Zoológico Simón Bolívar Simón Bolívar Zoo species list 08/2017

ralph

ralph

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After a recent visit, this is the species list for the zoo of San José.
I'll note the number of kept individuals as well as good as I can.
(Photos will come at a later time)


White-headed Capuchin Monkey (2)
Geoffroy’s Spider Monkey (8)
Hoffmann’s Two-Toed Sloth (just one)
Mexican tree porcupine (just one)
Grey Fox (saw just one but could be more)
Northern Raccoon (2)
White-nosed coati (4)
Greater Grison (just one)
Kinkajou (did not see)
Jaguar (just one)
Baird’s Tapir (just one)

Great Curassow (one male)
Black Guan (just one)
Crested Guan (2 but seperated)
Gray-headed chachalaca (Just 1)
Indian peafowl (one male)
Gray Hawk (Just one)
Swaison’s Hawk (Just one, unlabelled)
Bat Falcon (Just one)
Barn Owl (did not see)
Striped Owl (multiple)
Spectacled Owl (multiple)
Mottled Owl (multiple)
Tropical Screech-Owl (multiple)
Crimson-fronted parakeet (multiple)
Olive-throated parakeet (2)
Orange-chinned parakeet (Just one, unlabelled)
White-crowned parrot (3 or 4)
Yellow-naped parrot (3)
Red-lored parrot
White-fronted parrot
Mealy Parrot
Great Green Macaw (2)
Scarlet Macaw
Emerald Toucanet (Just one)
Collared Aracari (Just one)
Black-mandibled Toucan (Just one)
Painted bunting (Unlabelled)
Different unlabelled small passerine birds (possibly including breeding forms)


Various unlabelled turtles
Emperor boa (1)
Green vine snake (1)
Side-lined Palm Pitviper (2)
Tropical Rattlesnake (1)
Fer-de-Lance (1)
Eyelash Pitviper (2 x 1)
American crocodile (5)
Spectacled caiman (Unlabelled)
Strawberry poison frog
Blue-sided Tree Frog (Only saw tadpoles)

Saw some wildlife as well (white-winged dove, great kiskadee, blue-grey tanager, green heron, melodious blackbird, white-eared ground sparrow, gray-necked wood-rail, variegeted squirrel)
 
The smaller felines are gone? When I visited Simón Bolívar 2.5 years ago, I saw jaguarundis in a quite new enclosure (comparable to that of the jaguar) and one or maybe more ocelot and margay (I'm not sure about oncilla) in the cages near the raccoons.

In 2015, a species of forest falcon was kept in the raptor aviary near the entrance, although I didn't see one.
 
I looked it up in my travel report and in January 2015 Short-tailed Hawk (Buteo brachyurus), Broad-winged Hawk (B. platypterus) and Collared Forest Falcon (Micrastur semitorquatus) were kept together with Gray Hawk in the raptor aviary.
 
I didn't see a Collared Forest Falcon or Broad-winged Hawk. Its possible the hawk I saw was not a Swainsons but a Short-tailed I guess. I did only see it from the back.
Do you got a picture of the Short-tailed hawk you saw back in 2015? If it is the same individual then my ID is wrong.

7 raptors were labelled on the BoP aviaries (all on 1 sign), even though I saw only 3 different species. I assumed this was just a sign with general information about raptors and not an indication of kept species.
 
I have some pictures of the birds of prey and I'll look them up.
 
I've a couple of photos of birds of prey in SBZ and one with a Gray Hakw together with what seems to be a Broad-winged Hawk (others are of a Bat Falcon and a Ferruginous Pygmy-Owl). If you're interested, I can upload it into the gallery, but is not of great quality unfortunately.
 
Maybe the broad-winged hawk and pymy owl would be intersting to see as those are no longer kept. I uploaded pics of grey hawk and bat falcon myself recently.
 
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