This is a species list from my visit to the Minnesota Zoo on 12/28/22. Species not seen will be listed in Italics. Main Building 1. Black-Footed Penguin 2. Japanese Macaque Discovery Bay 1. Shark Reef: Sand Tiger Shark, Southern Stingray, Whitetip Reef Shark, Blacktip Reef Shark, Green Turtle, Kemp's Ridley Sea Turtle, Queen Angelfish, Sergeant-Major, Bicolor Damselfish, Beaugregory, Yellowtail Damselfish, French Angelfish, Horse-eye Jack, Lookdown, Permit, Yellow-fin Mojarra, Florida Pompano, Bar Jack, Squirrelfish, Atlantic Tarpon, Creole Wrasse, Queen Triggerfsh, Longspine Squirrelfish, Green Moray, Coney, Royal Gramma, Atlantic Spadefish, Atlantic Goliath Grouper, Graysby, Neon Goby, French Grunt, Blue-striped Grunt, Crevalle Jack, White Grunt, Porkfish 2. Bottlenose Dolphin, Hawaiian Monk Seal (Rotated) 3. Estuary: Leopard Shark, Horn Shark, Swell Shark, Bat Ray 4. Tide Pool: Shiner Surfperch, White-spotted Rose Anemone, Bat Star, Short-spined Sea Star, Green Anemone, Red Sea Urchin, Purple Sea Urchin, Club-tipped Anemone, Fish-eating Anemone, Giant Green Anemone, Ochre Star, Painted Anemone, Painted Greenling 5. Blue Dot Jawfish, Naso Tang, Copperband's Butterflyfish, Foxface Rabbitfish, Purple Tang, Longnose Hawkfish, Common Clownfish, Aquatic Snails, Cleaner Shrimp, Lawnmower Blenny, Mandarin Dragonet, Assorted Coral 6. Assorted Coral, Unidentified Hermit Crab, Common(?) Clownfish 7. Blue-green Chromis, Japan Surgeonfish, Double-Saddle Butterflyfish, Latticated Butterflyfish, Bangai Cardinalfish, Sea Goldie 8. Leafy Sea Dragon, Weedy Sea Dragon 9. Lined Seahorse, Cherub Pygmy Angelfish, Spot-tailed Goby, Common(?) Clownfish, Unidentified Hermit Crab, Unidentified Pipefish 10. Splendid Garden Eel, Spotted Garden Eel, Pajama Cardinalfish, Copperband's Butterflyfish, Golden Specs Jawfish, Banded Coral Shrimp 11. Pined-Prawn Shrimp Tropics Trail Free Flight: Free Flying Birds: Lesser Scaup, Marbled Teal, Mandarin Duck, Madagascar Teal, Ferruginous Duck, Ringed Teal, Falcated Duck, Red-Crested Pochard, White-Faced Whistling Duck, New Zealand Shoveler, Common Shelduck, Baikal Teal, Silver Teal, Indian Spot-Billed Duck, Maccoa Duck, Freckled Duck, Garganey, Spotted Whistling Duck, West Indian Whistling Duck, Hooded Merganser, Lesser Flamingo, House Sparrow Madagascar 1. Radiated Tortoise 2. Henkel's Leaf-Tailed Gecko, Sambava Tomato Frog 3. Madagascar Hissing Cockroach 4. Ring-Tailed Lemur Faces of the African Forest 1. Straw-Colored Fruit Bat, Long-Haired Fruit Bat, Egyptian Fruit Bat(?) 2. West African Dwarf Crocidile, African Cichlids 3. Mantled Guereza, DeBrazza's Guenon, Red River Hog Asia 1. Komodo Dragon 2. Bali Mynah, Rose-Crowned Fruit Dove, Gray-Capped Emerald Dove, Indian Star Tortoise 3. Northern White-Cheeked Gibbon 4. Giant Gourami, Rose-Lined Shark, Archerfish, Rosy Barb, Tinfoil Barb, Tiger Loach 5. Burmese Brown Tortoise 6. White-Cheeked Turaco, Sulfur-Crested Cockatoo 7. Fawn-Breasted Bowerbird 8. Rhinoceros Hornbill (Off-exhibit for breeding purposes) 9. Red-Legged Seriama 10. Asian Aviary: Victoria-Crowned Pidgeon, Nicobar Pidgeon, Pied Imperial Pigeon, Domestic Pigeon, Luzon Bleeding-Heart Dove, Gray-Capped Emerald Dove, Black-Naped Fruit Dove, Wompoo Fruit Dove, Asian Fairy Bluebird, Black-Naped Oriole, Grosbeak Starling, Metalic Starling, Oriental Magpie Robin, Golden-Crested Mynah, White-Crested Laughingthrush, Blue-Crowned Laughingthrush, White-Rumped Shama, Red-Vented Bulbul, Chinese Hwamei, Blue-Bellied Roller, Crested Wood Partridge, Moutain Bamboo Partridge, Madagascar Partridge, Sri Lankan Junglefowl, Temminck's Tragopan, Malay Great Argus, Black-Necked Stilt, Spur-Winged Lapwing, Demoiselle Crane, Gaudy Red-Throated Barbet(?), Cotton Pygmy Goose(?) 