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#31
17-11-2007
I saw that great-billed heron too when I was there last year!
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#32
17-11-2007
Maybe it's not wild, maybe it's.....TAMED!!!!
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#33
17-11-2007
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The Wallace Hawk-eagle is no longer around, but the rest of the species were still there when I visited earlier this year. I'm not sure if the great-billed heron belongs to the park, but its almost always there! This species is native, but very very rare. |
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#34
17-11-2007
does anyone have a photo of a great billed heron, sounds a fantastic bird a new one to me.
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#35
20-11-2007
Here's one of the pics I took in August 2006.
I noticed he has a ring on one leg which would mean that he probably belongs to the park... 
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#36
20-11-2007
cheers pedro that is a formidable beak going on there!
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#37
26-11-2007
Jurong BirdPark has begun construction for a new exhibit to be called "Dinosaur Descendants" which should be ready by June or September 2008. Don't have much details about this project yet but it will house the park's ratites and demonstrate the evoluntionary link between birds and dinos.
The only other zoo exhibit i know of which explicitly features the link between dinos and birds is the Wings of Asia aviary at Miami Zoo. While most scientists have come to except this evolutionary relationship, a few vocal others are still trying to disprove it. |
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#38
27-11-2007
I was wondering something...
Storm's storks, greater adjudant, white-shouldered ibisses are amongst asia's most threatened waterbirds. Why don't Jurong Birdpark start some breeding plan concerning these birds?? Instead of keeping ostreiches, nandus and emus.... For white-shouldered ibis, it will probably be very difficult, almost impossible, but I'm sure something could be done with the storm's storks, like it's being done in US zoos. |
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#39
27-11-2007
good point m8, zoonegara have a good stock of Storms stork
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#40
27-11-2007
You have a point Pedro. Jurong however has never been too keen nor successful in breeding large waterfowl species, perhaps with the exception of milky storks and crowned cranes and flamingos. The breeding focus is mainly on parrots, hornbills, BoPs, maybe because these birds are smaller and thus easier to house off-exhibit which is more conducive for breeding.
Ostriches are to a birdpark what elephants are to a zoo. Visitors expect to see such charismatic and well known species. While ostriches have ZERO conservation value, they are superlative birds afterall. On another note regarding kiang's reply, it is surprisingly hard for Singapore to get animals from Malaysian zoos. Ego and politics easily get into the way. |
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#41
28-11-2007
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That doesn't surprise me... By the way, I've seen some very nice collections in malayan zoos such as Storm's storks, flat-headed cats, lots of civet species, sumatran serows... really interesting despite the fact that most zoos have old enclosures, most of the time not quite suitable... Thanks for your answer, zooish. |
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#42
02-12-2007
regarding the great-billed heron (which coincidentally I saw probably only a few days before Pedro saw it!), the fact that it has a leg-ring doesn't mean it isn't a wild bird. There are hundreds of thousands of wild birds around the world that have been rung for various reasons. Alternatively it could have been a bird brought to the bird park injured and then released when better (after being rung to identify it). It seemed to me to be acting more like a wild bird knowing its on to a good thing and hanging around for the free fish than a captive one. Maybe Zooish would be able to find out its story?
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#43
04-12-2007
Hmm... come to think of it, I remembered seeing signage for the great-billed heron at that exhibit, which means to say it belongs to the park. Its highly unlikely to be wild because it is never seen anywhere else except at the Wetlands pools with the marabou and milky storks.
Don't know if I can find out much because Jurong doesn't really answer such queries over email and I don't know anyone working there. But i'll give it a shot, stay tuned. |
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#44
25-03-2008
Any news on the dinosaur descendants exhibits?
When will it open? Will the Cassowaries still be there? (What species do they keep?) |
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#45
26-03-2008
How cool would it be if the dinosaur descendents had haotzin's in it.
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