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TinoPup

TinoPup

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This is what Omaha holds as of 10/21/2018. Named species all have signage. I've also noted unsigned species when I spotted them, mostly birds and I'm not good at guessing those species. This is sorted by exhibit, in order of appearance. I've combined animals in the same exhibit to make this less long. I also have these lists by type if anyone wants that posted.
Not included:
Berniece Grewcock Butterfly and Insect Pavilion - I was tired and I'm not that interested in them. It contains 35-40 species.
Suzanne and Walter Scott Aquarium - I did go through the aquarium and can name quite a few species, particularly the sharks, but it was FILLED with screaming children and was a really unpleasant experience. Much of the species signage is above tanks, as well, on screens that rotate between names, so not easy for my to photograph.

Asian Highlands next segment opens Spring 2019
Red Panda
White-naped Crane
Tufted Deer
Pere David's Deer, Indian One-horned Rhino

African Grasslands
Meerkat, Klipspringer
White-throated Monitor (not on exhibit - weather)
Rock Hyrax
Southern White Rhino
Impala, Giraffe, Ostrich, White Stork
African Elephant, Plains Zebra
African Pygmy Goat
Cheetah
African Lion
Sable Antelope
Bongo, Secretary bird (no signage)
African Spurred Tortoise (not on exhibit - weather)
(Website mentions Kenya Crested Guinea Fowl and Spur-winged Geese, saw no signage for these)

Desert Dome
African Wild Cat (2 females)
Blue Bellied Roller
Cape Thick-Knee
Free flight birds: Cut-throat Finch, Gambel's Quail, Hooded Oriole, Lilac-breasted Roller, Orange-bishop Weaver, Red-bishop Weaver, Scott's Oriole, Speckled Mousebird, White-winged Dove, Yellow-crowned Bishop
Blacksmith Plover, Chesnut Weaver, Golden-breasted Starling
Klipspringer, Meerkat
Helmeted Marsh Terrapin, Nile Soft-shell Turtle, unnamed blue fish with black stripes (also in front of mongoose)
Bat-eared Fox
Dwarf Mongoose
Hottentot Teal
Puff Adder
Cape Cobra
Cape Coral Cobra
Angolan Python
Red-billed Hornbill
Black Mamba, 2 exhibits next to each other
Brown Tree Snake, Common Death Adder
Giant Plated Lizard
Frilled Dragon, Northern Blue-tongued Skink
Centralian Python
Rough-scaled Death Adder
King Brown
Collett's Snake
Woma Python
Taipan (Inland)
Spiny-tailed Monitor
Perentie
Kookaburra, Masked Lapwing, Tawny Frogmouth
Yellow-footed Rock Wallaby
Cunningham's Skink
Bearded Dragon
Collared Peccary
Ocelot
Burrowing Owl
Bobcat
Benson's Quail, Burrowing Owl, Roadrunner
Baja Blue Rock Lizard, Mexican Spiny-tailed Iguana
Baja Blue Rock Lizard, Common Chuckwalla, Common Collared Lizard, Giant Mexican Horned Lizard
Western Diamond-backed Rattlesnake (I counted 16 of them)
Mountain Quail
Sonoran Box Turtle, Spiny-tailed Iguana
Turkey Vulture
Swift Fox
Arizona Black Rattlesnake
Mojave Rattlesnake
Cantil Viper
Beaded Lizard
Santa Catalina Island Rattlesnake
Mottled Rock Rattlesnake
Great Basin Rattlesnake
Sidewinder
Redtail Splitfin
Coati

Expedition Madagascar
Black Lemur, Madagascar Big Headed Turtle
Strawcolored Fruit Bat
Mongoose Lemur
Aye-Aye
Giant Jumping Rat, Grey Mouse Lemur
Lesser Vasa Parrot
Radiated Tortoise, Ring-tailed Lemur (on sign but not present: Common Brown Lemur, Mongoose Lemur, Red-collared Brown Lemur)
Flat-tailed Tortoise, Giant Day Gecko, Oustalet's Chameleon, Plated Lizard, Spiny-tailed Iguana
Baron's Mantella, Beautiful Mantella, Blue-legged Mantella, Climbing Mantella
Madagascar Ground Boa, Malagasy Hognose Snake
Red Ruffed Lemur
Cheke's Day Gecko, Madagascar Button Quail, Panther Chameleon, Tomato Frog
Fossa (outside)

