Hornbills,pheasants, Birds of Paradise and those odd looking parrots » Jurong Bird Park

13-06-2007

Yes. I understand. They are kept in a very large space. I doubt that they'd know if a turaco bred in the waterfall aviary!!!

25-06-2007

You would LOVE Jurong Jonathon! The 27 hornbill and toucan aviaries cover 2000 square metres and are something like ten metres high. The lower row can be viewed from two levels. The species list from when I was there in 2004 was as follows (2006 looked much the same but I didn't keep a record):

Southeast Asia

Rhinoceros hornbill Buceros rhinoceros rhinoceros (in two aviaries)
Rhinoceros hornbill Buceros rhinoceros silvestris
Rhinoceros hornbill Buceros rhinoceros borneoensis
Helmeted hornbill Buceros vigil
Great hornbill Buceros bicornis (two aviaries)
Rufous hornbill Buceros hydrocorax
Blyth's hornbill Aceros plicatus (two aviaries) (called "wreathed hornbill" and "Papuan wreathed hornbill" on the signs)
Wreathed hornbill Aceros undulatus (two aviaries) (called "bar-pouched wreathed hornbill" on the signs)
Wrinkled hornbill Aceros corrugatus
White-crowned hornbill Aceros comatus
Indian pied hornbill Anthracoceros malabaricus leucogaster
Oriental pied hornbill Anthracoceros albirostris
Black hornbill Anthracoceros malayanus (world's first captive breeding, 1995)
Bushy-crested hornbill Anorrhinus galeritus

Africa

Silvery-cheeked hornbill Ceratogymna brevis
Von der Decken's hornbill Tockus deckeni
Red-billed hornbill Tockus erythrorhynchus (also in with ground hornbills)
Southern ground hornbill Bucorvus leadbeateri

and then the toucans:

Toco toucan Rhamphastos toco
Red-billed toucan Rhamphastos tucanus cuvieri
Swainson's toucan Rhamphastos swainsonii
Channel-billed toucan Rhamphastos vitellinus
Black-necked aracari Pteroglossus aracari

25-06-2007

Ahhhhhhh paradise. I have to go. Chester only has 5 species. It's one of the bigger brittish collections and Jurong makes it look tiny!!!

26-06-2007

Here is a bit of footage from one of the bird shows at Jurong Bird Park back in July 2000, showing a Swainson's Toucan and a Rhinoceros Hornbill.

I'll go through some more of my footage tomorrow and see if I can find other Hornbills and such.

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26-06-2007

Chilodonias' list is pretty much accurate except for the helmeted hornbills which have been taken off exhibit. I believe one of the toucan species (channel-billed i think) has been taken off display and replaced with Tickell's Brown Hornbill.
Also a couple of the wreathed hornbill duplicate displays have been replaced by Oriental Pied Hornbills as part of a local hornbill conservation project.

26-06-2007

when you do get to Singapore Jonathan, make sure you've got plenty of time!! The first time I went I visited Jurong twice, for six hours each time. The next time I was over there I just went to my favourite bits of the bird park and was still there for five hours!

And then there's the zoo, aquarium, insect park, Raffles' museum...and you wouldn't be able to pass up a trip over to Pulau Ubin off the coast to see some wild Oriental pied hornbills I'm sure.

I love Singapore!

06-07-2007

It sounds wonderful. A place that I could go before University.

22-08-2007

Zooish, do you have any pictures of the tarictic hornbills that used to live at Jurong?

24-08-2007

I'm afraid not. I've never seen them before, not even sure if they were ever on display

01-09-2007

Any new species/births at the birdpark (or the zoo)

01-09-2007

BirdPark saw the hatching of a golden conure and wrinkled hornbill recently.

The zoo had a 2nd generation proboscis monkey born earlier this year. The mother was captive born at the zoo. A purple-faced langur was also born recently.

The zoo acquired 6 white-nosed coatimundis a few months ago, but they're not on display. They will be involved in a new show early next year.

30-09-2007

Where did the zoo get their coatimundis from?

How is the wrinkled hornbill doing, do you have any pictures?

New species/updates?

01-10-2007

I don't know exactly, but I'm guessing they're from some S.American zoo.

Last I heard, the hornbill chick's doing fine. No pics because the birdpark's breeding and research centre is strictly out of bounds. Plus i don't know any of the aviculturists working there.

Night Safari is due to receive 3 giant flying squirrels (petaurista petaurista) from San Diego soon. They're of a different species from the ones currently kept at the park.

15-11-2007

I just found out that the coatimundis came from the Ramat Gan Zoo in Israel.
Along with them came 6 Indian wolves.

In return we sent them a giant anteater.

16-11-2007

Hi Zooish
I get lots of confusing infos about the presence or not of Helmeted hornbills in Jurong Bird Park... What is the truth in that? Are there helmeted hornbills? On display??
I'm a little confused because one friend zookeeper in Koln zoo told me there was no more, not even backstage, and one of walsrode's keeper told me they were on exhibit...
The only helmeted hornbill I saw, so far, was a young male kept in Kuala-Lumpur Birdpark's nursery.
If I recall, amongst the very unusual species I saw in Jurong Bird park (for an european guy like me), there was the Blyth's hawk eagle (Spizaetus alboniger), the Wallace Hawk-eagle (Spizaetus nanus), the Bushy-crested hornbills (Anorrhinus galeritus), the greater racket-tailed drongo (Dicrurus paradiseus), the giant coucal (Centropus sinensis), most birds of paradise species and, a really nice surprise, a wild great-billed heron (Ardea sumatrana) in the milky storks pool!