Asian Hornbills in North America

This is a group of birds I have been increasingly interested in the past several months, that are also becoming increasingly rare in North American facilities owning to their generally low breeding success. So why not amass a list of which facilities house what? I'll start with what I know already with reasonable certainty.

Great Indian Hornbill
Toronto Zoo 1.1
Houston Zoo 1.1
Lowry Park Zoo 1.?
Zoo Miami 1.?

Rhinoceros Hornbill
Dallas World Aquarium 2.2?
Houston Zoo 1.1
Cincinnati Zoo ?.1
Toledo Zoo 1.1
Milwaukee County Zoo 1.1

Knobbed Hornbill
Woodland Park Zoo ?.1
St. Augustine Alligator Farm 1.1
San Diego Zoo Safari Park ?.?

Wreathed Hornbill
Dallas Zoo 1.1
San Antonio Zoo 1.1

Blyths/Papuan Hornbill
Peoria Zoo 1.?
Lincoln Park Zoo 1.1

Wrinkled Hornbill
Honolulu Zoo 1.1
San Diego Zoo 1.1

Sulawesi Tarictic Hornbill
San Diego Zoo 1.1
Lowry Park Zoo 3.2
San Diego Zoo Safari Park ?.?

Oriental Pied Hornbill
????

Palawan Hornbill
???

 

If this is realy all there is kept, the future for these species looks very bleak in America !!!

 

I believe SeaWorld San Diego has one. I don't remember the exact species.

 

Thank you for starting a topic on this interesting group of birds. I am also interested in any info that can be provided.

Miami has 1.1. Saint Louis also keeps the species, and San Francisco has a male.

Also Nashville (the species’ most successful breeder), Philadelphia, National Aviary, Saint Louis, Virginia, Jacksonville, and presumably others that I am not aware of.

Bronx keeps a pair behind the scenes that used to be on exhibit. Busch Gardens Tampa also has a pair.

Sylvan Heights, Atlanta, and Jacksonville each have a pair. Oakland keeps the species.

Based off of recent visits by friends, neither has the species anymore, at least not on exhibit.

Brevard and Fort Worth have the species.

Bronx has at least 1.0 in JungleWorld. I believe Staten Island also has the species, if I identified it correctly. I saw an unsigned female.

Bronx, DWA, and Lion Country Safari each keep a pair (presumably 1.1). Oddly enough, LCS’s are kept with squirrel monkeys.

 

I also believe prospect park has 1.1 Wreathed hornbill, unless something has changed

 

Sounds good, thank you everyone! (Especially Jay!)

I'll do a bit more digging tonight and tomorrow and post an updated list tomorrow night

 

Toronto has 1.0 Wrinkled Hornbill

 

Great Indian Hornbill- Births in past 12 months= 0
Audubon Zoo 1.0
Dallas World Aquarium 1.0
Franklin Park Zoo 1.0
Lowry Park Zoo 1.1
Zoo Miami 2.0
Nashville Zoo 1.0
Sacramento Zoo 2.1
San Francisco Zoo 1.0
St. Catherine's Island 1.0
San Diego Zoo Safari Park 2.2
Saint Louis Zoo 1.0
Reid Park Zoo 1.0

Rhinoceros Hornbill- Births in past 12 months= 2
Audubon Zoo 0.1
Baton Rouge Zoo 0.1
Dallas World Aquarium 0.2
El Paso Zoo 1.0
Jacksonville Zoo 1.0
Kansas City Zoo 1.1
LA Zoo 2.0
Minnesota Zoo 1.0
Nashville Zoo 1.2.2
National Aviary 1.0
Virginia Zoo 0.1
Phoenix Zoo 2.2
Sacramento Zoo 0.1
St. Catherine's Island 0.1
Zoo New England 1.0
Toledo Zoo 1.0

Bornean Rhinoceros hornbill- Births in past 12 months= 0
Cincinnati Zoo 1.2
Dallas World Aquarium 0.1
Palm Beach Zoo 1.0
Milwaukee Co. Zoo 1.0
Minnesota Zoo 0.1
Philadelphia Zoo 0.1
Santa Barbara Zoo 0.1
Toledo Zoo 1.0

