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Ajkwba

Ajkwba

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Nowhere appropriate to post this so have started a new thread.

The King Penguins are now all in moult and in heavy courtship mode, expecting the first eggs in the next 2-4 weeks, will keep you posted :D

We will be recieving 10 fertile Greater Flamingo eggs from Slimbridge for hand rearing towards the end of April. This came about from the Flamingo Focus Group meeting early in the year.

The Tropical House renovation continues at a pace. Instead of being a walkthrough house as in the past, this will now include exhibits for invertebrates, fish, amphibians, reptile and mammals...oh and of course birds :p. The theme for the building is the egg so other features will include incubators, hand rearing videos, nest box cameras etc


New arrivals include 8 Humboldt Penguins from Newquay (all 08 birds), a female Red Billed Toucan from Broxbourne, a Blue & Gold Macaw from the National Parrot Sanctuary, Violaceous Touraco & Red Crested Cardinal from private breeders and a pair of Balis from Chester


On the nesting side the Turtle Doves have hatched their first chick of the year. The Humboldts, Crowned Plovers and Blue Magpies are on eggs and the Trumpeter Hornbills are 'mudding' in :)

If people would like, I will try and post photos of any Penguin/Flamingo chicks as they develop?

Fingers crossed for a bumper year
 
There is at least one person, really interested to follow the pinguin / flamingo chicks development through your photos.

Could you maybe also elaborate a little bit on the current status of flamingo colonies in Birdland (size, breeding, future plans...)?
 
Birdland currently houses 3 flamingo species:

8.10 Greater
3.3 Caribbean (Housed with greaters)
4.4.3 Chilean
 
Why did you receive all of Newquays penguins, have they given up on keeping them?
 
The greaters had their first eggs and chicks in 2003 and have hatched a total of 4 eggs in all, although no chicks survived past 9 months (2 died during hatched, 1 of a calcium deficiency and the 4th drowned at 9 months of age). In 2007 the nest island flooded and there were no eggs last year.

The Caribbeans laid for the first time in 2007 and the 3 pairs produced an egg each in the past 2 years, none fertile.

The Chileans have shown no interest.

For the greater/Carib. group their enclosure includes natural river with 1 nest island which is soil/clay with water pumped between the nests. Future plans are to dredge the river (still a lot of rubbish from the 2007 floods being removed every month) and to develop a 2nd nest island. There is also talk of exchanging the 11 Chileans for 11 Caribbeans and developing that group.
 
The Newquay Penguins were all 08 birds which we were recommended to take by the studbook. Their birds were already on eggs again
 
Oh chicks from 2008? I thought you meant 0.8, as in all their females. My mistake lol.
 
Do you have a species list you could send to me Ajkwba?
 
Ajkwba said:
The greaters had their first eggs and chicks in 2003 and have hatched a total of 4 eggs in all, although no chicks survived past 9 months (2 died during hatched, 1 of a calcium deficiency and the 4th drowned at 9 months of age). In 2007 the nest island flooded and there were no eggs last year.

The Caribbeans laid for the first time in 2007 and the 3 pairs produced an egg each in the past 2 years, none fertile.

The Chileans have shown no interest.

For the greater/Carib. group their enclosure includes natural river with 1 nest island which is soil/clay with water pumped between the nests. Future plans are to dredge the river (still a lot of rubbish from the 2007 floods being removed every month) and to develop a 2nd nest island. There is also talk of exchanging the 11 Chileans for 11 Caribbeans and developing that group.
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For flamingos it is important to have a representative group of birds. Both the Carribean and Chilean flamingos do not conform to that scenario. Another worrying fact is that the greaters and Caribbeans are kept together and pose hybridisation risks.

Is there any indication when the Chileans might be moved out and a new island for Carribeans and a greater flock would be put up?
 
Thanks for the details. :) It looks like the awaited "package" from Slimbridge has the highest importance for the future of its species at your facility. It could really make the difference and lead to a nice, sustaining greater flamingo colony there. Hopefully most of those chicks will do it, good luck!

I´m just curious what led to the decision/discussion to phase out the chileans in favour of Caribbeans, and not the oposite way? Is it maybe because of their non-interest in breeding so far?
 
