
Great White Pelican

Desert Exhibit
Addax

Marsh (saw at least five different bird species)
Blue Crane (I believe I saw it, not confirmed by driver)
Yellow-billed Stork
Goliath Herons (I believe I saw it, not confirmed by driver)
Egyptian Geese (I believe I saw it, not confirmed by driver)
Western Rueppell’s Vulture

Single Exhibit with a baby born one hour ago
Soemmering’s Gazelle

Large yard
Ellipsen Waterbuck
Sable Antelope
Patterson’s Eland
Gemsbok
Ostrich
Masai Giraffe
Blue Wildebeest
Cape Buffalo
Northern White Rhino
South African Springbok
Rothschild’s Giraffe

Right side Exhibit
Somali Wild Ass
Barbary sheep

Up top hard to see, tram guy said they were there but no detail
Ibex (unknown)
Sheep (unknown)

Back to top of large yard
Uganda Kob
Greater Kudu
Roan Antelope

Northern Side of Bridge
West African Crowned Crane
East African Bongo Antelope
Red-fronted Gazelle
Pink-backed Pelican
Dalmatian Pelican (he said it was a second group they keep separate for genetic purposes)

Exhibit cut into the large yard with a newborn
Grevy’s Zebra

Exhibit on top of the hill
Ankole Cattle
Barbary Stag (Red Deer)

Other animals that I didn’t see today that are in the fields somewhere according to lots of signs
East African Kori Bustard
Black Spur-winged Goose
Scimitar-horned Oryx
Saddlebill Stork
Southern Ground Hornbill
African Sacred Ibis
Red or Zambesi Lechwe
Blesbok
European White Stork

I asked the tram guy afterwards if there was any animal that he didn’t mention and wasn’t on the signs that was out there are he said
Sitatunga

Now I need help with this list, if there are any more animals that anyone knows about on the tram, lets add them to the list.

Lion exhibit just after the tram
African Lion

Cheetah run is across from the lion exhibit

Africa Plains Enclosure that is just before the Asia Enclosure that can’t be seen without a behind the scenes tour
Grant’s Gazelle
Thomson’s Gazelle
Kenya Impala
Fringe eared Oryx
Reticulated Giraffe
East African Crowned Crane
Marabou Stork
Southern White Rhinoceros
Yellow-billed Stork
East African Sitatunga
Nile Lechwe
Lake Victoria Defassa Waterbuck

Tiger Exhibit
Sumatran Tiger

Must turn around and go back due to construction

Elephant Yard
African Elephant

Up the hill that puts you by the bats exhibit, walk around the lagoon trail past the hidden jungle to a bird exhibit and a wooden bridge that leads to the gorillas
Red-crested Turaco
Hadada Ibis
Hammerkop

Gorilla’s, not out because the exhibit is being remodeled
Western Lowland Gorilla

Bird cage after the Gorilla’s
Western White-crowned Robin-chat
White-bellied Bustard
Emerald Starling

Walk all the way to the through the village to the restaurant past the bazaar, One exhibit behind the restaurant
Geoffroy’s Marmoset

Kids play area (1 exhibit)
Buff-crested Bustard

Exit, opposite side that we came in (4 exhibits)
South African Shelduck, Coscoroba Swan
Salmon-crested Cockatoo
Hyacinth Macaw
Lowland Paca

The tree shop used to have the cockatoo in there but currently they do not have a bird on there bird post until something replaces the cockatoo in the entrance way.

Now as you can see I missed part of the zoo, the New Tiger Trails opens up on memorial day this year and past that is the American Exhibit Condor Ridge. Tiger tails is looking pretty cool and I can’t wait until it opens. I could have gone up to Condor Ridge following the new path today but everyone is ready to go so lets do it off memory from one month ago.

Note: There is also nothing about the Asia Enclosure since there are no signs anywhere for the Asia enclosure and I am only writing up about known and seeable animals on exhibit.

