Birdland Park & Gardens News from Birdland

Communityzoo said:
Current information on the Birdland site states that there are only 3 females in the birdland group of 13, I'm not sure how many of these have bred/are of breeding age.
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Do we deduce Birdland still have the same 3 females or more than that now? According to the Mail article, six eggs were laid, of which three are fertile.

Do Kings lay a single egg, or can they lay two?
 
Evening all. We have 8.4 adult birds at present. All 4 females paired and laid, with two pairs producing a second clutch. Both chicks from the same pair. A 3rd egg was fertile (first for both adults) but started hatching 10 days early and mispositioned and didn't survive.

Both chicks are being hand reared and so far so good. Lots of pics and video on one of our penguins facebook page, check out Spike the King Penguin
 
Ajkwba said:
Evening all. We have 8.4 adult birds at present. All 4 females paired and laid, with two pairs producing a second clutch.
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Hi, are the Birdland King penguins still part of the ESB? If so, what is Birdland's relationship to the recommendations agreed in the article below?:

http://www.eaza.net/News/EAZA_Magazine/EAZA NEWS Magazine/ZQ84.pdf

It would be a shame if the chicks are male, as has been the trend in the wider captive population in recent years, but it is a very encouraging sign that two have hatched this year.
 
We are part of the ESB, whether we are thought of as a core breeding institution is unknown. Our birds have always paired differently each year (except for one pair) and all but one young male have attempted to breed so not convinced on the one to one ratio theory.
 
Hope to re-visit Birdland in the next couple of weeks but after looking at Zootierliste I noticed a large influx of new species so I would be very grateful if anyone can confirm the list below as being the correct species for the collection –


African spoonbill

Ambon red lory

Axolotl

Bali mynah (Rothschild's mynah)

Bare-faced curassow

Bearded Barbet

Bernier's teal (Madagascar teal)

Black swan

Black-breasted thrush

Black-necked swan

Blacksmith lapwing

Black-throated laughingthrush (No Subspecific status)

Black-winged ground-dove*

Black-winged stilt

Blue crane (Paradise crane) (Stanley crane)

Blue-and-yellow macaw

Blue-bellied roller

Brown-breasted barbet

Burrowing Owl (No Subspecific status)

Central bearded dragon

Chestnut teal

Chilean flamingo

Cinnamon teal

Common bronzewing

Common eider duck (European eider duck)

Common redshank

Congo Grey Parrot

Corn snake

Coscoroba swan

Crested dove

Crested wood partridge (Crested Partridge) (Roul-roul)

Crowned hornbill

Crowned lapwing

Demoiselle crane

Desert finch

Diamond dove

Eastern grey-crowned crane (East African crowned crane)

Edwards's pheasant

Egyptian plover

Emerald dove (Green-winged pigeon) (No Subspecific status)

Emu

European Eagle-owl

European harvest mouse (Eurasian harvest mouse)

European thick-knee

European Turtle dove

European white stork

Fulvous whistling duck

Golden conure

Golden pheasant

Greater flamingo

Greater Hill Mynah

Greater rhea (American rhea)

Green and black poison dart frog

Green anole

Green aracari

Grey Peacock-Pheasant (no subspecific status)

Grey treepie (Himalayan treepie) (No Subspecific status)*

Hamerkop (Hammerhead)

Humboldt penguin

Indian spot-billed duck

Iris glossy-starling (Emerald starling)

Japanese quail (domestic) (Japanese laying quail)

Java sparrow

King penguin

Laughing Kookaburra

Lesser kiskadee flycatcher

Light-vented bulbul (Chinese bulbul)

Lilac-breasted roller

Luzon bleeding-heart (Bleeding-heart pigeon)

Marabou stork

Masked Lapwing

Mexican green military macaw

Mindanao bleeding-heart

Moluccan cockatoo

Moluccan rainbow lorikeet

Nicobar pigeon

Northern Carmine bee-eater (Blue-throated carmine bee-eater) (Nubian Bee-eater)

Northern Helmeted curassow

Northern white-faced scops-owl

Orange-headed ground-thrush (subspecies: melli)

Palawan Peacock-Pheasant

Peking robin (Red-billed leiothrix)