Jana;156844 I´m just curious what led to the decision/discussion to phase out the chileans in favour of Caribbeans said:
I believe that is the case.

It was discussed at the start of the year about mving the Chileans on, have heard no more since. I think the second island will be developed after this years breeding season.

With the hybridising they were first mixed 2 years ago and monitored very closely. The 6 Rosys form 3 definite pairs
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Stock list:

Double Wattled Cassowary
Greater Rhea
King Penguin
Humboldt Penguin
Pink Backed Pelican
Marabou Stork
White Stork
Hammerkop
African Spoonbill
Sacred Ibis
Waldrapp Ibis
Puna Ibis
Greater Flamingo
Caribbean Flamingo
Chilean Flamingo
Black Swan
Black Necked Swan
Coscoroba Swan
Fulvous Tree Duck
Ross' Goose
Eider
Indian Spotbill Duck
Chestnut Teal
Madagascan Teal
Striated Caracara
Bare Faced Curassow
Northern Helmeted Curassow
Scaled Quail
Roul Roul Partridge
Common Hill Partridge
Temmincks Tragopan
Edwards Pheasant
Red Junglefowl
Grey Peacock Pheasant
Palawan Peacock Pheasant
Golden Pheasant
Siamese Fireback Pheasant
White Naped Crane
Demoiselle Crane
Stanley Crane
Grey Crowned Crane
Red Legged Seriema
Black Winged Stilt
Avocet
Stone Curlew
Egyptian Plover
Crowned Plover
Blacksmith Plover
Masked Plover
Southern Lapwing
Ruff
Redshank
Turtle Dove
Red Turtle Dove
Black Winged Ground Dove
Crested Pigeon
Bronzewing Pigeon
Wonga Pigeon
Diamond Dove
Nicobar Pigeon
Bartlett's Dove
Sulawesi Dove
Victoria Crowned Pogeon
Pied Imperial Pigeon
Green Imperial Pigeon
Green Naped Lorikeet
Red Lory
White Cockatoo
Moluccan Cockatoo
African Grey
Scarlet Macaw
Blue & Gold Macaw
Military Macaw
Red Fronted Macaw
Golden Conure
Wagler's Conure
Yellow Shouldered Amazon
Red Crested Touraco
Violaceous Touraco
Buffon's Touraco
White Faced Scops Owl
Spectacled Owl
Eurasian Eagle Owl
Snowy Owl
Burrowing Owl
Kookaburra
Carmine Bee-Eater
Lilac-Breasted Roller
Blue Bellied Roller
Trumpeter Hornbill
Tarictic Hornbill
Southern Ground Hornbill
Crowned Hornbill
Bearded Barbet
Red Billed Toucan
Lesser Kiskadee
Chinese Bulbul
Blue Winged Minla
Red Crested Cardinal
Silver Beaked Tanager
Desert Finch
Beautiful Rosefinch
Zebra Finch
Bengalese Finch
Java Sparrow
Weaver
Black Throated Laughing Thrush
White Throated Laughing Thrush
Red Winged Laughing Thrush
Red Tailed Laughing Thrush
Red Winged Starling
Bali Mynah
Hill Mynah
Red Billed Starling
Wattled Starling
Red Billed Blue Pie
Grey Tree Pie
Azure Winged Magpie
Sanblas Jay
White Tailed Jay


As of 31.3.09
 
Slight Flamingo change of plan. We have just taken delivery of 4 fertile Greater Flamingo eggs from Slimbridge and will be receiving juvenile birds at the end of the year. 2 of the eggs are pipping now :D Photos/update to follow

Re. the Caribbeans - they are being moved away from the Greaters to join our none breeding group of Chileans later this week
 
The first 2 flamingo eggs have hatched and are looking healthy (fingers crossed)

We also have the first 2 King Penguin eggs of the year
 
...yes, fingers crossed!

Could you upload some photos? I can´t wait to see those newly hatched chicks. :)
 
Yes fingers crossed for the kings, this is the last breeding group (at the moment), of king penguins in the country as the birds at Edinburgh have not produced for a few years now
 
Very nice video and photos! Please keep us up to date, how they are developing.
 
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