Gorilla Valley
Salvadori's Weaver
Northern Tree Shrew
Colobus Monkey
Sulawesi Crested Black Macaque
Western Lowland Gorilla, Colobus Monkey (indoors)
Western Lowland Gorilla, several outdoor exhibits, viewed from indoors
Angolan Colobus, Blue Monkey, Bush Hyrax, Rock Hyrax
Abyssinian Ground Hornbill, West African Crowned Crane, Yellow-backed Duiker, Unnamed brown goose species

Kingdoms of the Night
Naked Mole Rat
Fossa
Greater Bushbaby, Springhaas
Amazon Milky Tree Frog, Emerald Tree Boa, Green Tree Python, Magnificent Tree Frog
Bushy-tailed Jird
Amazon Tree Boa, Jamaican Boa
Mexican Leaf Frog
Schneider's Dwarf Caiman
Haitian Boa
Aardvark, Brushtail Porcupine, Greater Bushbaby, Hoffman's Two-toed Sloth, Potto, Springhaas
Short-tailed Fruit Bat
Mexican Blind Cavefish
Amethystine Python
Banded Knob-tailed Gecko
Douroucouli, Hoffman's Two-toed Sloth, Nine-banded Armadillo, Prehensile-tailed Porcupine, Screaming Hairy Armadillo, St. Vincent Agouti, Three-banded Armadillo
Short-beaked Echidna, Tamar Wallaby
Fly River Turtle, Krefft's River Turtle, Northern Australian Snake-necked Turtle, Pink-bellied Side-necked Turtle
Johnson's Crocodile
Vampire Bat
Ruwenzori Long-haired Fruit Bat
Spear-nosed Bat
Greater Bulldog Bat
Egyptian Fruit Bat
Little Golden-mantled Fruit Bat
Giant Indian Fruit Bat
Cope's Grey Tree Frog, Green Tree Frog
Black Pine Snake
Corn Snake
American Toad
American Alligator
Alligator Snapping Turtle, American Beaver
Nutria
Spectacled Caiman
American Bullfrog, Western Painted Turtle, Yellow-blotched Map Turtle
Eastern Indigo Snake
Alligator Snapping Turtle, American Crocodile, Common Snapping Turtle

Lied Jungle (not separated by exhibit, since many of these can move between areas)
Luzon Bleeding-Heart Dove
White-crested Laughing Thrush
Asian Small-clawed Otter
White-handed Gibbon
Grey Gibbon
Indian Crested Porcupine
Splendid Tree Frog
Blood Python
Quince Monitor
Egyptian Fruit Bat (free flight)
Francois' Langur
Malayan Tapir
Giant Indian Fruit Bat? (free flight)
Imperial Pigeon (free flight)
Common Crowned Pigeon (free flight)
Nicobar Pigeon (free flight)
Diana Monkey
Nile Softshelled Turtle
Black Crake
Hamerkop
Hadada Ibis
Wolf's Guenon
African Pygmy Goose
Hadada Ibis
White-faced Whistling Duck
Violaceous Turaco
Giant Elephant Shrew
De Brazza's Monkey
Pygmy Hippo
Home's Hinge-backed Tortoise
Giant African Bullfrog
Brown duck with black/white head
Black goose with white head
Spotted-necked Otter
Black-headed Spider Monkey
Baird's Tapir
Pallas' Long-tongued Bat
Green Crested Basilisk
Collared Tree Lizard
Smooth-sided Toad
Yellow Backed Dart Frog
Panamanian Golden Frog
Yellow Anaconda
Green & Black Dart Frog
Hourglass Frog
Plumed Basilisk
Smokey Jungle Frog
Scarlet Macaw
Blue-and-Yellow Macaw
Arapaima
Redtail Catfish
Pacu
Black Howler Monkey
Red-backed Bearded Saki
Squirrel Monkey
Lowland Paca
Iguana species, no signage
Blue-grey Tanager (free flight)
Black Howler Monkey
Central American Tiger Rat Snake
Ocellate River Stingray
Mata Mata
Green Severum
Plecostomus
Philippine Crocodile
Asian Black-spine Toad
Bornean Eared Frog
Solomon Island Eyelash Frog

Orangutan Forest
Agile Gibbon, Bornean Orangutan
Gray's Monitor
Siamang
Melodius Laughing Thrush
Bornean Orangutan, outside

Simmons Aviary
American Flamingo
Roseate Spoonbill
Scarlet Ibis
Baikal Teal
Chiloe Wigeon
North American Wood Duck
Bar-headed Goose
Cattle Egret
Inca Tern
White Stork
West African Crowned Crane
Ibises
Swans
Ducks, Teals, and Pintails

