New Zealand animals in overseas zoos

New Zealand animals in overseas zoos
21-08-2007

I thought this might be interesting, especially to us kiwis on here. I'll make a list of NZ species that I know are in overseas collections and keep it updated as all you foreign lot provide the info. If you know of species I haven't listed let me know; if you know what zoos have them let me know. This is really just for specifically NZ species or subspecies, not ones also found in Australia or elsewhere.

BIRDS:

North Island brown kiwi (Apteryx mantelli):Frankfurt, Antwerp, Walsrode (apparently they now have them?), Berlin, Rotterdam, San Diego, Washington, Los Angeles, Chicago, Osaka
Fiordland crested penguin (Eudyptes pachyrhynchus):Taronga (Sydney)
Paradise shelduck (Tadorna variegata):
Blue duck (Hymenolaimus malacorhynchus):
NZ shoveller (Anas rhynchotis variegata):
Brown teal (Anas chlorotis):
NZ scaup (Aythya novaeseelandiae):
Weka (Gallirallus australis):
Kea (Nestor notabilis):
North Island kaka (Nestor meridionalis septentrionalis): Stuttgart
Red-crowned kakariki (Cyanoramphus novaezelandiae):
Yellow-crowned kakariki (Cyanoramphus auriceps):
[I'll note here that the "red-crowneds" and "yellow-crowneds" in UK and Europe and probably everywhere else outside NZ are not pure birds because of constant hybridisation by breeders; you just have hybrid birds that look more like one or the other]

REPTILES:

Common tuatara (Sphenodon punctatus): Taronga (Sydney), Chester, Berlin, Dallas, Toledo, Saint Louis
Brothers Islands tuatara (Sphenodon guntheri): San Diego
North Island green tree gecko (Naultinus elegans):
and any others...
[sadly there are also lots of smuggled NZ reptiles held illegally outside of the country]

ANYTHING ELSE?:

Giant weta (Deinacrida heteracantha?):

21-08-2007

I was in Antwerp lately but couldn't find the kiwi.
Are you sure Rotterdam has them too?

21-08-2007

Rotterdam does not hold kiwi's 100% sure.

Apparantly Antwerp received two male kiwi's again from Frankfurt. They are kept in an outside aviary so they are never seen.

21-08-2007

Thanks Jwer, do you know when we can see them in the zoo?

22-08-2007

the kiwi info was from the Kiwi Recovery website. I know it doesn't get updated because it says Jurong has them, and they haven't for a long time. So definitely none at Rotterdam?

Keas
23-08-2007

I believe that Bristol Zoo has/had keas
I am sure that other UK zoos ( possibly Chester ) may also have them ?

23-08-2007

Yeah. Definitely Bristol had Keas last time I was there- a big group too so I'd guess they're still there.
I couldn't be certain but I think they've left Chester's collection.

23-08-2007

As far as i know only 1 of the very regular Antwerp Zoo visitors has ever once seen them so they are hardly ever visable during opening hours (not very surprisingly).

Definate NO for Rotterdam though... i could ask when they were there last.

23-08-2007

Chester's keas left the collection in 2005 I think. One died, and the other went to pair up.

Were Jurong's kiwis housed in the nocturnal bird house?

24-08-2007

yes, the Jurong kiwi were in the nocturnal house, in a rather small enclosure (all the enclosures in Jurong's nocturnal house are too small). Last time I was there (last year) the sign at the front of the house showing what was in all the sections still showed kiwi but they haven't been there for years.

24-08-2007

um...how do I edit the original post?

24-12-2007

There are quite a few Paradise Shelducks in European collections like Berlin, Walsrode, Augsburg. Liberec Zoo etc. as well as in private collections. The very same is true about the New Zealand Red-crowned Parakeet that are also kept as pets. A small German zoo now even has a walk-through aviary with them and Keas.

Keas have become quite a "standard species" in many European zoos; even some private owners now have them, price up to € 5.000+ per specimen.
Little Blue Penguins are kept in some American (e.g. Omaha) and European (Cologne) zoos.

24-12-2007

There some Kiwi at Columbus Zoo and Aquarium, not sure how many or what sub-species though...

25-12-2007

the responses to this thread weren't exactly overwhelming, so I decided to just leave it as a list of NZ species overseas rather than numbers and zoos etc