Chester Zoo Rare parrot breeding centre

Writhedhornbill

Writhedhornbill

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Who has been to this exhibit, either on show or off show areas, and what do people think?

I like the new Lilacine amazon parrot aviary, as it is heavily planted, and the parrots have not been pulling the bamboo down yet. According to the keepers this is quite rare and usually they love destroying any foliage available.

I've been to the offshow area twice, and i like the species that the zoo keeps, Red and blue lories are my favourites. The remaining blue eyed cockatoo is a really special cockatoo, as he has such a good relationship with his keepers who will talk to him through the mesh as they pass by. He is given special attention apparently.

On the parrot section at Chester, Stella's lorikeets and Hyacinth macaws are favourites.
 
were all the parrot species from the old house moved here. i havent seen the off show area, how is it like?

my faourite parot species are hyacinth macaws and palm cocktoos
 
The palm cockatoos have now left the zoos parrot collection.

Now there are:

red and blue lories
A blue eyed cockatoo
white tailed black cockatoo
5.1 red vented cockatoos
There is a young hyacinth housed here
2.1 Saint Lucia amazons. There is one pair and a male housed on his own. This male used to be housed in islands of danger, but moved to make way for the taricitc hornbills. He is said to be better behaved.
There are also two pairs of Blue throated Macaws
I think that there's a few pairs of Golden(queen of bavaria conures in here). They were in the curassow aviary near the Hyacnths.

I think that's it, but I'm not 100% sure.....
 
thanks i was wondering what had happened to the st lucia amazon in the islands in danger. I was expecting a little more lorry and lorikket species though such as red and blue lorys
 
There are still Yellow backed chattering lorikeets in the round aviaries by the Island in Danger building. I did forget to mention the mount apo lorikeets that were kept off show in the tropical realm, are now kept in the rare parrot breeding centre with a pair of male philippine red vented cockatoos.
 
I haven't seen them yet. Two males arrived last year from Antwerp. This species was bred in 2006 for the first time in the UK by a private breeder.

The photo shows the parrot breeding centre in 2005. A walkway has since been added to the Lilacine Amazon Parrot flight, which is the large one in the centre of the picture. Along the path are signs informing visitors of the work Chester Zoo does with wild parrots.

The enclosure on the right is for bongos.
 

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MARK said:
Blue headed Macaws? have any of you guys got a pic of one?
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Isn't this also sometimes called Coulon's Macaw? I believe it is one of the smaller macaws, like the Illiger's or Hahn's which are more like Conures than the big macaws.

I think it may be a plain green colour with a 'blue head'(surprise, surprise) and a small patch of dark bare skin on the face.. Am I right or wrong?
 
grantsmb said:
Isn't this also sometimes called Coulon's Macaw? I believe it is one of the smaller macaws, like the Illiger's or Hahn's which are more like Conures than the big macaws.

I think it may be a plain green colour with a 'blue head'(surprise, surprise) and a small patch of dark bare skin on the face.. Am I right or wrong?
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Grant, you are absolutely right.
 
Writhedhornbill said:
The palm cockatoos have now left the zoos parrot collection.

Now there are:

red and blue lories
A blue eyed cockatoo
white tailed black cockatoo
5.1 red vented cockatoos
There is a young hyacinth housed here
2.1 Saint Lucia amazons. There is one pair and a male housed on his own. This male used to be housed in islands of danger, but moved to make way for the taricitc hornbills. He is said to be better behaved.
There are also two pairs of Blue throated Macaws
I think that there's a few pairs of Golden(queen of bavaria conures in here). They were in the curassow aviary near the Hyacnths.

I think that's it, but I'm not 100% sure.....
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The Whitw-tailed Cockatoo has left the collection now don`t know where it has gone.Was very impressed with the off show Parrots when I had a look round at the start of August this year,the staff were hand rearing a Princess of Wales Parrakeet.
 
jelle said:
Have the red-vented cockatoo bred at Chester at all? I seem to remember they had 3.3 at one point ....
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They now have 5.1. The males are agressive and harrass the females. This happens in the wild too. A compatible pair was put together last year which it was hoped would breed this year, but it seems as if they have not. I'll know more when I've been to the Adopter's Day on 14th October.

I don't know if anything has yet bred in the new parrot breeding centre, unless the Quen of Bavria Conures bred there this year.
 
bongorob said:
They now have 5.1. The males are agressive and harrass the females. This happens in the wild too.
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Yes, sometimes the male of a pair will suddenly turn on the hen and injure, or even kill it. It seems possibly to be redirected aggression when there are no other outlets for this in a captive setting.
 
ISIS lists 3.3.1 at Chester, with 1 bred, but it's not been updated for birds for 5 weeks.
 
bongorob said:
They now have 5.1. The males are agressive and harrass the females. This happens in the wild too.
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Does Chester Zoo not have a large aviary for the females to choose their own mate (like what is sometimes done with hornbills at Avifauna and black vultures at Planckendael)? That way the females can better avoid the antagonism of the males.
 
Yes, with ecuadorian amazon parrots. That is the only aviary on show in the parrot house. The red vented female, is sometimes allowed out into a corridor, over looking the male red vented cockatoos. The aviary she sits next to the longest, is the male that she'll be put in with, it still can go wrong!

The male great indian hornbill at Chester (I think the one in the elephant house) went to avifauna, and picked his mate. The male is about 30, and the female is about 40!
 
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