Upland Tropical Rainforest Exhibit

This exhibit of birds, fish, and turtles is located at the top of the Pier 3 Pavilion.

Is this meant to represent a specific geographic area, or just a generic rainforest habitat?

This exhibit is representative of the Amazon Rainforest, specifically Northern Brasil and Southern Venezuela

Are there any mammals in the Rainforest Exhibit ? They have kept sloths in it, but not at the time, I've visited the Aquarium in June 2009.

They may have been off exhibit for meidcal check ups, but we have had sloths since 1981. Three sloths were put on exhibit in 2007 to replace the older female sloth who was their since 1981. One was actually born in 2008.
There are also two golden lion tamarins on exhibit as well.

Do you have a list of species for this exhibit?

Mammals: two toed sloth (4)
golden lion tamarin (2)
Birds: blue crowned motmot
white tailed trogon
scarlet ibis
screaming piha
sunbittern
yellow headed Amazonian parrot
blue gray tanager
paradise tanager
sun conure
Reptiles: tortoise
Amphibians: smoky jungle frog

Their are many other bird species in this exhibit which I can't remember off the top of my head. I'll get the rest for you soon.

Hi,

I used to be an Aviculture Assistant (volunteer) in the Rainforest and still cover occasional shifts when time allows.

The birds in the exhibit are as follows:

Scarlet Ibis
Sunbittern
Sun Conure
Blue-headed Pionus
Yellow-headed Amazon
White-tailed Trogon (NAIB is the most successful breeder of this species and most others in the USA originated from our stock)
Blue-crowned Motmot
Screaming Piha
Brazilian Tanager
Scarlet-rumped Tanager
Blue-gray Tanager
Turquoise Tanager
Green & Gold Tanager (bred at NAIB in recent years)
Paradise Tanager
Bay-headed Tanager
Red-capped Cardinal (bred recently as well)
Yellow Grosbeak

In the past (since 1994), there were also:

Pale-vented Pigeon
Hawk-headed Parrot
Black-spotted Barbet
Green Aracari
Spangled Cotinga
Silver-beaked Tanager
Blue & Yellow Tanager
Burnished-buff Tanager
Green Honeycreeper
Swallow Tanager
Saffron Finch
Troupial
Yellow-hooded Blackbird

On the floor beneath the Rainforest is the Amazon River Forest, a long glass-fronted exhibit where the water comes to about eye level. There used to be birds in there around 2000/2001 but all were removed:

Golden-headed Manakin
Violaceous Euphonia
Paradise Tanager
Opal-rumped Tanager
Black-faced Dacnis
Purple Honeycreeper
Red-legged Honeycreeper

Currently the Aquarium is working on pairing up/re-structuring groups of existing species and may get some new ones in the future. The motmot is my favorite!

avian83, thank you for the complete update!

A motmot has begun to dig tunnels in the ground of the rainforest exhibit. They use these for nesting, but not for sleeping. Motmots are a very unique species to have in captivity.