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    Zoo#195
    Greenville Zoo
    Greenville, South Carolina
    Highlights: Angolan colobus, Troupial, Black-headed spider monkey, and others.
    Zoo#196
    Bays Mountain Park
    Kingsport, Tennessee
    Highlights: Piebald white-tailed deer
     
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    Zoo#197
    Tri-State Zoo D
    Cumberland, Maryland
    Highlights: Cats roaming around.
    Zoo#198
    Hovatter's Wildlife Zoo B-
    Highlights: Patas monkeys, Kodiak bears, Spotted hyenas, and antelope species.
     
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    Zoo #199 Hobcaw Barony Discovery Center B+
    Georgetown, South Carolina
    Small building with fish, snakes, and an alligator.
    Highlights: none
    Zoo #200 Animal Forest A
    Charleston, South Carolina
    Small zoo inside Charles Towne State Historic Site. Native mammal and bird exhibits plus a small outdoor aviary. Lots of lizards seen here. Highlights: none
    Zoo #201 Magnolia Plantation A
    Charleston, South Carolina
    Large arboretum with a so-called petting zoo. Lots of animals and a poison ivy exhibit. Highlights: Albino Eastern gray squirrel, Eastern fox squirrel, petting deer, and more.
     
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    Zoo #202 Trailside Museums and Zoo
    Tomkins Cove NY
    Inside Bear Mountain State Park, this place is home to three museums, a small animal building, and scattered exhibits. Highlights: Stoat, Muskrat, Rough- legged hawk, and others.
    Zoo #203 Teatown Lake Reservation
    Ossining, NY
    Nature center with 20 or so animals. Outside are a series of raptor cages. Nothing interesting.
    Zoo #204 Greenburgh Nature Center
    Scarsdale, NY
    Nature center inside has several rooms with a nice collection of small animals. Greenhouse has tank with American eel. Outside are raptor exhibits and a barnyard. Highlights: Rococo toad and wild animals.
    Zoo #206 Weinberg Nature Center
    Scarsdale, NY
    Building was closed today. Outside are two Eastern gray squirrel enclosures. One has 6 squirrels, 4 of them babies. The other has a melanistic squirrel. There are also many wild animals such as rabbits and chipmunks running around.
     
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    Beardsley Zoo Bridgeport, CT B+
    Small zoo. Did not visit rainforest or research station. Farmyard closed. Very nice exhibits. Highlights: Maned wolf and Chacoan peccary.
    Earthplace Museum Westport, CT A-
    Small museum with 20 species inside and 10 species of raptors outside. Highlights: Yellow-spotted salamander, big brown bat, and others.
    Maritime Aquarium Norwalk, CT A
    Small aquarium with a nice variety of species. Only one Lemon shark left. Highlights: Lemon shark, Geoffroy's tamarin and others
    Visited Weinberg again. Nothing of interest in the building itself.
     
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    Thompson Park Zoo A- Monroe Township, NJ
    Large park with a few domestic animals and a giant forest area with 50 or so deer.
     
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    Have you visited Action Wildlife in Goshen by any chance?
     
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    No, though I probably will in the future sometime.
     
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    Zoo #210 Elmwood Park Zoo B+ Norristown, PA
    Small but nice zoo with a few rarities. Highlights: Madrean alligator lizard, Ocelot, and Canary-winged conure
    Zoo #211 Irvine Nature Center A Owings Mills, MD
    Small collection with 20 species of fish, reptiles, amphibians, and 2 House sparrows.
     
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    Zoo #212 Baldcypress Nature Center C Laurel, DE
    Tiny collection with fish and a Corn snake. No highlights.
     
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    Bright's Zoo is one you've missed in Tennessee.
     
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    I have been there
     
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    Zoo #213 Forsyth Nature Center Kingston, NY B+
    a series of bird, reptile, and domestic mammalian exhibits. No highlights
    Zoo #214 Trevor Zoo Millbrook, NY A
    Small zoo with a variety of fascinating animals. Unfortunately, only one serow and kea were seen. Highlights: Kea, Japanese serow, Garnett's galago, and others.
    Zoo #215 Lupa Zoo Ludlow, MA B
    One of the strangest and most un-navigable collections in the United States. Many rare animals are located here. Highlights: Three- stripes night monkey, Northern tamandua, White-eyed conure, and others.
     
