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Treasures of the Rainforest - Blue-headed Macaw and Green Magpie Exhibit

Inside the newest exhibit, a walk-through rainforest building. There are free-flight birds as well as three separate aviaries for focal species.

Treasures of the Rainforest - Blue-headed Macaw and Green Magpie Exhibit
fkalltheway, 27 Dec 2015
    • fkalltheway
      Inside the newest exhibit, a walk-through rainforest building. There are free-flight birds as well as three separate aviaries for focal species.
    • Gulo gulo
      What is the distance from the mesh to the wall in these focal exhibits? Almost looks the same as the distance from the guard rail to the front of the mesh.
    • fkalltheway
      The depth of the exhibit varies as the exterior wall of the building is curved. At its widest I'd guess that it is about 6 feet wide, the guard rail is perhaps 2 or 3 feet from the mesh.
    • LaughingDove
      What species of Green Magpie is held here?
      Cissa chinensis or another species? Also, do many zoos in the US hold Green Magpies?
    • Gulo gulo
      Thanks for the information.
    • fkalltheway
      There are three male Cissa chinenesis at Tracy Aviary. The US population of this species is no longer sustainable and is slated to be phased out. Only three US institutions house green magpies (that I know of): Tracy Aviary, Fort Wayne Children's Zoo, and Rosamond Gifford Zoo.
    • LaughingDove
      So no hypoleuca, or thalassina in the US then? that's a shame. The three species are held in Europe, but all in very low numbers unfortunately.
    • temp
      In addition to the few in zoos, there are small numbers of Common Green (C. chinensis) and Indochinese Green (C. hypoleuca) in private aviculture.
      However, the Javan Green (C. thalassina) is highly threatened and the few known captives (Cikinanga, Chester and Prague, with plans to spread out to more European zoos) represent a last ditch effort to save this species from total extinction. Both chinensis and hypoleuca are fairly common in the wild; although interesting exhibits, they're not in need of conservation help and for that reason alone few zoos are willing to put in much effort with them. The last green magpie species, Bornean Green (C. jefferyi), is also fairly common in the wild, but oddly enough it doesn't appear to be in captivity anywhere (might be some in private aviculture in Asia?).
    • fkalltheway
      This exhibit now contains Tawny Frogmouth and Green-naped Pheasant Pigeon
    • Beastking04
      What happened to the birds that were in it?
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