Chester Zoo Galliformes at Chester zoo from 2000-2005

I took this info from the zoos annual reports. If you don't understand feel free to ask questions.

2002
In 2000 Chester only had one female Blyth’s tragopan. By the end of 2001 a male joined her. This put Chester in a perfect spot for Breeding. There were 4 male and 2 female satyr tragopans at the begining of 2000 but at the end of 2001 there were 2 males 2 females. 2 of the males were sent to another zoo/zoos
Chester had had a pair of Palawan peacock pheasants for about 7 years now and they breed regurlarly. They also bred in 2002. On the subject of peacock pheasants In 2002 chester also had the malayan and the mountain peacock pheasants both of which aer now longer kept. The pair of Malayan Peacock pheasants died in 2001 probably of old age. There was 2 males, 1 female and an unknown Mountain peacock pheasant at the start of 2000. One of the males and the unknown had died by the end of 2001.
There has been a female argus at chester for some years now. It would be really nice if it could breed with a male from another zoo like San diego or Edinburgh. The argus at Chester shares it’s aviary with the red billed blue pie in the small aviary near the orangs and the Aquarium. Both areas will be or have been renevated.
Of the lophura species Chester has the Edward’s, Vietnamese and the malayan crestless fireback.
Chester bred The vietnamese pheasant, Satyr tragopan and Palawan peacock pheasant in 2002. There was a male and a female born in 2002 of the vietnamese pheasant. Chester no longer holds the species. The satyr tragopan died after less than 30 days.
Before 2002 the Blyth’s and Saytr tragopan were bred. As were the mountain peacock pheasant, Palawan peacock pheasant, Edward’s pheasant, Malayan crestless fireback, vietnamese pheasant, green peafowl and the Congo peafowl.

2003

Green peafowl bred in 2003 but the female died. This leaves the male that is currently at the zoo and another youngster. The youngster died in 2004.
In 2003 the pair of Mountain peacock pheasants died. Probably of old age.
As there was a spare vietnamese pheasant female another male was brought in to be paired up with her. Sadly one of the females died.
One of the male Satyr tragopans died. This leaves 1 male 2 females.
One of the 3 palawan peacock pheasant males died.


2004

Chester bred red billed curassows for the first time. At the end of the year there was 1.1.1 at the zoo.
The pair of Blyth’s tragopan moved to another collection/s. The male Satyr tragopan died leaving 0.2.0 at the zoo.
One of the male vietnamese Pheasants died leaving 1.1.0 at the zoo.
The female Edward’s pheasant died. There is only one male at the zoo.
One of the female Palawan peacock pheasants died. There are now 2 pairs at the zoo.

2005

Palawan peacock pheasants had 2 youngsters. One died after 30 days.
Also bred were the red billed currasows. It leaves 1.1.2 at the zoo.
A malayan crestless firebck was born but it died after 30 days.
A male Satyr Tragopan arrived to join the 2 females. One female was moved away but the other died. That leaves only 1 male.

That’s up to 2005. I now know that Chester has a pair of Satyr Tragopan and has just recieved 2.1. Salvardori’s pheasant. I think that they are for the new orang house.

 

Chester currently has:

1.0.0 Edward's pheasant
1.1.0 Malay crestless firback
1.1.0 Vietnamese pheasant
2.1.0 Salvadori's Pheasant
1.1.0 Satyr tragopan
1.0.0 Javan Green peafowl
0.1.0 Great argus pheasant
2.1.0 Palawan Peacock pheasant
2.2.0 Red billed currassow

 

this threads running hot!!

you should start another titled "non-passerines at chester zoo 1981-1984"...

 

I casn only do it from 200 to 2005 as they are the only annual reports they have on their site.

 

I could post a list of Galliformes (or any other group of animals) kept at Chester Zoo since 1978 if it would be of use, though it may take me a while to do so. My PC is having an upgrade next week.

 

Where do you get all the info from? Is it from the zoo library?

 

I suppose it is in the zoo library. I have annual reports going back to 1962. A stock list has been published since 1978, though this years (for 2006) is included in the NEZS annual report as a CD. A paper copy is available for members who want one, I have requested it.

 

How do you request one. I'd really like to see one.

 

I think only senior members are entitled to an annual report. See my new thread Chester Zoo stocklist 2006. I have uploaded the pdf files for the animal list.

 

I have seen them. thanks for putting them up.

