Following the previous thread of Storks, Hamerkop, and Shoebill in North America, the second group I chose to do was the Accipitriformes. Using zoo websites and Zoochat, I have compiled together a list of birds of prey housed in North America. All information is at least from June 2016 or newer, most from 2017/2018. Due to the number of species, I have only included species that are present. If anyone has additions or correction of holders or species please let me know. Also, anyone have information on the species holdings of the World Center for Birds of Prey run by the Peregrine Fund? (Boise)
New World Vultures Coragyps American Black Vulture (19 holders) Abilene Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum Austin Nature and Science Center Brevard Buffalo Caldwell Chattanooga Cincinnati Disney’s Animal Kingdom Lehigh Valley Los Angeles Maryland Maymont National Aviary Phoenix Pueblo San Diego Zoo Safari Park (offshow, programs) The Creature Conservancy Turtle Bay Exploration Park Cathartes Greater Yellow-headed Vulture (1 holder) Sedgwick County Turkey Vulture (64 holders) Abilene Alberta Birds of Prey Foundation Alexandria Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum Austin Nature & Science Center Bay Beach Wildlife Sanctuary Beardsley Blandford Nature Center Caldwell California Raptor Center California Science Center Cascades Raptor Center Columbian Park Cosley CuriOdyssey Disney’s Animal Kingdom Elmwood Park Folsom Grizzly & Wolf Discovery Center (1.0) Happy Hollow Park High Desert Museum Hogle Howell Nature Center Idaho Falls Lee Richardson Lehigh Valley Lindsay Wildlife Center Living Coast Discovery Center Louisville Maryland MacKenzie Center McCarthy Wildlife Center Menominee Park Micke Grove North Island Wildlife Recovery Center Northwest Trek Oklahoma City Omaha Orange County Oregon O.W.L. Orphaned Wildlife Rehabilitation Society Pana’ewa Rainforest Philadelphia Phillips Park Phoenix Red Wolf Sanctuary Rosamond Gifford Safari Niagara Saginaw Children’s San Francisco Santa Barbara Scovill Sulphur Creek Nature Center Toledo Topeka Toronto (offshow, programs) Tracy Aviary Trevor Turtle Bay Exploration Park Willowbrook Wildlife Center Woodland Park (1.0) (offshow, programs) Zollman Zoo Montana ZooAmerica Gymnogyps California Condor (9 holders) California Living Museum Los Angeles Oakland Oregon Phoenix San Diego San Diego Zoo Safari Park Santa Barbara World Center for Birds of Prey Vultur Andean Condor (21 holders) Akron Alexandria Beardsley Bronx Brookfield Cincinnati Cleveland Dallas Fort Worth Franklin Park Fresno Chaffee Los Angeles Louisville (offshow, programs) National Aviary Philadelphia Safari Niagara San Diego (1.1 on show, plus 0.1 offshow for programs) San Diego Zoo Safari Park (offshow, programs) Tracy Aviary Turtle Back Zoo Miami Sarcoramphus King Vulture (22 holders) Audubon Alexandria Blank Park Brevard Bronx Cameron Park Charles Paddock Dallas Dickerson Park Fort Worth Gladys Porter Great Plains Honolulu Los Angeles Point Defiance (1.0)(offshow, programs) Riverbanks Roger Williams Park Sedgwick County St. Louis Tracy Aviary Zoo Atlanta Zoo Miami
Elanine Kites Elanus White-tailed Kite (2 holders) Bay Beach Wildlife Sanctuary Cascades Raptor Center
Old World Vultures Sarcogyps Pondicherry Vulture (1 holder?) Palm Beach (offshow; anyone know if it’s still around?) Aegypius Eurasian Black Vulture (Cinereous Vulture) (10 holders) Binder Park Blank Park Buffalo Detroit Lincoln Park Living Desert Milwaukee Pueblo St. Louis Virginia Torgos Lappet-faced Vulture (7 holders) Cincinnati Dallas Detroit Disney’s Animal Kingdom Kansas City Rio Grande Zoo Atlanta Trigonoceps White-headed Vulture (2 holders) Toledo Toronto Gyps Eurasian Griffon (1 holder) Cheyenne Mountain (supposedly 0.1) White-backed Vulture (4 holders) Cleveland Dallas Fort Worth Zoo Boise Cape Griffon (5 holders) Albuquerque Cheyenne Mountain Los Angeles (offshow but the exhibit is visible) Memphis St. Augustine Alligator Farm Rueppell’s Griffon (11 holders) Cincinnati Dallas Detroit Disney’s Animal Kingdom Franklin Park Greenville Louisville National San Diego Zoo Safari Park Santa Barbara Utica Necrosyrtes Hooded Vulture (10 holders) Cleveland Dallas Honolulu National Aviary Oregon Roger Williams Park Safari West San Diego Zoo Safari Park St. Augustine Alligator Farm Zoo Atlanta Neophron Egyptian Vulture (3 holders) Cleveland San Diego Zoo Safari Park World Bird Sanctuary Gypohierax Palm Nut Vulture (4 holders) Dallas Fort Worth National Aviary San Diego Zoo Safari Park
