San Diego Zoo San Diego Zoo Complete Species List

LOST FOREST PT 4

Australasian Aviaries

• Southern Sulawesi Hornbill
• Horned Parakeet
• Superb Bird of Paradise, Blue Crowned Pigeon, Wompoo Fruit Dove
• Chestnut Breasted Malkoha, Mountain Peacock Pheasant
• Chestnut Backed Thrush, Malayan Long Tailed Parakeet, White Eared Bulbul
• Blue Crowned Pigeon, Superb Bird of Paradise, Wompoo Fruit Dove
• Wrinkled Hornbill
• Black Bulbul, Crested Wood Partridge
• Collared Lory, White Throated Ground Dove
• Mount Goliath Lorikeet
• Red Tailed Black Cockatoo
• Blue Crowned Hanging Parrot
• Mindanao Bleeding Heart Dove, Chinese Hwamei, Grosbeak Starling, Purple Tailed Imperial Pigeon
• Hooded Pitta, Mariana Fruit Dove, Fairy Bluebird, Red Billed Leiothrix, Tricolored Parrotfinch
• Green Naped Pheasant Pigeon, Beautiful Fruit Dove, Blue Crowned Lorikeet
• Orange Bellied Leafbird, Red Billed Leiothrix, Black Chinned Fruit Dove
• Blue Crowned Laughingthrush
• Mindanao Lorikeet
• Black Naped Fruit Dove, Scarlet Faced Liocichla
• Guam Kingfisher
• 4 Connected Aviaries: Raggiana Bird of Paradise

 

Really liking this thread, it gives you a good idea of just how diverse the collection really is. It is nice to see that they still display such a magnificent variety of birds, many of which are very rare in US zoos these days.

 

NORTHERN FRONTIER

Horn & Hoof Mesa (What's left of it)

• Very Large Yard: Grevy's Zebra, Eastern Giant Eland, Southern Gerenuk
• Very Large Yard: Lesser Kudu, Speke's Gazelle
• Small Yard: Bontebok
• Small Yard: Southern Gerenuk
• Small Yard: Eastern Yellow Backed Duiker
• Small Yard: Chacoan Peccary
• Small Yard Underneath Skyfari: Giant Anteater, Patagonian Mara
• Mountain Lion Enclosure: Mountain Lion
• Small Yard: Maned Wolf

Row of Aviaries

• White Rumped Shama, Tongan Scrubfowl, Collared Imperial Pigeon
• White Crowned Shrike, Himalayan Monal, Crested Coua
• Black Throated Laghingthrush, Jambu Fruit Dove, Chestnut Bellied Hill Partridge
• Purple Tailed Imperial Pigeon, Scarlet Faced Liocichla, Blyth's Trapogan
• Fire Tufted Barbet, Green Naped Pheasant Pigeon
• Chinese Hwamei, Orange Bellied Fruit Dove, Maleo
• White Collared Kingfisher, Edward's Pheasant
• Black Naped Fruit Dove, White Rumped Shama, Blue Crowned Laughingthrush, Mountain Peacock Pheasant

Polar Bear Plunge

• Polar Bear Habitat: Polar Bear
• Small Enclosure: Arctic Fox
• Hillside Yard: Siberian Reindeer
• Small Enclosure: Raccoon
• Small Pond: Gadwall, Canvasback, Eurasian Wigeon, Ring Necked Duck, Red Breasted Goose, Northern Shoveler, Redhead
• Small Pond: Emperor Goose, Mallard, Cinnamon Teal, Ruddy Duck, Northern Pintail, Wood Duck
• Walkthrough Marsh Aviary: Smew, Bufflehead, European Goldfinch, American Robin, Black Caped Chickadee, Bearded Parrotbill, Red Billed Leiothrix, Harlequin Duck, Baer's Pochard

 

PANDA CANYON (the best time to visit the Pandas is at dusk, the lines are gone and almost nobody is walking through the habitat.)

Older Waterfowl Exhibits

• Waterfowl Habitat: Great White Pelican, Common Shelduck, White Faced Whistling Duck, White Breasted Cormorant, African Comb Duck
• Waterfowl Habitat: African Comb Duck, Common Shelduck, White Breasted Cormorant, Great White Pelican, Black Spur Winged Goose, White Faced Whistling Duck
• Waterfowl Habitat Behind Bus Road: Southern Screamer

Leopards

• 4 Connected Enclosures: Snow Leopard, Amur Leopard

Panda Trek

• Rocky Habitat: Sichuan Takin
• Small Yard: Red Panda
• Glass Enclosed Exhibit: Mang Mountain Pit Viper
• 2 Large Yards: Giant Panda

 

This aviary had a Ruff Sandpiper in it when I was there in late December last year, no longer?