11. Silvery Langur 12. Malayan Tapir 13. Burmese Brown Tortoise 14. Tropical Reef: Spoiler: Tropical Reef Species Picasso Triggerfish, Threadfin Butterflyfish, Bignose Unicornfish, Brick Soldierfish, Pennant Coralfish, White-spotted Puffer, Emperor Angelfish, Zebra Shark, Orbicular Batfish, White-spotted Bamboo Shark, Port Jackson Shark, Powder Blue Surgeonfish, Bird Wrasse, Harlequin Tuskfish, Palette Surgeonfish, Convict Tang, Foxface Rabbitfish, Spotted Unicornfish, Brown-banded Bamboo Shark, Epaulette Shark, Zebra Moray, King Angelfish, Semicircle Angelfish, Yellow Tang, Bluering Angelfish, Regal Angelfish, Flame Angelfish, Bluegirdled Angelfish, Redtail Butterflyfish, Blackback Butterflyfish, Bluecheek Butterflyfish, Pacific Double-saddle Butterflyfish, Atoll Butterflyfish, Saddle Butterflyfish, Sunburst Butterflyfish, Sunset Butterflyfish, Teardrop Butterflyfish, Vagabond Butterflyfish, Spotband Butterflyfish, Raccoon Butterflyfish, Pearlscale Butterflyfish, Silver Moony, Blackstriped Angelfish, Twospined Angelfish, Barred Spinefoot, Longnose Butterflyfish, Copper-banded Butterflyfish, Foxface Rabbitfish, Lemonpeel Angelfish, Russet Angelfish, Twotone Tang, Brown-and-white Butterflyfish, Yellowface Angelfish, Millet Butterflyfish, Latticed Butterflyfish, Whitetail Dascyllus, Bicolor Angelfish, Orangespot Surgeonfish, Sohal Surgeonfish, Spotted Surgeonfish, Bluespine Unicornfish, Clown Triggerfish, Achillies Tang, Japan Surgeonfish, Orange-lined Triggerfish, Lined Surgeonfish, White-spotted Puffer, Long-spined Porcupinefish, Spotted Sharpnose Puffer, Longhorn Cowfish, White-spotted Boxfish, Guineafowl Puffer, Black-spotted Puffer, Yellow Boxfish, Milkfish, Pinecone Soldierfish, Ornamental Wrasse, Crown Squirrelfish, Sea Goldie, Blunt-headed Wrasse, Clown Fairy Wrasse, Brick Soldierfish, Saddle Wrasse, Five-striped Wrasse, Moon Wrasse, Yellow Brown Wrasse, Yellowtail Clownfish, Orange Clownfish, Clown Anemonefish, Black-axil Chromis, Comet, Bartlette's Anthias, Fidler Ray, Hawksbill Sea Turtle 15. Cape Porcupine 16. Empty (Former Red Panda/Urail) 17. Linnaeus Two-Toed Sloth 18. Burmese Python Creatures Beneath the Canopy 1. Roseate Spoonbill, Scarlet Ibis, Crested Oropendola, Venezuelan Troupial, "Blue Crowned" Motmot, Andean Cock-of-the-Rock, Green Aracari, Black-Necked Stilt, American Avocet, Sunbittern, Puna Teal, Bahama Teal, Laysan Teal 2. Mission Gold-Eyed Treefrog 3. Bolivian Gray Titi, Red-Rumped Agouti 4. Golden-Lion Tamarin, Southern Three-Banded Armadillo Prairie Butterfly Tent 1. Poweshiek's Skipperling 2. Dakota Skipper Minnesota Trail 1. Spiny Softshell, Smooth Softshell, Blanding's Turtle, Painted Turtle. False Map Turtle, Ouchita Map Turtle, Northern Map Turtle, Western Painted Turtle, Wood Turtle, Common Snapping Turtle (Off-Exhibit for "Maintenance") 2. American Bullfrog 3. American Toad 4. Northern Leopard Frog, American Toad, Mudpuppy 5. Virginia Opossum, Striped Skunk 6. American Beaver 7. Lake Sturgeon, Longnose Gar, Walleye, Muskellunge, Largemouth Bass, Northern Pike, Bowfin, Bluegill, Black Crappie, Brook Trout, Channel Catfish, Bullhead 8. North American River Otter 9. North American Porcupine, Great-Horned Owl 10. Fisher 11. Coyote 12. Gray Wolf 13. Red Fox, Great Horned Owl 14. Wolverine 15. Bald Eagle 16. Cougar 17. Canadian Lynx 18. American Black Bear Russia's Grizzly Coast 1. Northern Sea Otter 2. Alaskan Brown Bear 3. Common Carp 4. Eurasian Wild Boar 5. Amur Leopard(3x) 6. Amur Tiger Northern Trail 1. Sichuan Takin 2. American Bison 3. Black-Tailed Prairie Dog 4. Plains Pronghorn 5. Przewalski's Horse 6. Bactrian Camel 7. Chinese Dhole 8. Przewalski's