 

Furthur info for all lovers of pheasants. This covers the period 1986-1988
Chester Zoo Galliformes 1st January 1986

Variable Chacalaca 1.0
Bare-faced Curassow 2.2 (listed as Sclater's Crested Curassow)
Crested Guan 1.1
Californian Quail 1.0
Madagascan Partridge 1.1
Roulroul Partridge 2.1
Satyr Tragopan 1.1
Blue Eared Pheasant 2.2
Brown Eared Pheasant 1.0
White Eared Pheasant (drouyni subspecies) 1.1
Golden Pheasant 1.1
Grey Peacock Pheasant 1.1
Palawan Peacock Pheasant 4.1
Sonnerat's Jungle Fowl 0.1
Blue Peafowl 7.10

arrivals 1986
Variable Chacalaca 0.1
Californian Quail 0.1
Chinese Painted Quail 3.3
MAdagascan Partridge 1.1
Roulroul Partridge 2.1
Himalayan Monal Pheasant 1.3
Brown Eared Pheasant 0.2
Golden Pheasant 1.0
Grey Peacock Pheasant 1.0
Blue Peafowl 1.0
Indochinese Green Peafowl 1.1

hatched 1986
White Eared Pheasant (drouyni subspecies) 3 (2 did not survive)
Golden Pheasant 9 (1 did not survive)
Grey Peacock Pheasant 4 (1 did not survive)
Blue Peafowl 5

died 1986
Californian Quail 0.1
Chinese Painted Quail 1.1
Madagascan Partridge 1.0
Roulroul Partridge 1.0
Brown Eared Pheasant 0.1
Grey Peacock Pheasant 1.0
Blue Peafowl 0.2

disposals 1986
Crested Guan 1.1
Chinese Painted Quail 2.2
Himalayan Monal Pheasant 0.2
Blue Eared Pheasant 1.0
Browen Eared Pheasant 0.1
Golden Pheasant 1.0.8
Grey Peacock Pheasant 2
Sonnerat's Jungle Fowl 0.1
Blue Peafowl 4.3.5

Chester Zoo Galliformes 1st January 1987

Variable Chacalaca 1.1
Bare-faced Curassow 2.2 (listed as Sclater's Crested Curassow)
Californian Quail 1.0
Madagascan Partridge 2.2
Roulroul Partridge 2.2
Satyr Tragopan 1.1
Himalayan Monal Pheasant 1.1
Blue Eared Pheasant 1.2
Brown Eared Pheasant 1.0
White Eared Pheasant (drouyni subspecies) 1.1.1
Golden Pheasant 1.1
Grey Peacock Pheasant 1.1.1
Palawan Peacock Pheasant 4.1
Blue Peafowl 4.5
Indochinese Green Peafowl 1.1

arrivals 1987
Variable Chacalaca 1.0
Californian Quail 0.2
Himalayan Monal Pheasant 0.1
Blue Eared Pheasant 2.0
White Eared Pheasant (drouyni subspecies) 0.1
Palawan Peacock Pheasant 0.1
Congo Peafowl 1.1

hatched 1987
White Eared Pheasant (drouyni subspecies) 1 did not survive
Golden Pheasant 8 (3 did not survive)
Grey Peacock Pheasant 4
Palawan Peacock Pheasant 2 (1 did not survive)
Blue Peafowl 13

died 1987
Variable Chacalaca 1.0
Californian Quail 0.2
Madagascan Partridge 0.1
Himalayan Monal Pheasant 0.1
Blue Eared Pheasant 1.0
Brown Eared Pheasant 0.1
White Eared Pheasant (drouyni subspecies) 0.1
Blue Peafowl 7

disposals 1987
Bare-faced Curassow 1.0
White Eared Pheasant (drouyni subspecies) 1
Golden Pheasant 5
Grey Peacock Pheasant 4
Palawan Peacock Pheasant 2.0
Blue Peafowl 1

Chester Zoo Galliformes 1st January 1988

Variable Chacalaca 1.1
Bare-faced Curassow 1.2
Californian Quail 1.0
Madagascan Partridge 2.1
Roulroul Partridge 2.2
Satyr Tragopan 1.1
Himalayan Monal Pheasant 1.1
Blue Eared Pheasant 2.2
Brown Eared Pheasant 1.0
White Eared Pheasant (drouyni subspecies) 1.1
Golden Pheasant 1.1
Grey Peacock Pheasant 2.1
Palawan Peacock Pheasant 2.3
Blue Peafowl 4.5.5
Indochinese Green Peafowl 1.1
Congo Peafowl 1.1

arrivals 1988
Californian Quail 0.1
Brown Eared Pheasant 0.2
Grey Peacock Pheasant 0.1
Palawan Peacock Pheasant 1.0
Blue Peafowl 2.2

hatched 1988
Variable Chacalaca 1
Bare-faced Curassow 7.0.1 (1 did not survive)
Roulroul Partridge 21 (17 did not survive)
Satyr Tragopan 1
White Eared Pheasant (drouyni subspecies) 3 (1 did not survive)
Golden Pheasant 4 (1 did not survive)
Grey Peacock Pheasant 3 (2 did not survive)
Palawan Peacock Pheasant 1
Blue Peafowl 21 (1 did not survive)

died 1988
Bare-faced Curassow 1.0
Madagascan Partridge 1.0
Roulroul Partridge 2
Satyr Tragopan 1
Grey Peacock Pheasant 1
Palawan Peacock Pheasant 0.1

disposals 1988
Bare-faced Curassow 1.0
Madagascan Partridge 1.0
Brown Eared Pheasant 0.1
Golden Pheasant 3
Blue Peafowl 17

 

