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