Pied avocet

Pied Imperial-Pigeon

Pink-backed pelican

Puna ibis

Red flamingo (Caribbean flamingo)

Red turtle dove (No Subspecific status)

Red-billed Blue Magpie (Blue Magpie) (no subspecific status)

Red-billed starling (Silky starling)

Red-crested Cardinal

Red-crested Pochard

Red-crested turaco

Red-fronted macaw

Red-legged seriema (Crested seriema)

Red-necked Sulawesi ground-dove

Red-tailed laughingthrush

Red-winged laughingthrush

Red-winged starling

Ross's goose

Ruff

Sacred ibis

Scaled quail

Scarlet macaw (Red-and-yellow macaw)

Scarlet-chested parrot (Splendid grass-parakeet)

Scarlet-fronted conure

Senegal turaco (Buffon`s turaco)

Siamese fireback pheasant

Silver-beaked tanager (Maroon tanager)

Snowy Owl

Southern Cassowary (Double-wattled Cassowary)

Southern ground hornbill

Southern lapwing (Chilean lapwing)

Southern masked-weaver (African masked-weaver)*

Spectacled Owl (No Subspecific status)

Spix's guan

Splendid glossy-starling

Striated caracara (Forster's caracara)

Sunda Green Imperial-Pigeon*

Tarictic hornbill (no species or subspecies status)

Tawny frogmouth (Freckled frogmouth)

Temminck's tragopan

Timneh Grey Parrot

Timor zebra finch

Trumpeter hornbill

Victoria crowned-pigeon

Violet plantain-eater (Violet turaco)

Von der Decken's hornbill

Waldrapp (Northern bald ibis)

Wattled starling

Western grey plantain-eater

White cockatoo

White-faced whistling duck

White-lined tanager

White-naped crane (Japanese white-necked crane)

White-throated laughingthrush

White-throated orange-headed ground-trush*

Yellow-shouldered amazon
 
Edited the list so up to date (I think!). Hope you enjoy your day

Abyssian ground hornbill
African spoonbill
Ambon red lory
Azure wing magpie
Axolotl
Bare-faced curassow
Bernier's teal (Madagascar teal)
black-breasted thrush
Black-necked swan
Blacksmith lapwing
Black-throated laughingthrush (No Subspecific status)
Blue crane (Paradise crane) (Stanley crane)
Blue Wing Minla
Blue-and-yellow macaw
Budgets Frog
Burrowing Owl (No Subspecific status)
Cape Teal
Cattle Egret
Central bearded dragon
Comb duck
Common bronzewing
Common redshank
Corn snake
Coscoroba swan
Crested wood partridge (Crested Partridge) (Roul-roul)
Crowned hornbill
Crowned lapwing
Demoiselle crane
Desert finch
Eastern grey-crowned crane (East African crowned crane)
Edwards's pheasant
Emerald dove (Green-winged pigeon) (No Subspecific status)
Emu
European Eagle-owl
European harvest mouse (Eurasian harvest mouse)
European thick-knee
European Turtle dove
European white stork
Fulvous whistling duck
Golden conure
Golden pheasant
Greater flamingo
Greater rhea (American rhea)
Grey Peacock-Pheasant (no subspecific status)
Hamerkop (Hammerhead)
Hawaiian Goose
Humboldt penguin
Japanese quail (domestic) (Japanese laying quail)
Java sparrow
King penguin
Laughing Kookaburra
Light-vented bulbul (Chinese bulbul)
Little Egret
Luzon bleeding-heart (Bleeding-heart pigeon)
Marabou stork
Masked Lapwing
Mexican green military macaw
Mindanao bleeding-heart
Moluccan cockatoo
Moluccan rainbow lorikeet
Nicobar pigeon
Northern Carmine bee-eater (Blue-throated carmine bee-eater) (Nubian Bee-eater)
Northern Helmeted curassow
Northern white-faced scops-owl
Orange-headed ground-thrush (subspecies: melli)
Palawan Peacock-Pheasant
Peking robin (Red-billed leiothrix)
Pied avocet
Pied Imperial-Pigeon
Pink-backed pelican
Puna ibis
Red flamingo (Caribbean flamingo)
Red turtle dove (No Subspecific status)
Red-billed Blue Magpie (Blue Magpie) (no subspecific status)
Red-billed starling (Silky starling)
Red-crested Cardinal
Red Rumped Parakeet
Red-crested turaco
Red-fronted macaw
Red-necked Sulawesi ground-dove
Red-winged starling
Royal Python
Ruff
Sacred ibis
Scaled quail
Scarlet macaw (Red-and-yellow macaw)
Scarlet-fronted conure
Siamese fireback pheasant
Silver-beaked tanager (Maroon tanager)
Snowy Owl
Southern Cassowary (Double-wattled Cassowary)
Southern ground hornbill
Southern lapwing (Chilean lapwing)
Southern masked-weaver (African masked-weaver)*
Spectacled Owl
Striated caracara (Forster's caracara)
Sulcata Tortoise
Sunda Green Imperial-Pigeon*
Tawny frogmouth (Freckled frogmouth)
Temminck's tragopan
Timneh Grey Parrot
Timor zebra finch
Trumpeter hornbill
Violet plantain-eater (Violet turaco)
Waldrapp (Northern bald ibis)
Western grey plantain-eater
White cockatoo
White Bellied Go Away bird
White-faced whistling duck
White-naped crane (Japanese white-necked crane)
White-throated orange-headed ground-trush*
Yellow-shouldered amazon[/QUOTE]
 