And this for 1989 and 1990

Chester Zoo Galliformes 1st January 1989

Variable Chacalaca 1.1
Bare-faced Curassow 6.2 (listed as Sclater's Crested Curassow)
Californian Quail 1.1
Madagascan Partridge 0.1
Roulroul Partridge 2.2.2
Satyr Tragopan 1.1
Himalayan Monal Pheasant 1.1
Blue Eared Pheasant 2.2
Brown Eared Pheasant 1.1
White Eared Pheasant (drouyni subspecies) 1.1.2
Golden Pheasant 1.1
Grey Peacock Pheasant 2.2
Palawan Peacock Pheasant 3.3
Blue Peafowl 6.7.8
Indochinese Green Peafowl 1.1
Congo Peafowl 1.1

arrivals 1989
Madagascan Partridge 1.1
Satyr Tragopan 1.0
Brown Eared Pheasant 0.1
Golden Pheasant 0.1
Lady Amherst's Pheasant 1.1
Grey Peacock Pheasant 2.0
Edwards' Pheasant 0.1
Blue Peafowl 1.1

hatched 1989
Variable Chacalaca 5 (4 did not survive)
Bare-faced Curassow 2.2.2 (1 did not survive)
Californian Quail 1.1.1 (1 did not survive)
Roulroul Partridge 14 did not survive
Himalayan Monal Pheasant 8 (4 did not survive)
White Eared Pheasant (drouyni subspecies) 2
Golden Pheasant 2 (1 did not survive)
Grey Peacock Pheasant 2 (1 did not survive)
Blue Peafowl 0.1.1 (1 did not survive)

died 1989
Bare-faced Curassow 1.0.1
Madagascan Partridge 1.2
Satyr Tragopan 1.0
Blue Eared Pheasant 1.0
Grey Peacock Pheasant 3.0
Palawan Peacock Pheasant 0.2
Blue Peafowl 0.2.2

disposals 1989
Variable Chacalaca 1
Bare-faced Curassow 5.2
Roulroul Partridge 0.1.2
Himalayan Monal Pheasant 4
White Eared Pheasant (drouyni subspecies) 4
Golden Pheasant 1
Blue Peafowl 4.4.6

Chester Zoo Galliformes 1st January 1990

Variable Chacalaca 1.1
Bare-faced Curassow 2.2 (listed as Sclater's Crested Curassow)
Californian Quail 2.2
Roulroul Partridge 2.2
Satyr Tragopan 1.1
Himalayan Monal Pheasant 1.1
Blue Eared Pheasant 1.2
Brown Eared Pheasant 1.2
White Eared Pheasant (drouyni subspecies) 1.1
Golden Pheasant 1.2
Lady Amherst's Pheasant 1.1
Grey Peacock Pheasant 2.2
Palawan Peacock Pheasant 3.1
Edwards' Pheasant 0.1
Blue Peafowl 3.3
Indochinese Green Peafowl 1.1
Congo Peafowl 1.1

arrivals 1990
Californian Quail 0.2
Temminck's Tragopan 1.1
Blue Eared Pheasant 1.0
Palawan Peacock Pheasant 1.2
Edwards' Pheasant 1.1

hatched 1990
Variable Chacalaca 3 (2 did not survive)
Satyr Tragpoan 1.1
Himalayan Monal Pheasant 19 (2 did not survive)
Brown Eared Pheasant 14 (1 did not survive)
Golden Pheasant 4 (1 did not survive)
Grey Peacock Pheasant 3
Blue Peafowl 6

died 1990
Bare-faced Curassow 1.0
Californian Quail 2
Himalayan Monal Pheasant 1
Blue Eared Pheasant 0.1
Brown Eared Pheasant 0.1
Palawan Peacock Pheasant 0.1
Edwards' Pheasant Pheasant 1.1
Indochinese Green Peafowl 1.1

disposals 1990
Variable Chacalaca 1
Satyr Tragopan 0.1
Himalayan Monal Pheasant 16
Brown Eared Pheasant 11
White Eared Pheasant (drouyni subspecies) 2
Golden Pheasant 3
Grey Peacock Pheasant 3
Palawan Peacock Pheasant 1.0
Blue Peafowl 6

 

When did Chester breed the Blyth's tragopans? I read on an annula report that they were bred prior to the 2002 annual report stock take.

 

1998 when one chick hatched but died before attaining the age of 30 days. This species is very inbred. I'll get round to posting the remaining lists as soon as possible.

 

I've done the next lot of information as attachments, it was easier.

 

Galliformes at Chester 1994 to 1998

 

1999 to 2002

 

2003 to 2006

Galliformes at Chester Zoo 2003 to 2006

 

Brilliant. Keep them coming. Well not of the pheasants, as you've finished them, but maybe storks? Cranes? Tapirs?

 

Give me about a week. Since 1978 when the animal inventory was first published the only storks I can think of at Chester are black storks and white storks. American and Malayan tapirs are the only ones ever to have lived at Chester, though in the early 1960s 2 South American tapirs arrived which were very small and were thought to have been the Peruvian subspecies.