Species we have lost over the last quarter of a century

The Picathartes does fall within the remit of this thread - the last individual died in 1995:

 
TeaLovingDave said:
The Picathartes does fall within the remit of this thread - the last individual died in 1995:
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I missed the Picathartes out because there were already several photos in the Gallery ;)

The rest of this batch of scans for this thread are striped squirrel (Regent's Park), Cayenne wood rail (Birdworld) and probably a rusty-margined guan (Bristol) - actually I not certain about the identity of this specimen, so I can't be sure if it falls within the 25 year rule and it is not mentioned on Zootierliste. Comments are welcome.







Alan
 
Your shot is the best one of the species which has been taken by a zoochatter, and isn't a scanned archive shot, however ;)
 
Filled in some gaps with pictures from my trip to Indonesia in July; Javan warty pig, small minivet and pied fantail are now also present in the gallery. :D
Sadly the pictures aren't of great quality.

http://www.zoochat.com/738/javan-warty-pig-gembira-loka-zoo-464234/
http://www.zoochat.com/738/javan-warty-pig-taman-safari-ii-464233/
http://www.zoochat.com/739/pied-fantail-bali-464232/
http://www.zoochat.com/739/small-minivet-female-bali-464231/
http://www.zoochat.com/739/small-minivets-bali-464230/
 
They're not European shots though :p very nice shots, mind you!
 
Resuming my posts of newly scanned images from my collection.

Red-headed laughing thrush at Winged World 1973

Red-headed laughing thrush at Winged World 1973

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Indoor aviary, Winged World, Morecambe, 13th August 1973. Scanned from a Kodachrome slide.

Beautiful sunbird at Winged World 1973

Beautiful sunbird at Winged World 1973

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Jewel Room, Winged World, Morecambe, 13th August 1973. Scanned from a Kodachrome slide.

Four horned antelope 1981

Four horned antelope 1981

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Enclosure in deer park, Howletts, 27th August 1981. Scanned from a Kodachrome slide.

Not forgetting my final post before the site upgrade

Chinese ferret badger 1976

Chinese ferret badger 1976

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Melogale moschata. Clore Pavilion, London ZSL, 10th October 1976. This is a scan of my original...

I still have a few more to come.
 
Testing how the thumbnails look under the new system - the ones posted prior to the site update having been grandfathered in, but with thumbnails of that sort no longer possible:







 
Just uploaded 2 "missing"species in the Netherlands - other Gallery which I was able to photograph today at the show of the Dutch Softbill Society. The birds are in the hands of privat keepers but because there are no photos of them in the Gallery ( at least not from European collections in the case of the Yellow-cheeked tit ) I've uploaded them :
Black-throated Bushtit | ZooChat
Black-throated bushtit

20161029_142336 Yellow--cheeked tit | ZooChat
Yellow-cheeked tit
 
Just uploaded another picture of a "lost"species in the Netherlands - other Gallery. One photo of a captive bird in Japan was already there but now we also have a European picture of it but still not from a public collection : Japanese robin.
Japanese Robin | ZooChat
 
TeaLovingDave said:
Glad it wasn't just me!

Can't complain though; other than the two species mentioned which may have died off and the Greater Bird of Paradise, the only major onshow species I missed at Walsrode was the Guianan Cock of the Rock, a species which is held in a few collections and as such one I could feasibly see in the future.
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A stop-press, with two Bowerbird species we have lost over the course of the last few months:

Fawn-breasted Bowerbird (Chlamydera cerviniventris) - last held in 2016 at Wuppertal. There are many images of this taxon within the Zoochat gallery, including the following photograph:



Black-eared Catbird (Ailuroedus melanotis) - last held in 2016 at Prague. There are no images of this taxon within the Zoochat gallery.
 
A species not mentioned before as being "lost" could be the Blue-billed ( or Gray's ) malimbe ( Malimbicus nitens ). On Zootierliste its mentioned that the species had been not seen and not being signed in 2011 at Zoo Augsburg - Germany - suggesting that it had been so on previous visits ( ? ).
The only other collection having kept the species in Europe was the London Zoo which kept it from 1948 till 1955 at it bred there in 1952 but Zootierliste is not sure if the young was / were raised succesfully ( maybe any ZooChatter with more info ? ).
On the Show of the Dutch Softbill Society I saw this species for sale and was able to take some pictures of it ( see Netherlands - other Gallery https://www.zoochat.com/community/d...ae97351c9d5aedf5105863f678f58d.jpg?1478629175 ). Can't remember having seen this species before so prop. a lifer for me !
 
Cheers :) it is a shame we've lost two Bowerbird species in close succession, but at least the remaining taxon in European collections is present in reasonably good numbers.....
 
TeaLovingDave said:
Cheers :) it is a shame we've lost two Bowerbird species in close succession, but at least the remaining taxon in European collections is present in reasonably good numbers.....
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There are not a lot of white-eared catbirds
in European collections and only Burgers'
breeds them these days. But with the old
mangrove hall (where they bred) gone, this
species has an uncertain future in zoos.
 
The White-eared catbirds are now living in the Bush at Arnhem and I hope they will do it in this much larger enclosure as good ( or even better ) as they did in the old Mangrove-hall !
 
Just posted my last scans for 2016.

Species relevant to this thread include the splendid fairy wren (Regent's Park, 1980)


Jerdon's imperial pigeon (Regent's Park, 1979)


A second image of the Nduk eagle owl (Regent's Park 1974)


Cuis (Regent's Park 1974) - still held at one European zoo according to ZTL


Finally a saddleback tamarin (Jersey 1983). I think it's Saguinus illigeri, but please correct me if that's wrong.


I'm not sure how many more goodies in my slide files next year :)
 
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