On August 2 2014 I paid a visit to Zoo Veldhoven. I had been on this place before but then it was still known as NOP Papegaaien Opvang Veldhoven.
Parts of the zoo had changed, others had remained almost the same. Some very good but also several enclosures which doesn't fit in a modern western zoo !
In this review I only want to deal with the Tropical house with has been named "Bamboe Jungle".
Through a small hall-way you enter the building and then comes onto a terras were you can eat and drink if you want. Here at one of the walls also the first enclosure, a small terrarium with some kind of milksnake. The building has 2 levels and on the bottom-level you walk through a well-planted "jungle" with many free-ranging birds. Larger birds are housed in nylon-netted enclosures across the hall. By a stairway you can also go upstairs and here along 3 sides along the walls a large amount of enclosures are home to birds, mammals and reptiles. You walk along these enclosures on a kind of bridge and if you look at the other sides of the enclosures you look from above into the central part of the "jungle". Some of the enclosures on the first floor are quite Oke but many are to small and to dark for the birds kept in them !
On Zootierliste I checked the list of animals kept and sorted the Jungle animals out and made a list of them. Here I discovered that Zootierliste is not that acurate because a lot of the animals I did see are not mentioned on it but also quite a lot of animals which they mention and from which I would expect they would be kept in the 'jungle" I didn't find !
Here is the list: + means I saw it
? means I didn't see it but would have expected it in the "jungle"'
Painted quail ?
Bali mynah +
Golden tegu +
Central bearded dragon +
Bare-throated fruitcrow +
Cumberland slider ( not sure, saw several sliders )
Superb starling +
Meerkat +
Fire-crowned bishop +
Bare-faced curassow ?
Yellow-bellied slider ( same as for Cumberland slider )
Speckled mousebird ?
Blue-tonqued skink +
Gouldian finch ?
Black and White casqued hornbill +
Green woodhoopoe +
Green iguana +
Speckled pigeon +
Blue-winged kookaburra +
Indian mynah +
Koi carp +
Crowned hornbill +
Leopard gecko ?
Masked lapwing ?
Malagasy ground boa +
Tawny Frogmouth ?
Gray's piping guan ?
Ringed teal +
Rainbow lorikeet +
Java sparrow ?
Toco toucan ?
Corn snake ?
Lesser kestrel +
Northern cardinal ?
Nubian carmine bee-eater +
Wrinkled hornbill ?
Pied avocet ?
Red-legged patridge ?
Silvery-cheeked hornbill +
Sunbittern +
Crested dove +
Dumeril's boa +
Timor zebrafinch ?
Trumpeter hornbill +
Great curassow +
White-cheeked turaco +
Western black-capped lory +
Hermann's tortoise +
Maybe the species with an question-mark are kept at other places in the park but there I didn't see them either but maybe some Zoochatter knows if some of them are still kept at Zoo Veldhoven.
In the 'jungle" I also saw a lot of other species not mentioned on Zootierliste and maybe I even missed some. The ones I saw for sure are :
Victoria crowned pigeon
Babbler species unknown ( will upload some pictures in the Gallery )
Oystercatcher
Giant wood rail
Wonga pigeon
Spurred tortoise
Nicobar pigeon
Harlequin quail
Celestral parrotlet
Dusky lory
Red lory
Emerald dove
Leopard tortoise
Unknown dove species ( will upload some pictures in the Gallery ).
As said, I may have missed some species but I hope other Zoochatters visiting Zoo Veldhoven can update this list !
Parts of the zoo had changed, others had remained almost the same. Some very good but also several enclosures which doesn't fit in a modern western zoo !
In this review I only want to deal with the Tropical house with has been named "Bamboe Jungle".
Through a small hall-way you enter the building and then comes onto a terras were you can eat and drink if you want. Here at one of the walls also the first enclosure, a small terrarium with some kind of milksnake. The building has 2 levels and on the bottom-level you walk through a well-planted "jungle" with many free-ranging birds. Larger birds are housed in nylon-netted enclosures across the hall. By a stairway you can also go upstairs and here along 3 sides along the walls a large amount of enclosures are home to birds, mammals and reptiles. You walk along these enclosures on a kind of bridge and if you look at the other sides of the enclosures you look from above into the central part of the "jungle". Some of the enclosures on the first floor are quite Oke but many are to small and to dark for the birds kept in them !
On Zootierliste I checked the list of animals kept and sorted the Jungle animals out and made a list of them. Here I discovered that Zootierliste is not that acurate because a lot of the animals I did see are not mentioned on it but also quite a lot of animals which they mention and from which I would expect they would be kept in the 'jungle" I didn't find !
Here is the list: + means I saw it
? means I didn't see it but would have expected it in the "jungle"'
Painted quail ?
Bali mynah +
Golden tegu +
Central bearded dragon +
Bare-throated fruitcrow +
Cumberland slider ( not sure, saw several sliders )
Superb starling +
Meerkat +
Fire-crowned bishop +
Bare-faced curassow ?
Yellow-bellied slider ( same as for Cumberland slider )
Speckled mousebird ?
Blue-tonqued skink +
Gouldian finch ?
Black and White casqued hornbill +
Green woodhoopoe +
Green iguana +
Speckled pigeon +
Blue-winged kookaburra +
Indian mynah +
Koi carp +
Crowned hornbill +
Leopard gecko ?
Masked lapwing ?
Malagasy ground boa +
Tawny Frogmouth ?
Gray's piping guan ?
Ringed teal +
Rainbow lorikeet +
Java sparrow ?
Toco toucan ?
Corn snake ?
Lesser kestrel +
Northern cardinal ?
Nubian carmine bee-eater +
Wrinkled hornbill ?
Pied avocet ?
Red-legged patridge ?
Silvery-cheeked hornbill +
Sunbittern +
Crested dove +
Dumeril's boa +
Timor zebrafinch ?
Trumpeter hornbill +
Great curassow +
White-cheeked turaco +
Western black-capped lory +
Hermann's tortoise +
Maybe the species with an question-mark are kept at other places in the park but there I didn't see them either but maybe some Zoochatter knows if some of them are still kept at Zoo Veldhoven.
In the 'jungle" I also saw a lot of other species not mentioned on Zootierliste and maybe I even missed some. The ones I saw for sure are :
Victoria crowned pigeon
Babbler species unknown ( will upload some pictures in the Gallery )
Oystercatcher
Giant wood rail
Wonga pigeon
Spurred tortoise
Nicobar pigeon
Harlequin quail
Celestral parrotlet
Dusky lory
Red lory
Emerald dove
Leopard tortoise
Unknown dove species ( will upload some pictures in the Gallery ).
As said, I may have missed some species but I hope other Zoochatters visiting Zoo Veldhoven can update this list !