Javan Rhinoceros Hornbill- Births in past 12 months= 4
Audubon Zoo 1.0
Baton Rouge Zoo 1.0
Dallas World Aquarium 3.1
Palm Beach Zoo 0.1
El Paso Zoo 0.1
Fresno Chaffee Zoo 1.1
Jacksonville Zoo 0.1
Milwaukee Co Zoo 0.1
Nashville Zoo 1.0
National Aviary 0.1
Virginia Zoo 1.0
Philadelphia Zoo 1.0
Phoenix Zoo 2.1
Santa Barbara Zoo 1.0
Sacramento Zoo 1.0
St Catherines Island 1.1
San Diego Zoo Safari Park 1.1
St. Louis Zoo 2.3
Zoo New England 0.1

Knobbed Hornbill- Births in past 12 months= 3
Bronx Zoo 1.1
Sacramento Zoo 1.1
San Diego Zoo Safari park 1.1
Woodland Park Zoo 0.1
St. Augustine Alligator Farm 2.1

Wreathed Hornbill- Births in past 12 months= 0
Riverbanks Zoo 1.1
Dallas Zoo 1.1
Jacksonville Zoo 1.1
Kansas City Zoo 1.1
Prospect Park Zoo 1.0
Six Flags Discovery Kingdom 1.0
San Antonio Zoo 1.1
Central FL Zoo 1.1
St. Catherine's Island 3.4
Tracy Aviary 0.1

Blyth's/Papuan Hornbill
Natural Encounters Inc 1.0

Wrinkled Hornbill- Births in past 12 months= 3
Audubon Zoo 1.2
Baton Rouge Zoo 1.1
Brevard Zoo 1.1
Dallas World Aquarium 1.0
Ft Wayne Children's Zoo 1.2
Peoria Zoo 1.1
Honolulu Zoo 2.1
Jacksonville Zoo 1.0
LA Zoo 1.0
Zoo Miami 1.1
OK City Zoo 1.1
Phoenix Zoo 1.1
St Catherine's Island 2.5
Roger Williams Park Zoo 0.1
Albuquerque Bio Park 1.1.1
San Francisco Zoo 1.1
San Diego Zoo 1.1
San Diego Zoo Safari Park 1.1
Sedgwick Co Zoo 2.1
Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium 0.1
Tracy Aviary 1.0
Tulsa Zoo 1.0

Sulawesi Tarictic Hornbill- Births in past 12 months= 0
Lowry Park Zoo 3.2
Bronx Zoo 1.1
San Diego Zoo 2.1
San Diego Zoo Safari Park 3.1
Staten Island Zoo

Oriental Pied Hornbill- Births in past 12 months= 0
Dallas World Aquarium 1.1
Bronx zoo 1.1
Lion County Safari 0.0.2

Palawan Hornbill
none in US

 

Oakland Zoo has three or four Malayan Wreathed Hornbills. Not sure on sex though.

 

When I visited Denver Zoo in 6/16 they had a pair of 'Great Hornbill' on exhibit.

 

Looks already a lot better then the first list !

 

We have 1.1 rhinoceros hornbills here at the El Paso Zoo.

 

yes they still do and have Rhinoceros Hornbill to

 

I saw three wreathed hornbills at Sylvan heights bird park on Sunday.

 

Malayan black hornbill is kept by Wildlife World Zoo.

 

Thanks everyone! So so far it looks like we have the following in NA:

Great Indian Hornbill
Audubon Zoo 1.0
Dallas World Aquarium 1.0
Denver Zoo 1.1
Franklin Park Zoo 1.0
Houston Zoo 1.1
Lowry Park Zoo 1.1
Zoo Miami 2.0
Nashville Zoo 1.0
Sacramento Zoo 2.1
San Francisco Zoo 1.0
St. Catherine's Island 1.0
San Diego Zoo Safari Park 2.2
Saint Louis Zoo 1.0
Toronto Zoo 1.1
Reid Park Zoo 1.0

Total: 18.7

Rhinoceros Hornbill (no subspecies specified)
Audubon Zoo 0.1
Baton Rouge Zoo 0.1
Dallas World Aquarium 0.2
El Paso Zoo 1.0
Jacksonville Zoo 1.0
Kansas City Zoo 1.1
LA Zoo 2.0
Minnesota Zoo 1.0
Nashville Zoo 1.2.2
National Aviary 1.0
Virginia Zoo 0.1
Phoenix Zoo 2.2
Sacramento Zoo 0.1
St. Catherine's Island 0.1
Zoo New England 1.0
Toledo Zoo 0.0.1*