 

There was no signage for Ruff Sandpipers, but I will look over my photos to see if one was present.

 

I believe it was signed when I was there, if no longer it may not be around now.

 

There is an exhibit across from the Fennec fox, behind some bushes, that used to have Squirrel monkeys that now has 3 Canadian Lynx cubs.

 

I did take notice of this enclosure, and I saw the one of the Lynx, but it was under renovation and had a badly placed fence in front of it (the reason why I could see what was held in the enclosure.) So I didn't list it.

 

ELEPHANT ODYSSEY

Elephant Odyssey Exhibits

• Small Yard: Linne's Two Toed Sloth, Kirk's Dik Dik
• Netted Enclosure: African Lion
• Netted Enclosure: Jaguar
• Yard with Pool: Baird's Tapir, Capybara, Guanaco
• Small Yard: Llama, Guanaco, Baird's Tapir, Capybara
• Small Enclosure Behind Bus Road: Rock Hyrax
• Netted Enclosure: Secretary Bird, Black Billed Magpie

Small Insect Terrariums

• Beetle (Unsigned)
• Spiny Stick Insect
• Mexican Fireleg Tarantula
• Rhinoceros Beetle

More Elephant Odyssey Exhibits

• Stream Habitat: Western Fence Lizard, Pacific Chorus Frog, Coast Range Newt, Side Blotched Lizard, California Toad, Pacific Pond Turtle, Western Skink
• Elephant Habitat: African Bush Elephant, Asian Elephant
• Large Yard: Pronghorn, Dromedary Camel
• Small Paddock: Domestic Horse, Burro
• Snake Exhibit: Red Diamond Rattlesnake, Southwestern Speckled Rattlesnake, Southern Pacific Rattlesnake
• Condor Exhibit: California Condor

 

Ok, the fence was placed there to help the lynx acclimate to their new exhibit. It has been removed.

 

AFRICA ROCKS

Older Africa Rocks Exhibits (Kopje)

• Small Enclosure: Yellow Spotted Rock Hyrax
• Meerkat Exhibit: Slender Tailed Meerkat
• Small Aviary: Trumpeter Hornbill
• Small Rocky Exhibit: Serval
• Small Aviary: Green Woodhoopoe, Taveta Golden Weaver, Namaqua Dove, Madagascar Partridge
• Kopje Habitat: Klipspringer, Rock Hyrax, Dwarf Mongoose
• Large Aviary: Bateleur Eagle

Ethiopian Highlands

• Baboon Exhibit: Hamadryas Baboon
• Baboon Exhibit: Gelada, Nubian Ibex

Acacia Woodland

• African Aviary: Golden Breasted Bunting, Purple Grenadier, Red Cheeked Cordon Bleu, Yellow Crowned Bishop, Collared Pratincole, White Fronted Bee Eater, Stone Partridge, Yellow Mantled Widowbird, Black Headed Weaver, Pin Tailed Whydah, Fischer's Lovebird, Splendid Sunbird, Namaqua Dove, Common Waxbill, Blue Headed Dove, Zebra Waxbill, Emerald Spotted Wood Dove, Golden Breasted Starling, African Silverbill, Village Indigobird, Violet Backed Starling, White Headed Buffalo Weaver, Snowy Crowned Robin Chat, White Bellied Go Away Bird, Long Tailed Paradise Whydah, Red Billed Firefinch, Magpie Mannikin, African Pygmy Goose
• Small Fish Exhibit Inside Aviary: Gorongosa Girdled Lizard, Congo Tetra, Leopard Fish, Cuckoo Catfish, Lemon Cichlid
• Leopard Exhibit: Amur Leopard
• Monkey Exhibit: Vervet Monkey

Madagascar Forest

• Lemur Exhibits: Blue Eyed Black Lemur, Red Ruffed Lemur, Red Collared Lemur, Coquerel's Sifaka, Ring Tailed Lemur
• Fossa Exhibit: Fossa
• Honey Badger Exhibit: Fossa (There was no signage for Honey Badgers, and there were 2 fossa in the second netted enclosure near the lemurs)

West African Forest

• Crocodile Exhibit: West African Dwarf Crocodile, Madagascar Big Headed Turtle, West African Mud Turtle

Cape Fynbos

• Penguin Exhibit: African Penguin, Leopard Shark, Fish (Unsigned)

 

