Paultons Park Paultons Park

JamesB

JamesB

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hi, i am visiting Paultons Park today, i know they dont have alot of animals but if anyone wants any questions answered or some photos, please ask!
 
quick review:

i didnt have alot and i state "alot" of time to see all the birds but the collection is well exhibited and has some wonderful species, ive gathered a quick species list for anyone interested:

Birds

emu
rhea
subperb starling
white-faced tree duck
white stork
several types of hornbills
laughin thrushes
love birds
crowned pigeon
pinkbacked pelicans
chilean flamingos
blue and yellow macaws
scarlet macaws
kookabura (spelling?)
ural owl
toco toucan
storks
trumpeter hornbills
ground hornbills
humbolts penguins
helmeted guineafowl
Von der Decken's Hornbills

Others

Meerkats
Bennets Wallabies
Aldabra Giant Tortoise

and thats it....
 
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You beat be to the Punch
i am going tommorow, i am going to post some pictures of the animal exhibits
 
you beat me to it, im going tommorow, i will post some picture, they also keep Galapagos giant tortoise
 
Hey cat-man could you do a list of the hornbill species on show please, and tigerlemur guy thank you for your list too, any further thoughts on the collection, how it was housed, were most species in pairs or groups, and most important what YOU thought of the collection, thanks in advance.
 
im terrible at bird names...there were trumpeter hornbills, ground hornbills and prehaps some others...

the collection is small but very good, with very natural themed enclosures

the vultures even have cactuses
 
Thank you for that in depth review, what an insight it is like i have visited the park myself:p;)
 
Some years ago Paulton's had a large collection of Parrots, including a number of species of Macaws, Amazons, Cockatoos and similar. Have these all gone from their collection now?
 
your welcome kiang

and pertinax, yes the parrots has drastically declined, they only had the ones listed as far as i saw....
 
kiang said:
Hey cat-man could you do a list of the hornbill species on show please, and tigerlemur guy thank you for your list too, any further thoughts on the collection, how it was housed, were most species in pairs or groups, and most important what YOU thought of the collection, thanks in advance.
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When i go, i will perposly go round and look foryou!
 
its not galapagos tortoises cat-man, its Aldabra Giant Tortoise,

the collection is pretty small so i dont think a big review is really needed, i went yesterday for the rides mainly not the animals!

The japenese garden is the best area for bird-lovers, it has inside and outside enclosure with various plants and waterfeatures in the "small" tropcial house.

as pertinax said, alot of the birds seem to have left the collection, not sure why

penguin pool is decent, i have seen better

meerkat family had two babies with them and they have a very nice themed enclosure with indoors and outdoors housing

african aviary - one the biggest aviarys in the park, divided into two sections: one for ducks and one for cranes, guineafowl and hornbills etc
 
Many years ago they had a very extensive wildfowl collection but had big problems with predation so gave up on them .
 
Many years ago they also had species like Guanacos, Red Deer and maybe Rhea as well as a much larger parrot/bird collection than nowadays.
 
They still have rhea now, kept in a paddock with the wallabies. But yeah, they used to keep llamas, guanacos, red deer, fallow deer, pygmy goats and a pets corner containing pigs, chickens, chipmunks etc., until the F&M outbreak in 2001 after which they stopped keeping them.
 
what a silly mix - rheas and wallabies, when just over the path they have emus! they should really swap them over!

i think they have the penguins where the pets corner used to be
 
Tigerlemurguy said:
what a silly mix - rheas and wallabies, when just over the path they have emus! they should really swap them over!

i think they have the penguins where the pets corner used to be
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no, the penguins is where the bumper boats used to be
 
yes but just over the path is some wooden huts where the farm animals were, trust me i have a good memory
 
Just found out about this place. Apparently they have a good Hornbill collection. Does anyone know what species of Hornbill they have?
Is there anything else worth seeing, or anything unusual ?
 
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