Others
California Sea Lion (Sea Lion Pavilion)
African Pink-backed Pelican, Koi, White-faced Whistling Duck, several monkey species (Lagoon Island)
Abyssinian Ground Hornbill, Okapi, Yellow-backed Duiker (near birthday area, across from aquarium)
Goats (Children's Adventure Trails)
Atlantic Stingray, Cownose Ray (Stingray Beach)
Amur Tiger x3 (old big cats building)
Cougar (old big cats building)
Komodo Dragon (old big cats building)
Snow Leopard x2 (old big cats building)
 
Hi! I actually work there, so hopefully like I can give some more insight.

African Grasslands:
The kenyan crested guineafowl share an exhibit with the rock hyraxes during the summer while the spurwing goose is in the pond with the pelicans and whistling ducks.
I'm pretty sure the secretary birds with the bongos are stanley blue cranes. Who knows though, it's been a while since I've been over there so they may just be new.

Desert Dome:
Star finch, long-tail finch, double-barred finch, cinnamon teal, chestnut teal, australian wood ducks, cape teal, and magpie shrike are also free-flight but not signed

Expedition Madagascar:
I'm pretty sure there are also powder blue reed frog in the mantella exhibit

Gorilla Valley:
The unnamed geese are Egyptian geese

Kingdoms of the Night:
The emerald tree boas and amazon milk frogs are separated from the magnificent tree frogs and green tree pythons by a pane of glass, so they're technically different exhibits.

Jungle:
There flying foxes are giant indian flying foxes.
I think the "Brown goose with black and white head" is the white-winged duck
The iguana is a green iguana. An Argentine black-and-white tegu also lives on that island
Some other free-flight species I've seen are white-cheeked turacos, javan pond herons, radjah shelducks, wandering shelducks, silver-beak tanagers, great argus pheasants, grey-neck wood rail, nicobar pigeons, Hartlaub's duck, crested screamer, white-faced whistling duck, and more.

Aviary:
Oh many there are SO many species, especially during the summer. Some others I've spotted include sacred ibis, waldrapp ibis, black-neck swan, golden pheasant, hamerkop, bahama pintail, mandarin duck, red-crested pochard, northern pintail, redhead duck, Barrow's goldeneye, blue-winged teal, cinnamon teal, hooded merganser, marbled teal, northern shoveler, ring-neck duck, and ruddy shelduck.

Please let me know if you have any questions or anything, I love talking about it :)
 
bugboiben said:
Hi! I actually work there, so hopefully like I can give some more insight.

African Grasslands:
The kenyan crested guineafowl share an exhibit with the rock hyraxes during the summer while the spurwing goose is in the pond with the pelicans and whistling ducks.
I'm pretty sure the secretary birds with the bongos are stanley blue cranes. Who knows though, it's been a while since I've been over there so they may just be new.

Desert Dome:
Star finch, long-tail finch, double-barred finch, cinnamon teal, chestnut teal, australian wood ducks, cape teal, and magpie shrike are also free-flight but not signed

Expedition Madagascar:
I'm pretty sure there are also powder blue reed frog in the mantella exhibit

Gorilla Valley:
The unnamed geese are Egyptian geese

Kingdoms of the Night:
The emerald tree boas and amazon milk frogs are separated from the magnificent tree frogs and green tree pythons by a pane of glass, so they're technically different exhibits.

Jungle:
There flying foxes are giant indian flying foxes.
I think the "Brown goose with black and white head" is the white-winged duck
The iguana is a green iguana. An Argentine black-and-white tegu also lives on that island
Some other free-flight species I've seen are white-cheeked turacos, javan pond herons, radjah shelducks, wandering shelducks, silver-beak tanagers, great argus pheasants, grey-neck wood rail, nicobar pigeons, Hartlaub's duck, crested screamer, white-faced whistling duck, and more.

Aviary:
Oh many there are SO many species, especially during the summer. Some others I've spotted include sacred ibis, waldrapp ibis, black-neck swan, golden pheasant, hamerkop, bahama pintail, mandarin duck, red-crested pochard, northern pintail, redhead duck, Barrow's goldeneye, blue-winged teal, cinnamon teal, hooded merganser, marbled teal, northern shoveler, ring-neck duck, and ruddy shelduck.