ASIAN PASSAGE

Sun Bear Forest

• Netted Enclosure: Red Cheeked Gibbon
• Small Aviary: White Rumped Shama, Golden Crested Myna, Chinese Hwamei, Orange Bellied Leafbird, Grey Peacock Pheasant
• Sun Bear Exhibit: Bornean Sun Bear
• Monkey Exhibit: Francois Langur

Bear Grottos/Monkeys

• Bear Grotto: Andean Bear
• Bear Grotto: Andean Bear
• Monkey Exhibit: Aye Aye
• Monkey Exhibit: Aye Aye
• Monkey Exhibit: Empty
• Monkey Exhibit: Empty
• Bear Grotto: North American Grizzly Bear
• Bear Grotto: North American Grizzly Bear
• Small Grotto: African Clawless Otter
• Bear Grotto: Empty
• Bear Grotto: Bornean Sun Bear

 

URBAN JUNGLE

Urban Jungle Exhibits

• Rhino Exhibit: Greater One Horned Rhinoceros
• Long Yard: South African Cheetah
• Small Enclosure: Bornean Binturong
• Small Enclosure: Cape Porcupine
• Small Enclosure: Empty
• Small Yard: Red River Hog
• Grassy Yard: Caribbean Flamingo
• Small Enclosure: Southern Ground Hornbill
• Small Yard: Grant's Zebra, Miniature Mediterranean Donkey, Red Kangaroo
• Small Yard: Masai Giraffe, Nubian Soemmerring's Gazelle

 

OUTBACK

Koalas

• Koala Exhibits: Parma Wallaby, Koala
• Small Aviary: Palm Cockatoo

More Outback Exhibits

• 4 Small Yards: Tasmanian Devil
• Small Yard: Brush Tailed Bettong
• Aviary: Fawn Breasted Bowerbird, Wonga Pigeon, Metallic Starling, Diamond Dove, White Breasted Woodswallow, Dollarbird, Masked Lapwing, Wompoo Fruit Dove, Australian King Parrot
• Aviary: Laughing Kookaburra, Blue Faced Honeyeater, Wonga Pigeon, Grey Capped Emerald Dove, Diamond Firetail, Double Barred Finch, Diamond Dove, Gouldian Finch, Long Tailed Grass Finch, Wompoo Fruit Dove, Scarlet Chested Parrot, Plum Headed Finch, Squatter Pigeon, Star Finch

 

LOST FOREST PT 5

Scripps Aviary and Nearby Exhibits

• Scripps Aviary: Western Long Tailed Hornbill, Crested Coua, Hamerkop, Great Blue Turaco, Southern Bald Ibis, African Spoonbill, African Openbill Stork, Green Woodhoopoe, African Thrush, White Vented Bulbul, Violet Backed Starling, Emerald Starling, Superb Starling, Purple Glossy Starling, Golden Breasted Starling, White Headed Lapwings, Taveta Golden Weaver, Reichenow's Weaver, Black Crake, Magpie Shrike, African Golden Oriole, Blue Eared Glossy Starling, Northern Red Bishop, White Headed Buffalo Weaver, Blue Naped Mousebird, Blue Bellied Roller, White Crowned Robin Chat, Bruce's Green Pigeon, African Olive Pigeon, African Grey Parrot, Tambourine Dove, Senegal Laughing Dove, Blue Headed Wood Dove, White Bellied Go Away Bird, Yellow Necked Francolin, African Darter, Maccoa Duck, Ferruginous Duck, White Faced Whistling Duck
• Small Aviary: Black Casqued Hornbill
• Small Aviary: African Golden Oriole, Magpie Shrike, Madagascar Crested Ibis, Emerald Starling, Bearded Barbet

This concludes my list of species for San Diego Zoo.

(Coming Soon: Oakland Zoo Complete Species List. I know that I already did a list a while back, but I never finished it. The new list will be made in November.)

 

Something I noticed going through it again, there's no mention of Saddle-billed Stork. I saw one in the waterfowl pond back by Eagle Trail in late December last year, was it not signed or seen? There's a Saddlebill on the map on that pond.

 

Scripps also has the red-and-yellow barbet and adamawa turtle dove

 

There was no signage, and I did not see one, so my guess is that there isn't one anymore.

Thank you for that info, it was getting dark when I went into the aviary and I hadn't been on all the levels, so I may have missed a sign.

 

Black billed magpie seems like an odd choice. Are they representative of an extinct species there? Are the elephant species rotated or is it a mixed exhibit? The concept of that exhibit is interesting, for as much hate as it gets. It just seems that there are some odd species choices in it. Are the pronghorn of the Peninsular variety? Didn't they used to also have bison in this exhibit?