As far as I could see there where no topics yet on vogelpark Ruinen. Has anyone of the dutch zoochatters been there? I have visited the park yesterday, I was rather suprised. I wanted to go there because of the animal list on zootierliste. It has the only (known) captive raquet-tailed roller and some other interesting species that I hadn't seen before!
It is a rather small park, the owner is a bird enthousiast the park is located is his back yard
It has around 30 to 35 exhibits, most containing birds, but a few mammal species present(Black-tailed prairie dog and 2 small squirrel species. I only came for the birds! The park in first place is dedicated to shorebirds(mostly from the Netherlands). There are a few interesting species to see, a few lapwing species including African wattled lapwing, Spur-winged lapwing, Northern lapwing and Chilean lapwing. Also present are black-tailed godwit, common redshank and Eurasian curlew. They have a few parrot species most interesting to me where, meyer's parrot, brown-headed parrot and hahn's macaw. Furthermore they have a good deal of songbirds, a bunch of starling species, some weavers, crows(including green magpie and San Blas jay) and other small species. They have been in the news last year for breeding crested screamers. Of the 6 species of rollers, they have 4. Of which the raquet-tailed roller is the rarest in zoos(as said above) My biggest suprise though was the amount of smaller ground-doves that are seldom seen in zoos, they have blue ground-dove, bare-faced ground-dove, croaking ground dove and the slighty larger emerald-spotted wood-dove.
All in all, a small park with plenty of interesting species! If you are near Ruinen, go take a look!
I will post some phot's when the Ruinen section is added to the gallery.
It is a rather small park, the owner is a bird enthousiast the park is located is his back yard
It has around 30 to 35 exhibits, most containing birds, but a few mammal species present(Black-tailed prairie dog and 2 small squirrel species. I only came for the birds! The park in first place is dedicated to shorebirds(mostly from the Netherlands). There are a few interesting species to see, a few lapwing species including African wattled lapwing, Spur-winged lapwing, Northern lapwing and Chilean lapwing. Also present are black-tailed godwit, common redshank and Eurasian curlew. They have a few parrot species most interesting to me where, meyer's parrot, brown-headed parrot and hahn's macaw. Furthermore they have a good deal of songbirds, a bunch of starling species, some weavers, crows(including green magpie and San Blas jay) and other small species. They have been in the news last year for breeding crested screamers. Of the 6 species of rollers, they have 4. Of which the raquet-tailed roller is the rarest in zoos(as said above) My biggest suprise though was the amount of smaller ground-doves that are seldom seen in zoos, they have blue ground-dove, bare-faced ground-dove, croaking ground dove and the slighty larger emerald-spotted wood-dove. All in all, a small park with plenty of interesting species! If you are near Ruinen, go take a look!
I will post some phot's when the Ruinen section is added to the gallery.
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