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the worlds first!!!
21-07-2008
YES! It's a fact!
the worlds first ever shoebill born in captivity! at Parc Paradisio in Belgium!!! I reported earlier that the eggs were infertile. this was told to me by the staff. literature states that incubation lasts for 30 days. after this period the eggs were candled (also before) but no proof of viability. staff kept them in the incubator and the day before yesterday the first egg showed cracks. yesterday I got the news the chick had hatched and emerged fully from the egg. |
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#2
21-07-2008
This is brilliant news!
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#3
21-07-2008
This really was the holy grail of captive bird breeding, i wonder what was the spur to get the birds mating successfully, are they free flying or pinioned?
What is their enclosure like? Or could it be as simple as 2 birds that simply "liked" each other? There will be a lot of envious zoo people around the world looking on, all we can hope for now is the successful rearing of the chick. |
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#4
21-07-2008
the zoo originally imported 4 animals: 1 pair and 2 younger birds that turned out to be males.
the initial mate of the female died shortly after arriving. I'm not sure how exactly they did it, but I believe she had the possibility to choose her new mate herself. they have a rather big aviary with lots of plants and water. the inside enclosure can be divided into 2. this is believed to have triggered this set of matings. last year they were together all year round and started mating in the fall. no eggs were produced. I looked it up: we have no overview of the aviary online, but you can look here for some pics of the animals. including matings, flight and the nest. Schoenbekooievaar - ZooWiki scroll down to see the thumbnails if I do find an aviary overview, I'll post it, but that means going through several hundred paradisio pictures 
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#5
21-07-2008
Really good news
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#6
21-07-2008
Is their aviary netted?
From one of the pictures on that link you posted, the bird was flying. They are so amazing! |
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#7
21-07-2008
the aviary is completely netted. so they really can fly.
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#8
21-07-2008
WOW!
I coming over to Parc paradisio again! |
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#9
22-07-2008
A reason to go again! It's already a long time ago! Wonderful news!
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#10
24-07-2008
the little one has been called "Abu"
here are a few official pictures 
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#11
24-07-2008
Great photos, the chick looks really well and heres hoping "Abu" grows into a strong healthy bird, well done to all at Parc Paradisio.
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#12
24-07-2008
This is great news, almost as good as if someone announced they'd bred a baby Dinosaur...
The photos show the pair are obviously living in pretty natural conditions- I'm sure been full-winged has something to do with it too. Hopefully they'll go on to breed again and maybe rear their own young in time. |
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#13
24-07-2008
Just of interest: which zoos keep full-winged shoebills and which pinioned ones?
I written already, that long-legged birds have great problems mating when one wing is clipped, and this may be the reason why shoebills never bred before. |
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#14
25-07-2008
GReat News, but I'm surprised, the are don't feed the chick with a handpuppet, as they do it in california with the calfifornian condors, to avoid that the chicks feels like a human, you know what I mean, i don't know the english word. Thats the main problem with all of the shoebills in zoos, they came as very young birds into the zoos and don't breed, because they try to mate with humans...So the same will happen with this bird.
Nevertheless, its a wonderful success, and I hope, they will have a parents rearing as soon as possible. Thanks for the phantastic pictures, forumbully ! |
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#15
25-07-2008
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I think the staff at Parc Paradisio have been taken by surprise here, they probably didn't think the egg would hatch |
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