It seems last year Walsrode got a plenty of South American birds from the Guianas, most likely they got them from Suriname, so far because I know there is a Instagram account called Frank Pinas from Suriname who exports native birds and others, and I think he exports birds legally. I hope they can get some Amazonian birds like the Wire-tailed manakin, Russet-crowned oropendola, Nocturnal curassow, Razor-billed curassow, Yellow-tufted dacnis and the Masked crimson tanager. As well as more Guianan birds like the Pompadour cotinga (they had the species before), Guianan red cotinga, and some more tinamou, cracid and tanager species. I also hope they can breed more species.
This might already have been posted here but I couldn't find anything. As many know, Walsrodes last kiwi passed away in 2020 which led to the kiwi house being completely closed all 2021. But apparently they received 1,2 Northern brown kiwis (Apteryx mantelli) from Frankfurt Zoo in 2021, so I guess the kiwi house will stay as a kiwi house, and maybe we will see the species on-show again already this year?
Well, at least there might be a theoretical chance to see them again Maybe the new ones will even show themselves more often...
Haha, you are right about that! It took me like 7 or more visits before I actually saw a kiwi at Walsrode And with my own eyes I just saw a dark blob move around in the very dark exhibit, but a trick we used was to hold up the phone camera (without flash of course) as you can see everything more enlightened in the screen - but this is the best photo I got: KIWI! Finally! Northern brown kiwi (Apteryx mantelli) - ZooChat The kiwi is also visible in this photo, the blob in the corner: Inside of Kiwi house (Nov 2nd, 2019) - ZooChat Hopefully the new ones are out more, so maybe I can get a bit better of a picture...
Weirdly, I had no problems spotting them on my one and only visit, but theoretically more sure-fire species such as Guiana Cock-of-the-Rock and the Greater Bird-of-Paradise were no-shows.
Hm, maybe I should have visited more often then, I've been to Walsrode four times in the past years and never saw a kiwi (ok, it was impossible during my last visit), even though I came back to the house at different times to check... The Guiana Cock-of-the-Rock also seemed quite elusive to me, on all visits I just saw a single one of them, even though they were signed at multiple places.
That is correct, their last individual passed away in 2020/2021 according to a zookeeper. Sadly the last individual in European zoos.
I wonder how many White-crested guans, Horned guans, Black-throated piping guans and Crestless curassows do they have?
White-crested guan: At least 2, according to ZTL Horned Guan: 1 Black-throated piping guan (Pipile jacutinga?) & Crestless curassow: Don't know, sorry
Then the Horned guan in Walsrode should have been the only bird in Europe. If someday it died then Europeans will fly far away to USA and Mexico to see them. St Louis and DWA are the only American holders outside their native range, and they bred them. I don't appreciate getting them from the wild because they are endangered and quite narrow-ranged. There is some Mexican zoos who have this species.
To see the Horned Guan was my main reason for flying from Australia to visit Walsrode, although I saw so many spectacular species whilst I was there
For African and Asian species, I would like to say they should have more sandgrouse, bustard, weaver, rail, sunbird, kingfisher, babbler, thrush, starling, roller, flycatcher, plover, barbet, cuckoo, warbler, white-eye, bulbul, broadbill and pitta species.
Wattle-eye, Grey-headed bristlebills and Yellow-throated greenbuls may be cool for Walsrode's collection. They are all kept in aviculture, but what I can only found a few information about them being in aviculture, such as the pictures of the bristlebill and greenbul specimens kept by a late bird breeder in France, and the wattle-eye in a bird expo in Netherlands, and in a post in a site who sells animals. All of them were once kept in European zoos.
Walsrode's Giant couas are formerly breeding, according to ZTL Here are the data of the Giant couas in Walsrode: formerly breeding World first breeding 2007 - Inventory 06/25/2008: 3,1,2 - Stock at the end of 2020: 2.0.0 I hope if they can breed more in the future?