Buteonine Hawks Buteo Augur Buzzard (1 holder) National Aviary (offshow, programs) Hawaiian Hawk (3 holders) Honolulu Louisville Pana’ewa Rainforest Gray Hawk (1 holder) Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum Red-shouldered Hawk (8 holders) California Living Museum Living Coast Discovery Center Living Desert Maymont Red Wolf Sanctuary Sulphur Creek Nature Center Trevor Willowbrook Wildlife Center Broad-winged Hawk (3 holders) Audubon Sharon Bay Beach Wildlife Sanctuary Howell Nature Center Swainson’s Hawk (9 holders) Abilene Alberta Bird of Prey Foundation Applegate Park Bay Beach Wildlife Sanctuary Cascades Raptor Center CuriOdyssey Fort Worth Micke Grove Zoo Montana Red-tailed Hawk (56 holders) Abilene Alaska Alberta Bird of Prey Foundation Alexandria Applegate Park Aquarium of the Americas Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum Audubon Bay Beach Wildlife Sanctuary Brevard California Living Museum Cascades Raptor Center Chattanooga Cleveland Cosely Elmwood Park High Desert Museum Howell Nature Center Indian Creek Irvine Park Kinston Nature Center Lehigh Valley Living Coast Discovery Center Living Desert Los Angeles Maymont Miller Park Milwaukee National Aviary Oakland Orange County Oregon Red Wolf Sanctuary Rosamond Gifford Sacramento (1.0) (offshow, programs) Saginaw Children’s Santa Barbara San Diego (offshow, programs) San Diego Zoo Safari Park (offshow, programs) Saskatoon Forestry Farm Scovill Space Farms St. Louis Toledo Topeka Toronto (offshow, programs) Tracy Aviary Trevor Turtle Bay Exploration Park Wildlife World Wildwood Willowbrook Wildlife Center Woodland Park (1.0) (offshow, programs) Zollman Zoo Boise ZooAmerica Ferruginous Hawk (6 holders) Alberta Bird of Prey Foundation Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum Cascades Raptor Center Living Coast Discovery Center San Diego Zoo Safari Park (offshow, programs) Woodland Park (0.1) (offshow, programs) Rough-legged Hawk (9 holders) Bay Beach Wildlife Sanctuary Calgary Cascades Raptor Center Grizzly & Wolf Discovery Center (0.2) Hogle Safari Niagara Toledo Wildwood Zollman Parabuteo Harris’ Hawk (23 holders) African Lion Safari Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum Brookfield (offshow, programs) El Paso Living Desert Los Angeles Maryland (offshow, programs) Minnesota National National Aviary Oregon Phillips Park Rio Grande Rosamond Gifford Sacramento (1.0) (offshow, programs) Safari Niagara San Diego Zoo Safari Park San Francisco St. Louis Sylvan Heights Bird Park Toledo Toronto (offshow, programs) Woodland Park (offshow, programs)
True Eagles Spizaetus Black-and-White Hawk-Eagle (1 holder) Dallas World Aquarium Ornate Hawk-Eagle (1-3 holders) Dallas World Aquarium San Diego (do they still hold?) World Center for Birds of Prey (do they still hold?) Black Hawk-Eagle (1 holder) Dallas World Aquarium Stephanoaetus Crowned Eagle (3 holders) Fort Worth Los Angeles San Diego Polemaetus Martial Eagle (2 holders) National Aviary Zoo Tampa (offshow, programs) Aquila Golden Eagle (31 holders) African Lion Safari Alaska Alberta Bird of Prey Foundation Bay Beach Wildlife Sanctuary Calgary California Raptor Center Cascades Raptor Center CuriOdyssey Elmwood Park Folsom Grizzly & Wolf Discovery Center (0.1) High Desert Museum Idaho Falls John Ball Lehigh Valley Lindsay Wildlife Experience Living Coast Discovery Center Micke Grove Northwest Trek Orange County Oregon O.W.L. Orphaned Wildlife Rehabilitation Society Safari Niagara San Diego Zoo Safari Park (1.0) (offshow, programs) San Francisco Sulphur Creek Nature Center Topeka Tracy Aviary Turtle Bay Exploration Park Zollman Zoo Montana
Harriers Circus Northern Harrier (3 holders) Alberta Bird of Prey Foundation California Raptor Center Cascades Raptor Center Milvine Kites Ictinia Mississipi Kite (2 holders) Abilene Possumwood Acres Wildlife Sanctuary Milvus Black Kite (1 holder) National Aviary (offshow, programs)
