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A little bit of news from the Slimbridge amphibians Instagram page that may be of interest - as part of the 'Spring to Life' event at Slimbridge, ten extra pop-up enclosures for amphibians will be on display from 25th May to 9th June. Among the species mentioned are Amazon milk frogs, Anatolian newts and fire salamanders, with smooth newts also signed in the photographs.
Amphibians Jay Redbond on Instagram: “Pop up Spring to Life exhibits are up, we have an extra 10 enclosures. They will be on display from today until the 9th June. You can see…”

Also, does anyone know what stage of development the Lake Titicaca water frogs arrived at Chester in (adults, metamorphosed subadults, tadpoles)? As the page also includes a photograph of a Lake Titicaca water frog tadpole.
Amphibians Jay Redbond on Instagram: “Guess the Tadpole??? I will give you a clue, they come from a large lake on a mountain in South America. #slimbridgeamphibians #amphibians…”
 
Dozens (the exact number is not given) of head-started Eurasian curlew chicks have been released onto the reserve at Slimbridge, with hopes they will join the local Severn Vale population. The eggs originated from nests on military airbases in Norfolk which would have been destroyed under license to protect air safety.

More information is included in the link below:
Slimbridge news | WWT
 
Visited today and saw two new developments for the first time, one finished the other nearly complete. They continue the shift away from keeping a diverse collection of waterfowl and a move towards themed areas highlighting the in-situ work that WWT does.

Arctic tundra is an are of 'tundra' with three pools overlooked by a replica research hut. it tells the story of the trust's work with Bewick's swans in the wild. There aren't any Bewick's swans at present but there are some two dimensional cutouts placed around the pools so you can sit in a pretend research cabin and look at pretend swans and use a lot of imagination.

Mission Possible (not quite finished) replaces the Asian ducks pond with a Hawaiian golf course. The several Asian species that once lived there are to be replaced by just one species...the Hawaiian goose. Again there is a theme set around the trust's work, this time it's involvement in preserving the Nene. Visitors will be able to wonder around the golf course and feed the geese, however, this will put them in direct competition with my local park which gets very busy at weekends with families who feed the Canada geese with the duck food sold in the park cafe for £1.00
 
Well at least it sounds quite interesting *cough cough I’m looking at you London zoo cough cough* also, Hawaiian geese are my favourite bird :)
 
Following on from the 'Bird Gardens Scotland' thread which mentions among other species, that 'Ashy-headed geese are being received from Slimbridge.' I have not seen Ashy-headed geese at Slimbridge on my last two visits, though I've looked for them at the individual pens where all the aggressive sheldgeese are kept in individual pairs. Ruddy-headed-yes, Ashy-headed-no. Does anyone know exactly where they are at Slimbridge?
 
Pertinax said:
Following on from the 'Bird Gardens Scotland' thread which mentions among other species, that 'Ashy-headed geese are being received from Slimbridge.' I have not seen Ashy-headed geese at Slimbridge on my last two visits, though I've looked for them at the individual pens where all the aggressive sheldgeese are kept in individual pairs. Ruddy-headed-yes, Ashy-headed-no. Does anyone know exactly where they are at Slimbridge?
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I've not seen them there in a long time, certainly on my last visits in '19 and '18 I didn't find them. There was a mention on the Zoo chat Europe challenge last year that someone had seen and counted them on said challenge in Slimbridge, though I couldn't see them. They may well be in one of the off show breeding pens.
 
Pertinax said:
They were last year...
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And early this year as well. I really can't imagine Slimbridge moving such an important Anseriform away from the collection so perhaps the question should be 'are they still on show'. Unless they all died from Freckled Duck Flu.
 
They were supposed to be moved to Bird Garden Scotland I wonder if it's just a pair or all of them.
 
Many thanks folks did wonder because as was said on here earlier Slimbridge were going to down size the collection.
 
I was told they are reorganising their collection plan so there may be species leaving and arriving.
 
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