Burgers' Zoo free-ranging species in Burgers Bush, Desert and Mangrove

As the signage in Burgers Bush, Burgers Desert & Burgers Mangrove is relatively poor, I created an up-to-date list of the free-ranging species one could encounter in these two domes. For completeness sake, I also included the non-free ranging animals.

For a guide on where to find each species in the Bush look HERE.

Last update: January 2020

* indicates there are five or less zoos in Europe displaying this species.
** indicates that this is the only zoo in Europe where this (sub-)species is displayed.

Burgers Bush

MAMMALS

Rodriquez fruit bat
Lyles' fruit bat
Seba's short-tailed bat

BIRDS


Chaco chacalaca
Crested wood partridge

White-faced whistling-duck

Madagascar crested ibis
Scarlet ibis

Sun bittern

Victoria crowned pigeon
Green naped pheasant pigeon
Pinon imperial pigeon*
Green imperial pigeon
Luzon bleeding heart pigeon
Green winged pigeon
Nicobar pigeon
Orange-fronted fruit dove

Wrinkled hornbill

Red-crested turaco

Speckled mousebird

White-eared catbird*
White rumped shama
Snowy-crowned robin chat
Chestnut-backed ground trush
Fairy bluebird
Golden-fronted leafbird*

Red-rumped cacique*
Montserrat trupial

Screaming piha**

Purple honeycreeper
Madagascar red fody
Brazilian tanager
Chestnut-bellied seedfinch**
Red-whiskered bulbul
Blue-backed grassquit
Rose-bellied bunting*


REPTILES AND AMPHIBIANS

Green iguana
Guadeloupe anole*
Plumed basilisk
Common house gecko
Montserrat whistling frog
Spotted running frog

NON-FREE RANGING SPECIES

Aardvark
Small clawed otter
Capybara

Broad-snouted caiman
Red-footed tortoise
Yellow-spotted Amazon river turtle
Asian leaf turtle


Occelated stingray
Redtail catfish
Plecostomus spec.
Pirapitanga
Nile tilapia
Zebra cichlid
Guppy
Labeobarbus intermedius**


Burgers Desert

BIRDS

Turkey vulture

Gambells quail*
Scaled quail

White-winged dove
Socorro dove

Lawrence goldfinch**
Northern cardinal
Painted bunting*
Rose-bellied bunting*
Yellow grosbeak**
Ultramarine grosbeak


NON-FREE RANGING SPECIES

Cactus mouse*
Hispid cotton rat*
Merriams kangaroo rat*
Variegated rock squirrel*
Bobcat
Ring-tailed chacomistle*
Californian bighorn sheep*
Collared pecari
Seba short-tailed bat

Greater roadrunner
Burrowing owl
Housefinch

Gila monster
Red diamondback rattlesnake
Milk snake

Colorado toad

Blind cave fish
Fathead minnow

Red-legged tarantula
Cave cricket
Arizona scorpion

Burgers Mangrove

MAMMALS:

West Indian manatee

BIRDS:

White-winged dove

Red-legged honeycreeper
Blue-backed grassquit
Northern cardinal
Indigo bunting*
Violaceous euphonia

REPTILES:

Striped basilisk
Allison's anole
White-throated gecko

FISH:

Tropical gar
Redhead cichlid
Lowland cichlid
Salvin's cichlid
Firemouth cichlid
Pantano cichlid
Blue-eye cichlid
Banded astyanax
Liberty molly
Green swordtail
Pike topminnow
Bay snook
Mexican tetra
Yucatan gambusia
Seaweed blenny
Mangrove molly
Surgeonfish spec.

INVERTEBRATES:

Mangrove jellyfish
Mudflat fiddler crab
West African fiddler crab
Atlantic horseshoe crab
Bumblebee millipede

Owl butterfly
Glasswing
Doris longwing
Orange-barred sulphur
Blue morpho
Zebra mosaic
Zebra longwing
Marbled leafwing
Thoas swallowtail
Malachite
Grecian shoemaker
Transandean cattleheart
Red cracker
Blue cracker
One-spotted prepona

Any updates are off course welcome

 

My goodness lintworm, this is an incredible resource! Thanks for sharing! Extremely helpful.
(I visited last week )

 

You're welcome.

Recently a new species was released in the Bush: the Blue-crowned laughingtrush (5 Birds arrived from London).

