Non-Crane Gruiformes in North American Zoos

As of January 2022, both are no longer at Fresno Chaffee.

I plan to return back in a couple of weeks. I became a member there so I can check as often as my schedule will allow.

I can confirm that San Diego Zoo does have the black crake (from my visit 12/11/2021).

 

The wood-rails were already confirmed gone.
@ChaffeeZooFan do you know anything on the status of the Guam Rails?

 

Last I visited was the 5th of January 2022 and there were no Guam Rails on exhibit, but I don't know much as far as the behind the scenes.

@Adventuredl may be a better source as I no longer live in the Fresno area (though I still visit often)

 

Fresno no longer holds Guam Rails, the last one was sent out a couple years ago.

 

Noting it here so I don't forget - Tucson Petting Zoo keeps Gray-headed Swamphen.

 

I never saw a Galinule at Philadelphia last time I was in their Bird House.

 

Both San Diego parks now hold this species.

Indeed not on exhibit at San Diego.

You can remove these three listings.

 

As mentioned by @Neil chace on the Roger Williams Park Zoo News 2022 thread, the facility now has giant wood rail in the Faces of the Rainforest building.

 

Update time! @birdsandbats gave me the go-ahead to roll out some updates for his threads, but he's still involved and will probably get a few rolled out himself before I get through them all. So don't worry, I'm not hijacking - I had full permission.
I've maintained his formatting for clarity's sake, apart from adding onshow/offshow to Guam Rail.

Gray-Winged Trumpeter (15 holders)

Brights Zoo
Bronx Zoo
Dallas World Aquarium
Fort Worth Zoo
Honolulu Zoo
Houston Zoo
Memphis Zoo
Moody Gardens
Saint Louis Zoo
San Antonio Zoo
San Diego Zoo
San Diego Zoo Safari Park
Shell Factory & Nature Center
Woodland Park Zoo
Zootastic Park

Guam Rail (12 holders)

Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden
Fresno Chaffee Zoo? (both on and offshow?)
Guam Zoo
Lincoln Park Zoo (onshow)
National Aviary
Philadelphia Zoo (onshow)
Racine Zoo (onshow)
San Antonio Zoo (onshow?)
San Diego Zoo (offshow)
Santa Fe Teaching Zoo (offshow)
Sedgwick County Zoo (onshow)
Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute (offshow)

Buff-Banded Rail (1 holder)

Zoo Miami

Ridgway's Rail (1 holder)

Living Coast Discovery Center (levipes)

African Crake (1 holder)

Pinola Conservancy

Gray-Necked Wood Rail (5 holders)

Bronx Zoo
Omaha's Henry Doorly Zoo & Aquarium
Topeka Zoo
Toronto Zoo
Tracy Aviary

Giant Wood Rail (4 holders)

Assiniboine Park Zoo
Bronx Zoo
Roger Williams Park Zoo
Special Memories Zoo

Black Crake (15-20 holders)

Bronx Zoo
Cape May County Park & Zoo?
Columbus Zoo and Aquarium
Detroit Zoo
Disney's Animal Kingdom® Park
Erie Zoo?
Franklin Park Zoo
Henry Vilas Zoo
Memphis Zoo?
National Aviary
Omaha’s Henry Doorly Zoo and & Aquarium
Oregon Zoo?
Pinola Conservancy
Reid Park Zoo?
San Diego Zoo
Sedgwick County Zoo
Sylvan Heights Bird Park
Toledo Zoo
Topeka Zoo
Toronto Zoo

Sora (3 holders)

Buttonwood Park Zoo
Columbus Zoo & Aquarium
Philadelphia Zoo

Gray-Headed Swamphen (4 holders)

Los Angeles Zoo & Botanical Gardens
Tuscon Petting Zoo
Wildlife World Zoo & Aquarium
ZooTampa at Lowry Park

Allen's Gallinule (4 holders)

Oregon Zoo
Philadelphia Zoo
Pinola Conservancy
San Antonio Zoo

Purple Gallinule (3 holders)

Audubon Zoo
Phoenix Zoo
Toronto Zoo

Lesser Moorhen (1 holder)

Pinola Conservancy

European Moorhen (1 holder)

Sylvan Heights Bird Park

Common Gallinule (5 holders)

Gladys Porter Zoo
Milwaukee County Zoo
Patricia and Phillip Frost Museum of Science
Pinola Conservancy
Saint Louis Zoo

American Coot (2 holders)

Bay Beach Wildlife Sanctuary
California Living Museum

 

Still kept offshow, no longer on display.

Never seen this species anywhere in the zoo, signed or otherwise.

This one is tricky; CALM's waterbird area has been blocked off for at least a year now, and it's unclear to me whether this is now a permanent arrangement.

 

San Antonio Zoo and Zoo Miami have Grey-Headed Swamphen

Oklahoma City Zoo has American Coot

San Antonio Zoo doesn't have Guam Rail on display anymore, not sure if they are bts

Miami has signage for Grey-Necked Wood Rail but I didn't see it so can't confirm it is still there.

 

Bronx has had Guam Rail for a couple years now, and has bred the species

SDZSP has Ridgway's Rail bts as well. @Coelacanth18 what are in the two aviaries dedicated to the rails at Living Coasts? They had about 7 birds on-exhibit when I was there in 2021.

~Thylo

 

Bts then, they have them to my knowledge.

Somehow left Bronx off - I knew they had them too. Always something with these lists!

 

Smithsonian's National Zoo has a Clapper Rail in their bird house.

 

I can confirm that Cincinnati's Guam Rails are onshow (and in a free-flight room, does anywhere else do this?). Racine's, however, are not onshow anymore. Brookfield also keeps them bts.

Still a Special Memories listing under Giant Wood Rail. I must say that this is probably the most profound loss in the closure of that facility. It was not a good zoo, but it had it's moments, and the individual Giant Wood Rail they kept was a very active animal who loved to call out to visitors. I wish more zoos could keep this fun species.

Bay Beach no longer exhibits American Coot. This species is probably gone from the facility but Bay Beach has a habit of taking birds off-exhibit for long periods of time and then they end up going back on exhibit later, so it is possible the coot is still around.

 

I've seen Giant Wood-Rail listed a number of times on exotic private bird keeping pages so it's clearly a species present in the US aviculture trade. I do wish more zoos would exhibit them.

~Thylo

 

Black Oystercatcher and Black-crowned Night Heron.

 

Unless they recently reacquired them, the Fresno Chaffee Zoo no longer holds Guam Rails.
Caldwell Zoo had grey winged trumpeters, but with the South American construction I’m not sure if they are still there behind the scenes.

 

The Erie Zoo in Pennsylvania still holds black crake, as according to this article.

Erie Zoo aims to add these new animals in 2024