Horse 9. Moose 10. Woodland Caribou 11. Amur Tiger 12: Mucket, Fatmucket, Higgin's Eye Llama Trek (Exhibit closed, species list from earlier this year) 1. Domestic Llama 2. Domestic Guinea Pig Wells Fargo Family Farm (Exhibit closed, species list from earlier this year) 1. Domestic Horse (2x) 2. Domestic Sheep (2x) 3. Domestic Goat 4. Domestic Cattle (2x) 5. Domestic Pig 6. Domestic Chicken (2x) 7. Domestic Rabbit (2x) Mammals: 54 Birds: 75 Reptiles: 19 Amphibians: 6 Fish: 170 Invertebrates: 23 Domestics: 10 Total (On-Exhibit, not including domestics): 347
I had no idea the Prairie Butterfly Tent was ever open, I have never seen it open. How long has the turtle exhibit on the Minnesota Trail been empty? I'm pretty sure we can assume it's just closed at this point. Are there no longer exhibits at the Mussel Cabin or did you just forget to include it? Same question for the tamandua exhibit near the macaques. Are there no longer Magpie Shrikes, turacos, or imperial-pigeons free-roaming the Tropics Trail? Also, minor correction, the flamingoes are not free-flying, they are wing-clipped and restricted to the gibbon exhibit area.
The tent itself has never been open to my knowledge, but the butterflies are occasionally viewable from the back of the Tropics Trail in the warmer months. I honestly don't know why they have the Minnesota Turtles exhibit closed. If it were "under maintenence", then it probably wouldn't have taken three years to complete. They still have most of the turtle species, as they are still used as animal ambassadors. If I were guess, there is probably some internal problem with the exhibit (Broken pipe, cracked glass, etc.), which they just haven't gotten around to fixing yet. The Tamandua Exhibit was removed due to construction on the new Treetops Trail entrance. Concept art does depict a new exhibit for the Tamandua near the entrance, though time will tell if this comes to fruition. All non-waterfowl free-flight birds have been placed in or around the Asian Aviary after most of the Magpie Shrikes escaped a couple months back.
I remember it being open to guests, as I was in the tent in summer of 2018. The timeframe might be wrong, though. I haven't seen anything about tamanduas being included. Could you post this concept art in addition to anything else that is with it? I have a file of everything from the zoo about the Treetops Trail and would like to update it if its incomplete. Do you happen to know if the shrikes were ever caught besides that first one? I called the zoo about it, as I have unfortunately not been able to make it to the Minnesota Zoo recently, and the operator wasn't sure, which wasn't unexpected, but still disappointing. When was the last time you saw a Sri Lankan junglefowl? Did you spend a lot of time in the aviary, or did you basically just pass through it?
I believe that is what is being shown at 1:17 in this promotional video, although it's a little hard to tell. There hasn't been any word, so I would have to assume they have not been found as of yet, unfortunately . I actually saw them for the first time ever last august, being the last species in the aviary I had yet to see. As for your second question, I usually spend about twenty to thirty minutes on an average visit. I always try and look out for the Gaudy Red-Throated Barbet, which I have not seen since late 2020, although at this point, they may no longer be held at all .
They have been found, just not caught. Birders have reported them from various location across the Minneapolis Metro Area.
Are you sure they are Ptilinopus regina, or another species? I'm pretty sure P. regina isn't held in any North American collections, but could be wrong.