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    Zoo #216 Mystic Aquarium Stonington, CT B
    One of the less interesting aquariums. Like Georgia Aquarium, it's main attractions are marine mammals. There are no animals of interest other than a few frogs. Highlights: Steller sea lion, Beluga, Bird Poop frog, and others.
    Zoo #217 Meigs Point Nature Center A
    A great collection comprised of three exhibits. Life at the Beach was closed. Life at the sea has fish tanks and a touch tank with lobsters, crabs, and others. Life at the woods has reptiles and amphibians. There are also exhibits for a Blue Jay and Monk parakeets. Highlights: Eastern spadefoot toad, Black racer, and others.
     
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    Zoo #218 Darien Nature Center Darien, CT B
    Small collection with about thirty species of mammals, reptiles, amphibians, invertebrates, and doves. No highlights.
     
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    Zoo #219 Willow Grove Nature Center Parksville, MD A-
    On the better side of the nature center coin, this collection has turkeys, chickens, mallards, and an opossum outside, and reptiles, amphibians, and a starling inside. Highlights: Virginia opossum.
    Zoo #220 Carrie Murray Nature Center Baltimore, MD C+
    If there was a way to describe this place, it would be irrepressibly dull. Inside are reptiles, amphibians, and an Eastern screech owl. Outside are three empty raptor cages and another 2, one with Turkey vulture and the other with a red-tailed hawk.
     
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    Zoo #221 Calvert Marine Museum Solomons, MD B+
    Uninteresting museum with uninteresting animals (except otters). Highlights: Lighthouse and torpedo.
     
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    Zoo #223 Norfolk Botanical Gardens Norfolk, VA A
    Large collection with the usual butterfly garden and koi pond. Highlights: Wild hummingbird.
    Zoo #224 Imperial Center for the Arts and Sciences. Rocky Mount, NC C-
    A building housing several museums and a theater. The Science museum has a Live Animal gallery with American alligators, Horseshoe crabs, Dusky sandfish, Pinfish, Marsh killifish, Southern flounder, and other fish I have forgotten. There is also an empty enclosure which was the home of a python species. Highlights: none.
     
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    Zoo #224
    Sewee Visitor and Environmental Center Awendaw, SC B+
    A visitor center with exhibits and walking trails home to four Red wolves. Highlights: wild White Ibis and Anhinga
    Zoo #225 Center for Birds of Prey Awendaw, SC A
    The main raptor collection on the east coast, with 152 acres of raptor enclosures, an medical clinic, off exhibit areas, and other things. 44 species are exhibited to the public here, mostly in the Diurnal collection and some in Owl Wood. There also birds used for flight demonstrations (I believe Bateleur is one), but I don't know what they are. I counted: 2 Crested Caracaras, 3 American kestrels, a Sharp-shinned hawk, a Abdim's stork, 4 Asian brown wood owls, a Northern harrier, 3 Great horned owls, a Rough-legged hawk, 4 Red-tailed Hawks, a Zone-tailed hawk, a Short-tailed hawk, a Saker falcon, 2 Barbary falcons, a Peregrine falcon, 4 Mississippi kites, a Swallow-tailed kite, a Cooper's hawk, 1 or 2 Black vultures, 4 Lesser yellow-headed vultures, 8 Bald eagles, a Golden eagle, a Tawny eagle, 5 Harris's hawks, 2 Red-shouldered hawks, a Common buzzard, a Broad-winged hawk, 2 White-tailed hawks, a Steppe eagle, 2 Ferruginous hawks, a Marabou stork, 3 Turkey vultures, 2 Augur buzzards, 6 Pharaoh eagle-owls, a Chaco owl, a Burrowing owl, a Southern white-faced scops owl, 2 Spectacled owls, a American barn owl, 3 European barn owls, 2 Eurasian eagle-owls, a African spotted eagle-owls, a Vermiculated eagle-owl, a Barred owl, and a hybrid between African spotted and Vermiculated eagle-owls.
     
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    Found out that they have/had Red kite. Forgot to put Ural owl in the list. Possibly they have White-tailed sea eagle.