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Jungle Man said:
A little misidentification, the birds weren't rock ibises they were Northern Bald Ibises.
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That time, I understood what you meant :) although it helped that I am familiar with the Waldrapp reintroduction programme!

Maybe you should consider posting the scientific name for species if you are uncertain of the English translation for their name?
 
TeaLovingDave said:
That time, I understood what you meant :) although it helped that I am familiar with the Waldrapp reintroduction programme!

Maybe you should consider posting the scientific name for species if you are uncertain of the English translation for their name?
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Thanks for the advice, TLD. I used the scientific names a lot because they are the same in every language but, in some posts they just don't put scientific names.
 
4 owl chicks have been sent to Austria for a reintroduction program. The chicks were born at the zoo but I don't know of which species they are. If somebody can enter using the link and tell me, thank you.

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The first American (Cuban) flamingo chick hatched on June 14th. There are still 7 pairs waiting their eggs to hatch and in the colony, there are 54 individuals.

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In the African-Asian section of the zoo we can find the following babies:

1.2 Bactrian Camel
2.4 Nile Lechwe
1.4 Common Eland
1.3 Indian Axis
Also, they are waiting babies from the Barasingha and Nilgai.

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Their male Asiatic Lion was euthanized at the end of May due to deteriorating health. He was from Paignton Zoo and arrived in 2006. His breeding mate was from Eskilstuna Parken Zoo and was already at the zoo.

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3 African Spurred Tortoises hatched in May. The first breeding took place in 2017 and they have raised in all their breeding 9 tortoise hatchlings. Currently, 2.2 adult tortoises are on show.

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Other births include 1 Pere David's Deer and 1.1 Vietnamese Sika Deer.

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Jungle Man said:
4 owl chicks have been sent to Austria for a reintroduction program. The chicks were born at the zoo but I don't know of which species they are. If somebody can enter using the link and tell me, thank you.

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They are Ural owls, Central European subspecies. They are headed to forest near Vienna.

Some countries (Austria, Germany, Czech rep.) are reintroducing this species at seveal different locations. In future, they should inhabit again an area where they have been extirpated - old forests and woods between nothern slopes of Alpes in Germany, through Bavaria, whole Austria, south Czechia and create one unterrupted population all the way to western Ukraine.

Thankfully, intensified protective measures impelemented in late 20th century in areas where the species survived naturally like south Poland and mountains of Slovakia, has started a slow natural bounce back, independent of artificial introductions. Ural owls, on their own, managed to spread to most of Slovakia, are underway in east Czechia (first breeding announced in Jeseníky mountains last year) and spread to some new lowland forests in south Poland.
 
Jana said:
They are Ural owls, Central European subspecies. They are headed to forest near Vienna.

Some countries (Austria, Germany, Czech rep.) are reintroducing this species at seveal different locations. In future, they should inhabit again an area where they have been extirpated - old forests and woods between nothern slopes of Alpes in Germany, through Bavaria, whole Austria, south Czechia and create one unterrupted population all the way to western Ukraine.

Thankfully, intensified protective measures impelemented in late 20th century in areas where the species survived naturally like south Poland and mountains of Slovakia, has started a slow natural bounce back, independent of artificial introductions. Ural owls, on their own, managed to spread to most of Slovakia, are underway in east Czechia (first breeding announced in Jeseníky mountains last year) and spread to some new lowland forests in south Poland.
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Thanks @Jana !
 
Ural Owls are common in the mountains of SE Poland. If any place to the West wants to reintroduce them, it should be easy to catch and translocate a number of wild birds. No breeding, no problems with learning survival in the wild etc.
 
Jurek7 said:
Ural Owls are common in the mountains of SE Poland. If any place to the West wants to reintroduce them, it should be easy to catch and translocate a number of wild birds. No breeding, no problems with learning survival in the wild etc.
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I guess reintrodution programs go the way of least resistnce. Sourcing owls from zoos is probably much easier than trying to catch wild birds in foreign country and deal with pre-transport quarantine, export-import documents etc. Zoos are used to transport their offspring, they have vet on site so all papers are just a breeze.

Czech zoos and breeding stations have a solid base of pure macroura pairs, originating from resqued Slovak/Czech birds and their offspring. The whole population in Šumava national park and its foothills goes back to released zoo birds and today it´s prospering, that is a positive precedent.

I´m personaly most interested about outcome of the reintroduction in Steinwald park in Bavaria. They started in 2017, but release only handful of birds each year. They come from German zoos mostly. It´s just few dozen km away from Czech border. Our ornitologists hung 10 breeding boxes along the border, in case some of their birds would try to settle here.
 
Ostrava is keeping Hippos since 1967 and from then on 33 young have been born - 18 of which were raised.
Last year a new breeding-pair was formed with a female which was born 2013 and came from Whipsnade in 2016 and a male which came from Antwerp ( born 2012 ) in the autumn of 2019.
That the 2 got along quite well was proven last week because their first calf was born :).
 
The zoo director Čolas has died. I don´t know cause, this is fresh news. Utterly tragic. He was one of those zoo-crazy people, a workaholic with deep knowledge. Went by old fashioned route of zoo keeper - curator - zoo director, spent over 30 years working in his zoo. Did real wonders for Ostrava zoo.
 
Jana said:
The zoo director Čolas has died. I don´t know cause, this is fresh news. Utterly tragic. He was one of those zoo-crazy people, a workaholic with deep knowledge. Went by old fashioned route of zoo keeper - curator - zoo director, spent over 30 years working in his zoo. Did real wonders for Ostrava zoo.
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I am absolutely agree!:(:(:(
 
Until the end of October, the entrance to the zoo and some other attractions in the Ostrava-region is free of charge.
 
The zoo expects arrival of a new breeding onager stallion from Sigean park in France. They lost their previous one last year. Ostrava now keeps a herd of 9 onager mares and 2 foals (born 2020) in one of their safari exhibits. They are mixed with a bachelor herd of Persian gazelles and a bachelor herd of Persian fallow deer.
 
The breeding Rotschilds giraffe male KABU has died. He was born in 1999 at Olomouc zoo and arrived 2003 to Ostrava where he sired 7 calves. His parents were Herbie (from Cologne) and Veronika (born at Olomouc). He had a twin named Kabuki (a female) who never left Olomouc. Twin birth was difficult, calves had problems with legs and needed a lot of keeper and vet intervention to survive but both managed it.

Now the zoo is left with just 0,2 giraffes. I hope they obtain a new male soon.
 
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