Ajkwba said:
Edited the list so up to date (I think!). Hope you enjoy your day

Abyssian ground hornbill
African spoonbill
Ambon red lory
Azure wing magpie
Axolotl
Bare-faced curassow
Bernier's teal (Madagascar teal)
black-breasted thrush
Black-necked swan
Blacksmith lapwing
Black-throated laughingthrush (No Subspecific status)
Blue crane (Paradise crane) (Stanley crane)
Blue Wing Minla
Blue-and-yellow macaw
Budgets Frog
Burrowing Owl (No Subspecific status)
Cape Teal
Cattle Egret
Central bearded dragon
Comb duck
Common bronzewing
Common redshank
Corn snake
Coscoroba swan
Crested wood partridge (Crested Partridge) (Roul-roul)
Crowned hornbill
Crowned lapwing
Demoiselle crane
Desert finch
Eastern grey-crowned crane (East African crowned crane)
Edwards's pheasant
Emerald dove (Green-winged pigeon) (No Subspecific status)
Emu
European Eagle-owl
European harvest mouse (Eurasian harvest mouse)
European thick-knee
European Turtle dove
European white stork
Fulvous whistling duck
Golden conure
Golden pheasant
Greater flamingo
Greater rhea (American rhea)
Grey Peacock-Pheasant (no subspecific status)
Hamerkop (Hammerhead)
Hawaiian Goose
Humboldt penguin
Japanese quail (domestic) (Japanese laying quail)
Java sparrow
King penguin
Laughing Kookaburra
Light-vented bulbul (Chinese bulbul)
Little Egret
Luzon bleeding-heart (Bleeding-heart pigeon)
Marabou stork
Masked Lapwing
Mexican green military macaw
Mindanao bleeding-heart
Moluccan cockatoo
Moluccan rainbow lorikeet
Nicobar pigeon
Northern Carmine bee-eater (Blue-throated carmine bee-eater) (Nubian Bee-eater)
Northern Helmeted curassow
Northern white-faced scops-owl
Orange-headed ground-thrush (subspecies: melli)
Palawan Peacock-Pheasant
Peking robin (Red-billed leiothrix)
Pied avocet
Pied Imperial-Pigeon
Pink-backed pelican
Puna ibis
Red flamingo (Caribbean flamingo)
Red turtle dove (No Subspecific status)
Red-billed Blue Magpie (Blue Magpie) (no subspecific status)
Red-billed starling (Silky starling)
Red-crested Cardinal
Red Rumped Parakeet
Red-crested turaco
Red-fronted macaw
Red-necked Sulawesi ground-dove
Red-winged starling
Royal Python
Ruff
Sacred ibis
Scaled quail
Scarlet macaw (Red-and-yellow macaw)
Scarlet-fronted conure
Siamese fireback pheasant
Silver-beaked tanager (Maroon tanager)
Snowy Owl
Southern Cassowary (Double-wattled Cassowary)
Southern ground hornbill
Southern lapwing (Chilean lapwing)
Southern masked-weaver (African masked-weaver)*
Spectacled Owl
Striated caracara (Forster's caracara)
Sulcata Tortoise
Sunda Green Imperial-Pigeon*
Tawny frogmouth (Freckled frogmouth)
Temminck's tragopan
Timneh Grey Parrot
Timor zebra finch
Trumpeter hornbill
Violet plantain-eater (Violet turaco)
Waldrapp (Northern bald ibis)
Western grey plantain-eater
White cockatoo
White Bellied Go Away bird
White-faced whistling duck
White-naped crane (Japanese white-necked crane)
White-throated orange-headed ground-trush*
Yellow-shouldered amazon
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Does this mean the Grey Treepie has gone?
 
