Mixed species exhibit ideas

Will guans/chachalacas leave small finches and tanagers and their offspring in normal aviary alone or will they try to catch or swallow them like other big galliformes?
 
Paul.Haerle said:
Will guans/chachalacas leave small finches and tanagers and their offspring in normal aviary alone or will they try to catch or swallow them like other big galliformes?
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I've never heard of any case of guans and/or chachalacas eating smaller birds, as their diet is mostly composed of fruit and small insects, so I believe this should work. But just in case any kind of predation could happen, both the passerines and galliformes should have a large exhibit with a good ammount of vegetation, giving the smaller birds more places to hide and escape.
 
Could I possibly mix Eastern Chipmunk and Eastern Cottontail with smaller songbird species (along the lines of chickadees, sparrows, and buntings, as well as Northern Cardinal)?
Alternatively, could I house the aforementioned chipmunk and cottontail with North American Porcupine and a more arboreal squirrel species (probably a Fox or American Red Squirrel)? This mix would happen without the birds, of course.
 
Van Beal said:
Could I possibly mix Eastern Chipmunk and Eastern Cottontail with smaller songbird species (along the lines of chickadees, sparrows, and buntings, as well as Northern Cardinal)?
Alternatively, could I house the aforementioned chipmunk and cottontail with North American Porcupine and a more arboreal squirrel species (probably a Fox or American Red Squirrel)? This mix would happen without the birds, of course.
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First is probably fine if you aren’t breeding the birds. I imagine the second would work.
 
Persephone said:
First is probably fine if you aren’t breeding the birds.
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It depends on the passerine species. Passerines that are same-sized or bigger than a thrush (except cardinals, crossbills and cardeulid grosbeaks) should work, while smaller birds like tits or buntings would be stressed.
 
Paul.Haerle said:
It depends on the passerine species. Passerines that are same-sized or bigger than a thrush (except cardinals, crossbills and cardeulid grosbeaks) should work, while smaller birds like tits or buntings would be stressed.
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I guess it depends on the size of the aviary. There’s a chipmunk in Columbus’s right now and, while they are trying to remove it since it’s a wild animal that broke in, I didn’t see the birds react to it. That’s a fairly big aviary though.
 
Any species of small South American fish that would mix well with Matamata Turtles? Thx u in advance!

Edit: Just saw their diet consists of small fish lol, would still love to hear options of fish that the Matamata Turtle wouldn't eat.
 
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ZooBoy99 said:
Any species of small South American fish that would mix well with Matamata Turtles? Thx u in advance!

Edit: Just saw their diet consists of small fish lol, would still love to hear options of fish that the Matamata Turtle wouldn't eat.
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Pretty much any small, fast fish species. Probably some of them will be eaten but that's usually the case with combining fish with predatory species
 
Would the following mixes work:

- Chilean burrowing parrot and Red-fronted macaw

- Plum-headed parakeet, Ruddy shelduck, Silver pheasant, Indian star tortoise and Eurasian collared dove

- Sulfur-crested cockatoo(or Galah), Cockatiel and Common bronzewing

- Crested partridge, Luzon-bleeeding heart, Victoria crowned-pigeon, Bali myna, Java sparrow, Mandarin duck and Chattering lory
 
Velas said:
Would the following mixes work:

- Chilean burrowing parrot and Red-fronted macaw

- Plum-headed parakeet, Ruddy shelduck, Silver pheasant, Indian star tortoise and Eurasian collared dove

- Sulfur-crested cockatoo(or Galah), Cockatiel and Common bronzewing

- Crested partridge, Luzon-bleeeding heart, Victoria crowned-pigeon, Bali myna, Java sparrow, Mandarin duck and Chattering lory
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Should all work
 
Could I mix Keas with Paradise shelducks in a walkthrough exhibit, or would the parrots be agressive to the waterfowl? If so, would the mix work if I swap out the Keas for Kakarikis?
 
Velas said:
Could I mix Keas with Paradise shelducks in a walkthrough exhibit, or would the parrots be agressive to the waterfowl? If so, would the mix work if I swap out the Keas for Kakarikis?
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Birdpark Marlow tried this mix, but it didn’t work; the Keas attacked/bullied the Paradise Shelducks. Karakarikis will be bullied by them too. Laughing Kookaburras could work instead.
 
Paul.Haerle said:
Birdpark Marlow tried this mix, but it didn’t work; the Keas attacked/bullied the Paradise Shelducks. Karakarikis will be bullied by them too. Laughing Kookaburras could work instead.
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The shelducks would bully the Kakarikis? That part of your answer got me confused, since the Keas would be swapped by the Kakarikis, and not the waterfowl.

Thanks for the suggestion of the kookaburra, but the idea is that the exhibit would only hold New Zealand native species.
 
Velas said:
The shelducks would bully the Kakarikis? That part of your answer got me confused, since the Keas would be swapped by the Kakarikis, and not the waterfowl.
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I meant Keas would attack Kakarikis. Kookaburras are at least introduced to New Zealand.
Edit: I have read your original message wrong, Kakarikis and Paradise Shelducks would work good together.
 
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