 

Another update:

The last Black-capped babblers passed away, so there are none in European zoos anymore. Also I highly doubt the Malaysian giant pond turtle is still present in the manatee exhibit.

New species for the bush:

black-capped pitta
Green imperial pigeon
Orange-fronted fruit dove
White-eared catbird
Giant pangasius

 

Soccoro dove is free-ranging.

 

In the past months both Superb fruit doves (taken off display) and Pied imperial doves (left the park) have been taken out of the Bush and green backed twinspots and Chestnut-bellied seed finches were added.

 

So there are 39 species of bird in Bush at the moment what a useful resource! Thanks @lintworm

 

Wonderful topic, and very much needed indeed! Thank you very much.

A few amendments:
Bush: Early this year, I saw scissor-billed starlings in the Bush. Zootierliste also lists African slender lungfish for the Burgers' Bush, though I'm not sure whether they are in with the caimans or the manatees (nor sure that they are still present).
Desert: Since walsrode got a bunch of yellow grosbeaks, they are no longer the only collection with the species.

Let's hope the signage in the upcoming mangrove *is* good enough so it doesn't need to be on this list!

 

Would still be good to have the Mangrove species list here just in case! We could even do one for Rimba, Safari and Ocean too though I think Ocean would take a very long time to write up and to edit!

 

Thanks for the updates, I fixed them in the first post. The starlings were originally released in the Bush (that must have been around 2007), but they were at some point (all?) taken out and moved to the bird house. But apparently they are back

The lungfish were originally kept together with some catfish and a bunch of tilapia in the pond between the capybara and the lower terrace of the restaurant, but that was years ago. A few years ago I saw a lungfish with the caimans sometimes, but I haven't seen that one in quite a long time, so I think it is safe to say that it has ceased to be.

@Shonenjake, I do not see the need for a similar lists for both the Rimba and Safari. One for the Ocean would be interesting, but a hell of a job to update for the large coral reef tank and the lagune tank....

 

At least one lungfish was still alive a few weeks ago.

 

New thread maybe? We could attempt it at least!! (I'll be visiting again in a couple of weeks so I can try and list all the species I see)

 

Guadeloupe anole should be one star instead of two as three zoos in Europe keep them now.

Also if you're including Tunnel species in Desert then shouldn't Seba's short tailed bat and Mexican blind cave fish be there too?

 

Can anyone help me with where exactly the fish species in Desert and Bush are kept? I know that the stingrays are in with the caiman and the pangasius and pacu are in with the manatees, but I'm a bit lost beyond that!

EDIT: Also where the black marsh turtles are! I know the yellow-spotted live in that bay where the capybaras live (right by the manatees), but that's it!

 

The arowana, redtail catfish, plecostomus and tiger sorubim are with the caiman, the zebra cichlids are in a pool across the red-footed tortoises and the guppies are basically everywhere, but the other species I can't help you with I'm afraid!

 

That helps enormously @korhoen!! I know where all the birds and mammals are kept in both, but am still struggling with some of the others. My Bush list so far looks like this:

Yellow-spotted Amazon river turtle = capybaras
Black marsh turtle = ?
Malaysian giant pond turtle (?) = manatees(?)

African lungfish = caimans or pool between terrace and capybaras
Arowana = caimans
Occelated stingray = caimans
Redtail catfish = caimans
Plecostomus spec. = caimans
Tiger sorubim = caimans
Pacu = manatees
Nile tilapia = pool between terrace and capybaras(?)
Oscar = ?
Zebra cichlid = pool across from tortoises
Guppy = everywhere
Labeobarbus aeneus = ?
Giant pangasius = manatees

And for Desert my list is:

Mexican blind cave fish = stalactite cave in Tunnel
Fathead minnow = ?

Thanks for the help

 

Filled in the empty spaces for you. There also used to be kissing gourami in the waterfall pond, in the part with the floating vegetation, which can be seen from the manatee bridge. It is worth checking whether they are still around .

 

Ah thanks! I will

 

Hmm, another question. With rosefinch in the desert, do you mean house finch, Haemorhous mexicanus? As those were definitely freeroaming in the main hall in February, as opposed to in a seperate enclosure.

I'm not sure, actually, if there are any 'unique' birds in the small aviary? It was blocked off on my last visit, so I couldn't really check.

 

Yeah he means House Finch.