Accipiters Accipiter Sharp-shinned Hawk (2 holders) Alaska Carolina Raptor Center Cooper’s Hawk (3 holders) Bay Beach Wildlife Sanctuary Maymont Trevor Northern Goshawk (2 holders) Bay Beach Wildlife Sanctuary Cascades Raptor Center
Snake-Eagles Terathopius Bateleur (7 holders) Fresno Chaffee Louisville (offshow, programs) National Aviary Sacramento (0.1) San Antonio San Diego St. Louis
Sea Eagles Haliaeetus African Fish Eagle (4 holders) Dallas Kansas City Los Angeles Sylvan Heights Bird Park Bald Eagle (104 holders) African Lion Safari Akron Alaska Alaska Wildlife Conservation Center Alberta Bird of Prey Foundation Alexandria Assiniboine Park Bay Beach Wildlife Sanctuary Beardsley Binder Park Brevard Bronx Brookfield Buffalo Busch Gardens Williamsburg California Living Museum Cameron Park Cape May County Cascades Raptor Center Cheyenne Mountain Cincinnati Cleveland Columbian Park Columbus Dallas Denver Detroit Disney’s Animal Kingdom Elmwood Park Fort Worth Grant’s Farm Greater Vancouver Grizzly & Wolf Discovery Center (2.1) High Desert Museum Hogle Houston Howell Nature Center Indian Creek Indianapolis John Ball Lee Richardson Lehigh Valley Lincoln Park Little Rock Living Coast Discovery Center Los Angeles Louisville Maryland Maymont Memphis Milwaukee Minnesota National National Aviary North Carolina Aquarium Northwest Trek Oakland Ochsner Park Oglebay’s Good Oklahoma City Oregon Palm Beach Philadelphia Phillips Park Phoenix Point Defiance (0.1) (offshow, programs) Pueblo Queens Red Wolf Sanctuary Roger Williams Park Rosamond Gifford Safari Niagara Salisbury San Antonio San Diego San Diego Zoo Safari Park San Francisco Santa Ana Santa Barbara Saskatoon Forestry Farm Scovill Sedgwick County Six Flags Discovery Kingdom (offshow, programs) St. Louis Stone Toledo Toronto Tracy Aviary Tulsa Turtle Back Utica Virginia (1.0) Wildlife Learning Center Wildlife Safari Wildwood Willowbrook Wildlife Center Zollman Zoo Atlanta Zoo Boise Zoo Knoxville Zoo Miami Zoo Montana Zoo Tampa ZooAmerica White-tailed Eagle (2 holders) Alexandria World Bird Sanctuary Steller’s Sea Eagle (11 holders) African Lion Safari Assiniboine Park Cincinnati Cleveland Franklin Park Los Angeles Louisville National Aviary Rosamond Gifford San Diego Woodland Park (1.1 I believe)
Harpy Eagles Morphnus Guiana Crested Eagle (1 holder) Dallas World Aquarium Harpia Harpy Eagle (6 or 7 holders) Brookfield (do they still have?) Dallas Dallas World Aquarium Fort Worth Los Angeles San Diego Zoo Miami
Osprey Pandion Osprey (3 holders) Cascades Raptor Center Living Coast Discovery Center Virginia Aquarium
Secretarybird Sagittarius Secretarybird (6 holders) Abilene Dallas Safari West San Diego San Diego Zoo Safari Park Toronto
American Black Vulture also kept by World Bird Sanctuary. Turkey Vulture is also kept by Gabbert Raptor Center, Manitowoc Lincoln Park Zoo, Henry Vilas Zoo, and World Bird Sanctuary. Andean Condor is kept by World Bird Sanctuary. Swainson's Hawk also kept by Grant's Farm. Red-Tailed Hawk also kept by Manitowoc Lincoln Park Zoo, Minnesota Zoo, Gabbert Raptor Center, National Mississippi River Museum & Aquarium, Grant's Farm, and World Bird Sanctuary. Rough-Legged Hawk also kept by Grant's Farm. Harris' Hawk also kept by World Bird Sanctuary. Golden Eagle also kept by Gabbert Raptor Center and World Bird Sanctuary. Northern Harrier also kept by Gabbert Raptor Center. Sharp-Shinned Hawk also kept by Gabbert Raptor Center. Also kept by World Bird Sanctuary, Brookfield (?), and Milwaukee (?). Bald Eagle also kept by Manitowoc Lincoln Park, National Mississippi River Museum & Aquarium, World Bird Sanctuary, Gabbert Raptor Center, Lincoln Park, and MacKensie Center. I am not aware of any Harpy Eagles at Brookfield. Also kept by World Bird Sanctuary. Tawny Eagle Aquila rapax Timbavati Wildlife Park Common Buzzard Buteo buteo World Bird Sanctuary
A couple more other species I forgot: Wedge-Tailed Eagle Aquila audax World Bird Sanctuary Long-Crested Eagle Lophaetus occipitalis World Bird Sanctuary (pretty sure they are the only holder, not sure on this. One male).
I can't believe I forgot this. The NEW Zoo - my home zoo - holds Bald Eagle. Bay Beach's Bald Eagle population should be 1.1 Bay Beach holds 1 female Golden Eagle.
Toronto also has Steller's Sea Eagle. It also has one eurasian eagle owl if you want to know for later.