Please let me know if you have any questions or anything, I love talking about it :)
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Thank you SO much, you are awesome! I wasn't expecting to ever have the answer to some of those, you've made my night :) I'm getting better at birds and did at least notice the Nicobars, I found a nest (a bit above eye level at a corner, between the two pygmy hippo areas) but thought they must be something else that looked really similar because they weren't signed. I enjoyed watching them for a bit, the male was flying off and bringing back twigs. It's silly but it was such a sweet, hidden moment, just outside of the regular view of such a busy area.
Thanks especially for the aviary, too. I was there just after that first big snow melted (or so I heard), so the aviary was a brown, gross mess with very few birds out, plus the walkway being closed. I was surprised at the lack of signage in there.
Regarding the birds in with the bongo, I remember thinking they didn't quite look exactly like secretary birds, but I've gotten pretty good with the long-legged species (there's a lot of them in Dallas and Fort Worth, lol) and couldn't think of what else they could be. I don't remember them quite being blue, but I know I got at least one film photo of them and I should finally be getting my developed rolls of film back by this weekend so I'll be able to provide a photo then :)
Thank you again! I went to Omaha for a weekend just to go to the zoo and the conservation center (amazing behind the scenes experience there), and the zoo blew me away. It was better than I ever could have imagined.

Oh! Aquarium species! I have absolutely nothing from there. I'd particularly like to know at least the penguin/bird and shark species.
 
TinoPup said:
Thank you SO much, you are awesome! I wasn't expecting to ever have the answer to some of those, you've made my night :) I'm getting better at birds and did at least notice the Nicobars, I found a nest (a bit above eye level at a corner, between the two pygmy hippo areas) but thought they must be something else that looked really similar because they weren't signed. I enjoyed watching them for a bit, the male was flying off and bringing back twigs. It's silly but it was such a sweet, hidden moment, just outside of the regular view of such a busy area.
Thanks especially for the aviary, too. I was there just after that first big snow melted (or so I heard), so the aviary was a brown, gross mess with very few birds out, plus the walkway being closed. I was surprised at the lack of signage in there.
Regarding the birds in with the bongo, I remember thinking they didn't quite look exactly like secretary birds, but I've gotten pretty good with the long-legged species (there's a lot of them in Dallas and Fort Worth, lol) and couldn't think of what else they could be. I don't remember them quite being blue, but I know I got at least one film photo of them and I should finally be getting my developed rolls of film back by this weekend so I'll be able to provide a photo then :)
Thank you again! I went to Omaha for a weekend just to go to the zoo and the conservation center (amazing behind the scenes experience there), and the zoo blew me away. It was better than I ever could have imagined.

Oh! Aquarium species! I have absolutely nothing from there. I'd particularly like to know at least the penguin/bird and shark species.
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The aquarium is a hard one for me too, even my list isn't updated.

The first bird exhibit has common murres, tufted puffins, and atlantic puffins

For penguins, we have gentoos, southern rockhoppers, and kings. We have african penguins as well but I don't know if/where they're on exhibit at the moment.

The big shark tunnel has zebra sharks, sandbar sharks, nurse sharks, an a couple wobbegong species. One of the later exhibits has bonnethead sharks, epaulette sharks, and whitespotted bamboo sharks

Some other notable species in there are the japanese spider crabs, loggerhead sea turtle, green sea turtles, several jellyfish species, moray eels, pot-bellied seahorses, giant pacific octopus, toco toucans, and some amazonian species.
 
Thank you again!! I didn't even see the sea turtles :( The octopus was out and playing with the pumpkin decoration he had though, which was awesome to see for a minute (until everyone else noticed and crowded, of course). It's a really nice aquarium.
 
I remember someone telling me once that the Salvadori's Weavers aren't actually pure. I forget what they were hybridized with but unfortunately it doesn't seem like they're actually present at the zoo.

~Thylo
 
ThylacineAlive said:
I remember someone telling me once that the Salvadori's Weavers aren't actually pure. I forget what they were hybridized with but unfortunately it doesn't seem like they're actually present at the zoo.

~Thylo
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Do you mean the Salvadori's or what they were hybridized with? Last time I was there they were still down by gorillas. I believe I've spotted some in the dome too, but it may have been a similar species.
 
bugboiben said:
Do you mean the Salvadori's or what they were hybridized with? Last time I was there they were still down by gorillas. I believe I've spotted some in the dome too, but it may have been a similar species.
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I meant there aren't any pure Salvadori's at the zoo, all of them are hybrids.

~Thylo
 
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