Melbourne Zoo Melbourne Zoo - Great Flight Aviary

[nanoboy]

(I wouldn't imagine those aviculturists lucky enough to be breeding them would be selling through shops!)

Yeah I would have thought so too, until I came across quite a few videos on YouTube of Palm Cockatoos being sold in American pet shops! But to be fair, I didn't come across any red tails in pet shops.

I guess kc7gr will have to visit one of those zoos closer to Washington state.

 

[Chlidonias]

palm cockatoos are much more common in the USA than red-tailed black cockatoos

 

[nanoboy]

palm cockatoos are much more common in the USA than red-tailed black cockatoos

Now isn't that a shame? I can go to my local pet shop and buy a red tailed black cockatoo, yet it's illegal to keep a Palm Cockatoo here (a native parrot), and the only zoo that I can see one in Australia (that I know of) is Adelaide.

The grass is always greener on the other side.

 

[Chlidonias]

its all relative. Palm cockatoos are still rare in the USA, simply nowhere near as rare as red-tailed black cockatoos. The big difference is that palm cockatoos are native to Indonesian territories (i.e. Irian Jaya, the Aru Islands, etc) so there have been a lot of legal exports (and a lot more illegal ones) to the western hemisphere whereas red-tailed black cockatoos are endemic to Australia so apart from ones that left before the export bans came into effect only smuggled birds get out.

 

[nanoboy]

Hmmm..... I suppose the one on my shoulder here was from Indonesia then. (This was taken at the Kuala Lumpur Bird Park.)

Can anyone identify the other birds? I have a theory about the macaw and the lory, but let's see what you guys think.

 

[Chlidonias]

the macaw is a hybrid (I'd say military X blue and gold). I can't really see the lory well enough at that size, maybe a red lory?

 

[nanoboy]

the macaw is a hybrid (I'd say military X blue and gold). I can't really see the lory well enough at that size, maybe a red lory?

Yeah spot on I think. I suspect that the macaw was a milligold, and I am pretty sure it was a red lory. I am not sure what the raptor to the bottom right is though.

 

[Chlidonias]

the raptor's a picture on the T-shirt isn't it? It's a Brahminy kite in any case

 

[nanoboy]

the raptor's a picture on the T-shirt isn't it? It's a Brahminy kite in any case

Hmm... come to mention it, I can see how it appears that it's a print on my t-shirt. Nah, it's a real bird. Brahminy Kite it is then.

What about the 2 birds in the back, and the white cockatoo? (I know what kind of cockatoo it is, but not the others.) Apologies for the quality, as I took a screen-grab from Facebook.

 

[Chlidonias]

maybe a brown wood owl on the left and barred eagle owl on the right. I haven't got any books to hand just at the moment.

 

[nanoboy]

maybe a brown wood owl on the left and barred eagle owl on the right. I haven't got any books to hand just at the moment.

Ok, two owls is fine by me. The white cockatoo was an umbrella cockatoo.

This gives me an idea for a thread/game when I have some time later. I will do a harsh crop on some of my zoo animal pics, and you guys can go crazy trying to identify them.