I was wondering many thanks for the updated list so I take it the following are no longer within the collection -

Axolotl
Bali mynah (Rothschild's mynah)
Bearded Barbet
Black swan
Black-winged ground-dove*
Black-winged stilt
Blue-bellied roller
Brown-breasted barbet
Chestnut teal
Chilean flamingo
Cinnamon teal
Common eider duck (European eider duck)
Congo Grey Parrot
Crested dove
Egyptian plover
Greater Hill Mynah
Green and black poison dart frog
Green anole
Green aracari
Grey treepie (Himalayan treepie) (No Subspecific status)*
Indian spot-billed duck
Iris glossy-starling (Emerald starling)
Lesser kiskadee flycatcher
Lilac-breasted roller
Red-crested Pochard
Scarlet-chested parrot (Splendid grass-parakeet)
Senegal turaco (Buffon`s turaco)
Spix's guan
Splendid glossy-starling
Tarictic hornbill (no species or subspecies status)
Victoria crowned-pigeon
Von der Decken's hornbill
White-lined tanager
White-throated laughingthrush

any ideas as where or why they are no longer in the collection as there are some beautiful species here mind you there are so many still in the collection.
 
Ajkwba said:
Yes, the male died about a month ago having lost the female earlier this year as well :(
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Very sad news indeed - glad I got to see the species one last time in April this year :) I doubt I ever shall again. A lot of treasures gone overall - although some of the species on that list have been gone for some years I suspect!

In any case, I have now edited the ZTL page to reflect this information :) so it is now accurate.
 
Bali and axolotyl still here.

As tealovingdave has said, many of these have not been with us for quite some time (green aracari was about 10 years ago). Some species have died, others moved on. Should be getting lilac breasted rollers, black swan and Ross goose again soon
 
The King Penguin chick (hatched in 2014) has now been DNA sexed - It's a female, the first since 2006 :)
 
Had a very nice visit yesterday, the UK has been very hot in the last few days my car said it was 31 degrees :o .
-A few lifers for me like the Western Grey Plantain Eaters, White-Lined Tanager, Red-Billed Starling, Siamese Fireback Pheasant and Black-Throated Laughingthrush
-Also, saw King Penguin for the first time since I was last at Edinburgh (2014)
-A lot of species in the zoo where unlabeled including the Desert Finch, which I assumed had gone so didn't bother spend time looking for it but it wasn't till I messaged the zoo asking if they still has them that they confirmed 2 are still about in the Desert House!
-The 'Birds of Africa' section was by far my favorite part especially the aviary housing the Ground Hornbill (Southern and Abyssinian) side by side making it easy for visitors to make comparisons.
-Both the Avocets and Edward's Pheasants had chicks, the Edward's were especially tiny
-The zoo also had some very nice Lapwing and Plover species as well as Hornbills with the glimpse I got of the Crowned Hornbill.
All I will say is that the zoo isn't in the location I thought it would be- I thought it was in just a small town where not many people visited but the town was packed! Bourton-on-the-Water is a lot more touristy than I thought it would be but it is arguably one of the prettiest and beautiful towns in England and the last place I would expect to find a zoo!
 
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