Total: 11.12.3

Bornean Rhinoceros Hornbill (B. r. borneoensis)
Cincinnati Zoo 1.2
Dallas World Aquarium 0.1
Palm Beach Zoo 1.0
Milwaukee Co. Zoo 1.0
Minnesota Zoo 0.1
Philadelphia Zoo 0.1
Santa Barbara Zoo 0.1
Toledo Zoo 0.0.1*

Total: 3.6.1

Javan Rhinoceros Hornbill (B. r. silvestris)
Audubon Zoo 1.0
Baton Rouge Zoo 1.0
Dallas World Aquarium 3.1
Palm Beach Zoo 0.1
El Paso Zoo 0.1
Fresno Chaffee Zoo 1.1
Jacksonville Zoo 0.1
Milwaukee Co Zoo 0.1
Nashville Zoo 1.0
National Aviary 0.1
Virginia Zoo 1.0
Philadelphia Zoo 1.0
Phoenix Zoo 2.1
Santa Barbara Zoo 1.0
Sacramento Zoo 1.0
St Catherines Island 1.1
San Diego Zoo Safari Park 1.1
St. Louis Zoo 2.3
Zoo New England 0.1

Total: 17.14

Knobbed Hornbill
Bronx Zoo 1.1
Busch Gardens Tampa 1.1
Sacramento Zoo 1.1
San Diego Zoo Safari park 1.1
St. Augustine Alligator Farm 2.1
Woodland Park Zoo 0.1

Total: 6.6

Wrinkled Hornbill
Audubon Zoo 1.2
Baton Rouge Zoo 1.1
Brevard Zoo 1.1
Dallas World Aquarium 1.0
Ft Wayne Children's Zoo 1.2
Peoria Zoo 1.1
Honolulu Zoo 2.1
Jacksonville Zoo 1.0
LA Zoo 1.0
Zoo Miami 1.1
OK City Zoo 1.1
Phoenix Zoo 1.1
St Catherine's Island 2.5
Roger Williams Park Zoo 0.1
Albuquerque Bio Park 1.1.1
San Francisco Zoo 1.1
San Diego Zoo 1.1
San Diego Zoo Safari Park 1.1
Sedgwick Co Zoo 2.1
Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium 0.1
Toronto Zoo 1.0
Tracy Aviary 1.0
Tulsa Zoo 1.0

Total: 24.23.1

Wreathed Hornbill
Dallas Zoo 1.1
Jacksonville Zoo 1.1
Kansas City Zoo 1.1
Oakland Zoo 1.1.?
Prospect Park Zoo 1.0
Riverbanks Zoo 1.1
Six Flags Discovery Kingdom 1.0
San Antonio Zoo 1.1
Central FL Zoo 1.1
St. Catherine's Island 3.4
Sylvan Heights 1.1.1
Tracy Aviary 0.1
Zoo Atlanta 1.1

Total: 14.14.? (2-3 unknown gender birds)

Sulawesi Tarictic Hornbill
Lowry Park Zoo 3.2
Bronx Zoo 1.1
San Diego Zoo 2.1
San Diego Zoo Safari Park 3.1
Staten Island Zoo 0.1

Total: 9.5

Oriental Pied Hornbill
Dallas World Aquarium 1.1
Bronx zoo 1.1
Lion County Safari 1.1

Total: 3.3

Malayan Black Hornbill
Wildlife World Zoo 1.1

Blyth's Hornbill
Natural Encounters Inc 1.0


Thanks to everyone contributing to the post, along with some personal digging on my park, the list is looking much more complete!

Fortunately, the North American asiatic hornbill population is looking not the worst, however the Rhinoceros and Wrinkled populations definitely surpass all the other populations by a sizable portion. It is also of interest about the Rhino population, that we have AT LEAST two separate sub-species, and it would appear the SSP has no qualms about mixing them. A number of pairs are formed between the Borneans, Javans, and non subspecies birds.

Of another area of interest to note, there are a smattering of birds held in private hands, I am aware of at least one pair of wreathed hornbills, and a number of oriental pied hornbill, there are AT LEAST 20-30 birds in private hands, and likely more, a number of which are breeding pairs.

 

Lincoln Park Zoo this species (But I don't know how many).

 

Oakland zoo does have 1.1 wreathed hornbills. I never heard of them having more. I’ll look into it more.