Condor Ridge by memory from last month

two bird exhibits that don’t change
Thick-billed Parrot
Bald Eagle

Three exhibits that change occasionally
Ocelot or North American Porcupine (seen both over the last two months)
Harris’s Hawk
Burrowing Owl and two other bird species (can’t recall what they are)

Final two exhibits
Big Horn Sheep
California Condor

A little fun, what is supposedly in the new tiger trails exhibit
peafowl
red-crowned cranes
western tufted deer
crocodile monitors
sailfin lizards
reticulated pythons
fly river turtles
Chinese thread turtles
And there is a crazy rumor that there might be a tiger as well :eek:

We are finished :D:p:):cool:
 
sandiegomaster said:
An interesting note, there is not a single fish species that is seen or listed anywhere at the Safari Park.
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There used to be a tank of Rift Lake cichlids at the field camp section of African Outpost, but I haven't seen it for some time.
 
The last bolded section with what is supposedly in Tiger Trails isn't going to be there. It is just the Sumatran tigers now.
 
Hey Otter Lord,

That is unfortunate, I'm surprised that they got rid of the plans to have other animals as well. Do you know if there are future plans to add some more animals since they have a long pathway that will have no exhibits on it on the east side? (at least that's what it looks like by the plans pictures)
 
sandiegomaster said:
Hey Otter Lord,

That is unfortunate, I'm surprised that they got rid of the plans to have other animals as well. Do you know if there are future plans to add some more animals since they have a long pathway that will have no exhibits on it on the east side? (at least that's what it looks like by the plans pictures)
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No, I haven't heard of any plans. Everything else is speculation. Anything they build out towards condor ridge is good because they need to link that area of the zoo with the African portion using the space in between. At the moment that area after the exhibit (which used to be a protea garden), both the old tiger and lion exhibits, and a small valley are potential space for new exhibits. Although, the topography is tricky in that area is rough and requires a bit of ingenuity to design something creative.

The park still has to fulfill promises on an Asian tram. I can foresee a set-up similar to their African one, where it currently surrounded by a strong lion exhibit and village area with amenities. So I strongly presume that they would make more attractions in that area so Asia was more accessible, which also bringing maybe some bigger-ticket Asian animals since they don't have Asian elephants anymore.
 
They have already laid the cement going to condor ridge, it was just poured when I was out there this weekend. It was a bit of a windy trail, I thought that they were making space for a few animal exhibits.

I never hear anything about the Asian tram, I wish they would say something about it but it has been years and I'm starting to wonder if it will even be started in the next five years.

I just realized that the park isn't raising any money for an exhibit right now, I wonder if they are just focusing on Africa rocks at the zoo and there not going to announce much more until all the funds are raised for that.

Both the park and seaworld are opening up big attractions this year, I think they might even be in the same month, I wonder which one will bring in more tourist? I got to admit that I am a little more excited about the seaworld exhibit now that there isn't going to be anything but tigers.
 
It would make sense that the park has no new developments currently planned, because they are making a new masterplan from what I understand.
 
Some corrections to your list. The African Plains exhibit that you "cannot see without a tour" is the same as what you've listed as African Plains. This exhibit is supposed to be East Africa too. It also still has Ugandan giraffe, not Masai. South Africa now has Masai. Dik dik are in with the Nyala too.

Grevy's Zebra are in the African veldt exhibit which previously held Addax. This is the exhibit behind the marsh with the vultures and blue crane. Barbary sheep are in the old Grevy's zebra exhibit on the hillside between Central and South Africa. It has been this way since I visited in late December and the same way when I visited today.

Southern ground hornbill are left of the lake that has the pelican islands. There is a small land area on the shore for them. Red lechwe are with the Bongo in the Central Africa Rainforest exhibit. No blesbok in Central Africa. Central Africa has Uganda Kob, Northern White Rhinoceros, Greater Kudu, & Roan Antelope. Scimitar horned Oryx are in North Africa still with Ankole and Barbary red deer. Barbary sheep are not with the Somolian wild ass anymore and it has been that way for quite some time.

The mountain exhibit has Nubian ibex and desert bighorn. They aren't mentioned in the tour at all but I spotted them with my camera lens. There are Bactrian camels with the Przewalksi's wild horse on the hillside exhibit by condor ridge as well.
 
Thanks Otter for the correction, btw if you go back and read I wrote

"Africa Plains Enclosure that is just before the Asia Enclosure that can’t be seen without a behind the scenes tour"

I should have phrased it better, I meant that the Asia enclosure required the behind the scenes tour.

I thought the driver was wrong when he said Masai giraffe, thanks for the correction.
 
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