Plenty of links to recent (and not so recent!) studbooks in link below. Gems in there include the 2009 Worldwide Bongo studbook (incorrectly listed as 2003) 2008 Tiger studbook of transfers, births and deaths for Amur, Sumatran and Bengal for 2008 and the Asiatic Wild Ass studbook for 2010 to name a few. Studbooks
At last I have achieved one of my ambitions, I can read the bongo studbook. I could never get the link to work before. Well done Nisha.
You are the best, Nisha!! I've been trying to piece together the history of Detroit Zoo chimps, and your link did it for me. THANK YOU!
Info about the latest Cheetah-studbook : What is a studbook and why is it important for conservation?
Nice to see that the population at Harewood which doesn't exist is going strong and currently comprises 4,4 individuals
I can imagine that some of the birds in Leeds will be moved as genetically they are interesting to be paired up with some of the Al-Wabra and Tenerife birds.
That *is* the story that has been put around to explain why they deny even having the birds, but I have also heard suggestion that this story is precisely that.... a story.
That would be something to mention in the studbook then even if you do not name the holder. I would not expect them to have let the pair breed then. PBFD is not as lethal for chicks as PDD and it seems new world parrots are not as badly affected as old world parrots but still I would not have let them breed if they were affected. When I asked a former studbookkeeper about the disease issue I was told it is not an issue and that the reason that they were still in Leeds was that there was no conservation reason for it. Looking at recent developments this view might have changed.
I don't quite understand what's meant here.... From the SB it seems the pair bred in 2010 and again in 2011- but not since? Were the young hand or parent raised do you know? Lastly- is PBFD transmittable from adults to young, or bird to bird? Do the five(?) offspring have it too?
I had some lovebirds with PBFD - one or both were carriers, the chicks were born with weird feathering and despite attentive parents all died before fledging.
I understood the Leeds birds do not have PBFD and yes infected pairs do spread it to their offspring.
This being the crux of the point I made above - that they allegedly do not have PBFD despite the fact the collection variously denies having the birds at all, or claims they have PBFD and hence must be kept away from any human or avian contact.
