Smithsonian National Zoo Smithsonian National Zoo News 2022

The Philippine croc is currently in one of the exhibits behind the reptile house.

Sounds like you saw most of the birds. Without factoring in avian flu, there's:
- Ostrich in former maned wolf exhibit in cheetah area
- Ruppell's griffon vulture in addax exhibit, rarely out
- Abyssinian ground hornbills with kudu
- VDD hornbill, green aracari in small mammal house
- Bald eagle exhibit by seals
- Common raven exhibit behind NARO
- Wood duck and another duck species I'm forgetting in with the beavers
- Hawk-headed parrot, green aracari (opposite sex from SMH ones), roseate spoonbill in Amazonia. Not sure if any of the other species still exist in there.
- Domestic chickens in farm area
 
TinoPup said:
- Hawk-headed parrot, green aracari (opposite sex from SMH ones), roseate spoonbill in Amazonia. Not sure if any of the other species still exist in there.
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There's also this species, though I don't remember the name.

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SusScrofa said:
I visited this zoo today. Great place.

I didn't see the Philippine Crocodile, is it supposed to be inside the reptile house? Didn't even see signage for it, the only crocodilians I saw were False Gharial and Cuban Crocodile inside and American Alligator outside by the front.
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As @TinoPup said, the Philippine Crocodile lives behind the RDC/RH. There's also a Komodo dragon, crocodile monitor, and a pair of Chinese alligators back there. There's also two other enclosures, one holds some turtles, and the other I've only ever seen hold the Chinese alligators in during the warmer months.
 
Andrew_NZP said:
There's also this species, though I don't remember the name.

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As @TinoPup said, the Philippine Crocodile lives behind the RDC/RH. There's also a Komodo dragon, crocodile monitor, and a pair of Chinese alligators back there. There's also two other enclosures, one holds some turtles, and the other I've only ever seen hold the Chinese alligators in during the warmer months.
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Yellow-rumped cacique!
 
I'm in DC for another few days and my hotel is literally a 10 minute walk from the zoo. I might have to make a stop-over early one morning to see the exhibits I missed :)
 
SusScrofa said:
I'm in DC for another few days and my hotel is literally a 10 minute walk from the zoo. I might have to make a stop-over early one morning to see the exhibits I missed :)
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The grounds open at 8am, it's the best time to go to see some of the species out and active!
 
TinoPup said:
The grounds open at 8am, it's the best time to go to see some of the species out and active!
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Just to be sure I don't miss it, is the Philippine croc/komodo enclosures outdoors, or in another building behind the reptile house?
 
Thank you everybody for all the help with finding all the species, just finished my short revisit! Saw the back of the reptile house, and the croc. It was hiding under a log so not a great photo opportunity, but happy I saw it. Also went to Amazonia and saw 4 birds; green aracari, parrot (I think fan-headed parrot?), cacique (not sure species), and roseate spoonbill. Theres also a titi monkey bts that can be viewed from the top floor. Also saw black-tailed prairie dogs which I missed on previous visit, Smithsonians undetailed map and the many circular paths makes it really easy to miss things. Next door, there's also NA Porcupines but the trail was closed off for construction and I couldn't see it out.
 
During my visit today I noticed the zoo removed all signage for the red river hog and the Rüppell's griffon vulture at the Cheetah Conservation Station (except for the entrance sign, which is now extremely outdated). Both were removed from the CCS species list on the website. Obviously this would lead me to believe the zoo no longer has either.

They also added signage for the ostrich in front of the addax exhibit, and vice versa, indicating the zoo either wants to combine their yards and exhibit them together or rotate them.

The black howler monkey had all their signage removed and a "nobody home" sign put in their exhibit, and were removed from the small mammal house species list on the website.

The work being done to the old meerkat exhibit looks finished and the Von der Decken's hornbill was placed back in it.

The zoo no longer has striped skunks it appears and a screaming hairy armadillo was put into their old exhibit.
 
Andrew_NZP said:
During my visit today I noticed the zoo removed all signage for the red river hog and the Rüppell's griffon vulture at the Cheetah Conservation Station (except for the entrance sign, which is now extremely outdated). Both were removed from the CCS species list on the website. Obviously this would lead me to believe the zoo no longer has either.

They also added signage for the ostrich in front of the addax exhibit, and vice versa, indicating the zoo either wants to combine their yards and exhibit them together or rotate them.

The black howler monkey had all their signage removed and a "nobody home" sign put in their exhibit, and were removed from the small mammal house species list on the website.

The work being done to the old meerkat exhibit looks finished and the Von der Decken's hornbill was placed back in it.

The zoo no longer has striped skunks it appears and a screaming hairy armadillo was put into their old exhibit.
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That's a lot of recent changes! Thanks for the updates.
 
NOVAElephantEnthusiast said:
Tragic Loss of Animal Life at Smithsonian’s National Zoo

Tragic news from the zoo, a wild fox killed a good portion of the zoos flamingo flock(25) and a Northern Pintail Duck.
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This is a tragedy indeed. To lose 25 flamingos is insane. Shouldn't the flamingos and pintail have been inside? The bird flu is going around and they could get it from wild birds.

I remember back when I started ZooCrew in 2016 at the Philadelphia Zoo, there was a fox around the zoo and the outdoor bird exhibits were closed.
 
CarLover said:
This is a tragedy indeed. To lose 25 flamingos is insane. Shouldn't the flamingos and pintail have been inside? The bird flu is going around and they could get it from wild birds.

I remember back when I started ZooCrew in 2016 at the Philadelphia Zoo, there was a fox around the zoo and the outdoor bird exhibits were closed.
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Its tragic news. The flamingo have now been moved inside and hopefully the death toll doesn't climb due to shock and injuries (three are being treated).

The flock numbered 74 prior to the attack, so this represents a huge blow to the flock. Hopefully maintaining a flock above 40 means breeding efforts will not be hampered (40+ is optimum for breeding), though this is a small consolation to the staff who will be devastated by this event.

Sometimes despite the best preventative measures, incidents can occur and hopefully social media responses will be largely understanding of this. My thoughts are with the zoo at this time.
 
ThylacineAlive said:
The gazelles are gone, the Sitatunga and hog rotate on-exhibit.

If the ostrich was still outside, it wasn't removed for HPAI. The zoo has very few birds on-exhibit in general atm due to the bird house still being redone. Aside from the ones you mentioned, there were also Green Aracari and Red-Fan Parrots in Amazonia, and a raven along the America trail back in March.

~Thylo
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They have never rotated on exhibit. Even when there were three hogs, there were always two on-exhibit.
 
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