UsZoo's Trip Report Thread

[uszoo]

- So I visit a lot of zoo's each year in the northeast. So far I have visited the Bronx Zoo, Central Park Zoo, Prospect Park Zoo, Rosamond Gifford Zoo and the Mystic Aquarium. I will be posting species list's from my visits here as well as reviews. I am going to start off with the Central Park Zoo which I visited last week. If you have any questions about how many of each species I saw just comment or pm me. Right now I am posting a species list and the review will come later.

Central Park Zoo: (April 18th 2014)

Mammal's:
1. California Sea Lion 4
2. Japanese Macaque
3. Snow Leopard
4. Red Panda
5. Rodrigues Fruit Bat
6. Bolivian Titi Monkey
7. Banded Mongoose
8. Black and White Ruffed Lemur
9. Patagonian Cavy
10. Alpaca
11. Cotton Top Tamarin
12. Northern Luzon Giant Cloud Rat
13. Seba's Short Tailed Bat
14. White Nosed Coati

Bird's:
1. King Penguin
2. Gentoo Penguin
3. Chinstrap Penguin
4. Rockhopper Penguin
5. Great Black backed Gull
6. Eurasian Oystercatcher
7. Atlantic Puffin
8. Tufted Puffin
9. Bufflehead
10. Eurasian Eagle Owl
11. Red Breasted Merganser
12. Long Tailed Duck
13. Pacific Eider
14. Himalayan Monal
15. Scaly Sided Merganser
16. White Naped Crane
17. Blue and Gold Macaw
18. Red and Green Macaw
19. Scarlet Ibis
20. Bali Mynah
21. Red Bird of Paradise
22. Troupial
23. Taveta Golden Weaver
24. Nicabar Pigeon
25. Victoria Crowned Pigeon
26. Green Peafowl
27. Superb Starling
28. Mandarin Duck
29. Masked Lapwing
30. Baer's Pochard
31. Radjah Shelduck
32. Black Stork
33. Brown Eared Pheasent
34. Swan Goose
35. Harlequin Duck
36. White Headed Duck
37. Emporer Goose
38. Plumed Whistling Ducks
39. Lilac-Crowned Amazon
40. Pink-Eared Duck
41. Tundra Swan

Reptile's:
1. Brazilian Rainbow Boa
2. Amazon Tree Boa
3. Texas Tortoise
4. Gila Monster
5. Rhinoceros Snake
6. Green tree boa or Emerald Tree Boa
7. Tentacled Snake
8. Orient Knight Anole
9. California King Snake
10. Angolan Python
11. Solomon Island Prehensile-Tailed Skink
12. Dumeril's Ground Boa
13. Pig-Nosed Turtle
14. Dwarf Caiman
15. Red-Footed Tortoise
16. Red Eared Slider

Amphibian's:
1. Puerto Rican Crested Toad
2. Giant Waxy Monkey Frog
3. Blue Poison Dart Frog
4. Green and Black Poison Dart Frog

Fish:
1. Red Bellied Pirana
2. Red Rainbow-Fish

Other:
1. Madagascar Hissing Cockroach

Total: 78 species seen

- I saw all of these species on my visit. The past two months I have working on a database of all species I have ever photographed. I am up to about 480 right now. It is hard to identify from older pictures and certain animal groups such as fish are hard to list out. I should have it done by mid-may and then I will post a link. I have a page for each species that lists where I have seen it and the amount of individuals of that species I observed. A review should be up shortly.

 

[ThylacineAlive]

Wow, seeing that list there really makes you realize how small Central Park really is!

I'd just like to correct on the fact that the zoo has Ring-Tailed Coati and not White-Nosed.

Additionally for reptiles, the zoo also has Solomon Islands Ground Skink (Eugongylus albofasciolatus).

~Thylo

 

[uszoo]

The list is just of the species I saw, not what they have. I am pretty sure there are plenty of species that I failed to see. but yes the zoo is small only 6.5 acres. It still is a nice list of species that will grow when a new species is added to the polar bear exhibit.