{Note from mods - this thread continues from here: Jurong Bird Park News 2020 [Jurong Bird Park]} The new penguin collection for the upcoming park at Mandai includes King, Gentoo and Rockhopper Penguins.
And i presume all the African penguins will be housed at the Zoo's upcoming marine coastal habitat, while the Humboldt's will be phased out?
The park has recently had breeding success with Great Green and Red-bellied Macaws (3 chicks for each species) and also Lesser BoP (1 chick). All are being raised at the Breeding and Research Centre.
I could be reading too much into it, but the upcoming Easter Egg Hunt at Jurong has been labelled as the "final" one. Could this mean that the park will close by April 2022?
The 0.2 Spix's and 2.2 Lear's Macaws have left Singapore, though I'm not sure if they have gone to Pairi Daiza as earlier planned. It's a shame to see them go, but it was a great privilege to have been able to see them regularly during their stay at Jurong.
A little birdie told me that Jurong has received a breeding pair of Northern Cassowaries. Hope they will go on display after quarantine.
My guess is that they've gone to ACTP. They don't seem to have been transferred to another zoo. I wonder if the real reason for Jurong pulling out of the Spix's macaw programme is due to the "controversy" surrounding ACTP? See the article linked below. I must admit that I don't know enough about ACTP to be able to judge the article. Perhaps someone with more knowledge can shed some light? Spix’s macaw returns to Brazil, but is overshadowed by controversy
I really do think it has been totally blown out of proportions. Further, the product of media sensationalist reporting is often that half-baken truths and changed narratives actually stick on like glue and get quoted time and time again. Much like some substandard science papers get multiple quoted when having been published in well respected publications, have been demonstranten to be at fault in other nawer papers, yet due to provenance get first time service attention. For what it is worth: the ACTP has been the first facility that has managed to actually deliver large scale conservation action for threatened and critically endangered psittacines despite efforts with some species in the Carribean out on a much lessen scale. The work with Spix's Macaw is unprecedented and is the first realistic opportunity to have real in situ rewilding prospects for the species that can work and establish a Sustainable population and supported by locals.
Attemps to pair-up Black hornbills at the breeding-station : https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=372754227686279
Some recent additions to Jurong's collection: - Negros Bleeding Heart Dove (Gallicolumba keayi) - still in quarantine - Pink-bellied Imperial Pigeon (Ducula poliocephala) - displayed at Wings of Asia - Brahminy Starling (Sturnia pagodarum) - displayed at Heliconia Walk - African Pygmy Falcon (Polihierax semitorquatus) - visible in the off show aviaries at Window on Paradise - Laughing Kookaburra - displayed at Parrot Paradise
A shipment of Neotropical "jewels" has also just arrived and the birds are in quarantine at the Singapore Zoo's premises: Paradise Tanager (Tangara chilensis) Turquoise Tanager (Tangara mexicana) Opal-rumped Tanager (Tangara velia) Blue-backed Tanager (Cyanicterus cyanicterus) Green Honeycreeper (Chlorophanes spiza) Red-legged Honeycreeper (Cyanerpes cyaneus) Spangled Cotinga (Cotinga cayana) Pompadour Cotinga (Xipholena punicea)
The "bleeding heart" of the Negros species is a narrow slit rather than the patch seen in the Luzon and Mindanao species.
And more orange in colour. Spectacularly beautiful bird and yes, very different from the two species we’re familiar with