Can any German Zoo nerd confirm this? I seem to remember a guide in a different language? Perhaps that one was in Dutch?
@Nicholas Moss As far as Dark Chanting Goshawk, it's still kept offshow but will be part of bird shows.
BoPs were in the BoP aviaries and Hypocolius (single bird) in the East Africa aviary in the Paradies Halle.
Damn it Damn it..........I must have walked past the King and Raggiana BoP, I only saw Red and Twelve-Wired. I also spent time in the Paradies-Halle but again can't recall seeing Hypocolius at all.
Two new species have been added to Zootierliste, and one of them is not kept in any other European zoo: -Bronze-tailed peacock-pheasant (Polyplectron chalcurum) -Chestnut-bellied Partridge (Arborophila javanica) With this addition, WVP Walsrode now has a total of five species of Arborophila, with one being the newly added Chestnut-bellied Partridge. Edit: and I heard that black-faced ibis (Theristicus melanopis) can now be seen in the wellenanlage. I am visiting tomorrow again so possibly another update tomorrow.
Bronze Tailed Peacock Pheasant is kept at Chester Zoo also, in their Sumatra walkthrough aviary. I don't know if ZTL mentions it but it is definitely there.
You are correct - Chester does keep this species, as does Prague. However, on ZTL, both these holders are listed at subspecific status (P. c. chalcurum) as opposed to the Walsrode individuals which are only listed at species level, hence the error. Even still, this is very good news. The partridges in particular appear to be very attractive birds indeed.
Yes that's right, my error. I do know that they are in other European zoos, as I saw photos of those individuals the other day - so I don't know where the error happened But the partridge is anyhow unique to Walsrode, when it comes to European zoos. A great addition! I actually would assume that the Bronze-tailed are from Prague, but I can't say for sure yet.
I collect Walsrode guidebooks, and even though I'm missing a few, I've never heard of any guidebook being in Dutch or any other language, but I do have a flyer in my collection that's in Dutch.
The Chestnut-bellied patridge has been kept before at Walsrode and in 1988 I took care for one specimen - the only we had at that moment. The same year I was given this bird as a honeymoon-present and I brought it to my private collection in the Netherlands. I was however unable to find a partner for this bird and gave it later to a befriended birdkeeper which however also wasn't able to find a partner... so the bird died 6-7 years later without ever having bred . Only ( very bad ) photo of the 1988- Chestnut-bellied partridge at my private collection.
Some news from todays visit. New species on show: - Bronze-tailed peacock-pheasant (Polyplectron chalcurum) - Boreal owl (Aegolius funereus) - European starling (Sturnus vulgaris) Not new for the park, but got put on show again (some already reported here the other day): - King vulture (Sarcoramphus papa) - Philippine Scops-owl (Otus megalotis) - Speckled mousebird (Colius striatus) - South African black duck (Anas sparsa sparsa) - Ashy-faced owl (Tyto glaucops) Other changes: - The eclectus parrots are now free-flying in the Jungle Trail. - The Austral parakeets are now housed in one aviary by the penguins, together with chilean tinamou. - The umbrellabird is no longer on show, for the first time since they received him in 2013. - Reich der Mitte is now full with birds, I saw all species listed except the black-breasted thrush - One aviary in Pukara is completely empty - so maybe some new species will go there eventually.
Maybe the empty Pukara aviary will be for the Umbrellabird, and that's why it's not on show? Hopefully that's the reason, and not because it's in bad health.
Thanks for all the regular updates you're providing here, @Daniel Sörensen I love Weltvogelpark Walsrode and since I'm not able to visit every year, this is a great way to keep up to date with all of the developments. Let's hope the umbrellabird is doing fine and it will find its way back to the public display at some point. It has always been one of the highlights of the collection.
I've had more information about the umbrellabird for a few days, but I couldn't share it earlier because it wasn't public. Now that the info is also on Zootierliste, which is public, I can finally talk about it. I'm really sad to say that Walsrode's long-wattled umbrellabird actually has passed away. This happened recently. But we can be thankful for the time we had with him at Walsrode, from 2013 until just about a week ago. Now that he's gone, there aren't any long-wattled umbrellabirds left in European zoos, a great loss!
oh dear.... He was part of the reason I was frequenting this thread... in a similar thread to 'Baby' the dolphin of years gone by !! Part of me hopes there may still be some hanging on in private holdings. But from what I recall in the wild they are easy enough to find as they don't fly around much as they are larger birds. Then there's the question of organising an outing to Ecuador!! [As likely as planning one to Dallas in my situation anyhow]
There's always hope - i don't think anyone expected bare-throated fruitcrow to pop up again at Zazjed last year, for instance.
Sad - my first experience with the species was actually years before Walsrode acquired one, in Veldhoven Zoo (called ''Nederlandse Opvang Papegaaien'' back then). That park had such an exquisite collection of birds back then. So many rare toucans, hornbills and cotinga's... The umbrellabird will be missed.
Who all came from a private breeder not too far from the place who bred among others, cock of the rocks
