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

21-06-2008

binoculars are also handy for the wild birds that the place attracts. The woodpecker aviaries often attract wild woodpeckers coming to check out their captive friends (I've also seen tree shrews there)

26-06-2008

Having been to Jurong in a long time, the only time i touched on it was on the Singapore Puntianak,

I was 5 last time i went and i automatically loved the Rhinocerous hornbill, of the 600 species there,

Which brings me to my question perhaps Writhedhornbill or zooish could answer this Accroding to asian tales which Hornbills is from heaven or the "holy" hornbill?

21-07-2008

Its pelican breeding season at the BirdPark and the good news: 2 Spot-billed pelican chicks and 3 Dalmation pelican chicks were hatched.

21-07-2008

Woooooo!!!

Are these pelicans still on show?
Any news about whether the Green junglefowl are back on show?
Are the germain's and Malayan peacock pheasant still on exhibit?

21-07-2008

Pelicans are great though my experince wiht them is that they like to peck at me a lot, some of the ones on the path,

Peacocks though are generally well behaved though at Melbourne, I saw some kids toss some rocks on to one , I told them off but the peacock didn't retaliate in anyway,

aren't they supposed to be agressive when attacked?

22-07-2008

The pelicans are nesting on the Pelican Cove exhibit island, so they are visible to the public.

I noticed Jurong has been making a conscious effort to reduce fowl species, including pheasants because of bird flu. I suspect a number of birds have been culled, including a whole flock of about 6 to 8 black-necked swans. This wasn't reported or made public, my own guess. The swans just all vanished between 2 visits which were no more than couple months apart.

22-07-2008

Thanks zooish, in a week I'll be in Borneo, and then the week after Singapore!

22-07-2008

Sadly the woodpecker exhibit no longer exists. The aviaries now serve as holding cages for surplus African species like the red-billed hornbill, turacos and lovebirds.

23-07-2008

Cool my parents are chinese and were born in Malaysia, Sarawak hope you get the chance to go to Kuching, there is the crocodile farm of the notorious Bujang Senang and there is also a beautiful orang utan Sanctuary, I've always wanted to go there,

23-07-2008

that's a shame. I didn't think the woodpecker and kingfisher aviaries were all that nice in themselves (kind of small and pokey I thought, but that may have just been in comparison to the birds of paradise etc aviaries which are so large) but it was nice to have the birds all together. Where are the woodpeckers now, or are they gone completely?

25-07-2008

I'm preety sure but is Jurong and Singapore zoo owned by the same organisation?

26-07-2008

The benefit of having individual aviaries is that you can spot the birds with much greater ease as compared to the large walk-in aviaries.

The woodpeckers have not been relocated anywhere. I doubt they have been released into the larger SE Asian aviary, considering they might do a bit of damage to the trees.

26-07-2008

Technically the government owns them, but yes they are being run by a government-linked organization/company called Wildlife Reserves Singapore.

26-07-2008

Thank you Zoosih,
Singapore I find has very beautiful zoos, plus the weather is also beautiful, it pitches in the life likeness,

Cassowary
14-04-2009

I wonder wear jurong got their single wattled cassowaries? I am trying desperately to find some, there are none in north america except for my female that I have aquired, I have raised double wattled cassowaries for years now. Its ashamed there arent more single wattles in captivity, I would love to help fix that if I could find some to import. Can anyone help? If so, please email me...casuarius81@yahoo.com. Thanks