Shorebirds, Gulls, and Terns in North America

I can now 100% confirm that yes, Bay Beach's Sterna tern is indeed Common.

 

Tracy Aviary has Long-billed Curlew

 

I just learned that Bay Beach's Franklin's Gull passed away last April.

 

SDZ keeps Wattled Jacana in their new Hummingbird Habitat.

 

Bronx keeps a trio of Grey Gull now.

~Thylo

 

Blank Park keeps Bush Thick-Knee, Egyptian Plover, and Masked Lapwing.

 

Safari North Wildlife Park keeps Masked Lapwing
Minnesota Zoo keeps American Avocet
Hemker Park & Zoo keeps Gray Gull & Wattled Lapwing

 

Thick-knees

Burhinus

Senegal Thick-knee (1 holder)

Sylvan Heights Bird Park

Spotted Thick-Knee (Cape Thick-Knee) (21 holders)

Audubon
Birmingham
Boise
Central Florida
Chehaw Park
Fresno Chaffee
Idaho Falls
Jacksonville
Lincoln Park
Living Desert
Los Angeles
Micke Grove
Milwaukee
National Aviary
Oklahoma City
Omaha
Riverbanks
Safari Niagara
Safari West
Seneca Park
St. Louis
Zoo Atlanta

Double-striped Thick-Knee (4 holders)

Jacksonville
Toledo
Toronto
Tulsa

Peruvian Thick-Knee (6 holders)

Assiniboine Park
Birmingham
Gladys Porter
Miller Park
San Antonio
Sedgwick County

Bush Thick-Knee (1 holder)

Blank Park


Egyptian Plover - Pluvianus (6 holders)

Blank Park
Milwaukee
Philadelphia
San Diego
Sylvan Heights Bird Park
Toledo


Oystercatchers

Haematopus

Black Oystercatcher (6 holders)

Alaska Sealife Center
Bronx
Living Coast Discovery Center
Monterey Bay Aquarium
Oregon Coast Aquarium
Seattle Aquarium

American Oystercatcher (4 holders)

Jacksonville
Milwaukee
Save Our Seabirds
Sylvan Heights Bird Park

Eurasian Oystercatcher (2 holders)

Bronx
Central Park


Avocets, Stilts

Recurvirostra

Pied Avocet (4 holders)

Bronx
Central Park
Livingston Ripley Waterfowl Conservancy
Sylvan Heights Bird Park

American Avocet (6 holders)

Aquarium of the Pacific
Lincoln Park
Milwaukee
Minnesota
Monterey Bay Aquarium
San Antonio


Himantopus

Black-necked Stilt (21 holders)

Aquarium of the Pacific
Busch Gardens Tampa
Cameron Park
Fort Worth
Fresno Chaffee
Happy Hollow
Henry Vilas
Jackson
Lincoln Park
Los Angeles
Louisville
Milwaukee
Minnesota
Monterey Bay Aquarium
N.E.W.
Phoenix
Riverbanks
San Antonio
Sylvan Heights Bird Park
Tracy Aviary
Tulsa


Plovers

Pluvialis

Black-bellied Plover (4 holders)

Aquarium of the Pacific
Flint RiverQuarium
Livingston Ripley Waterfowl Conservancy
Monterey Bay Aquarium

Pacific Golden-Plover (1 holder)

Honolulu

American Golden-Plover (1 holder)

Columbus


Charadrius

Semipalmated Plover (1 holder)

Monterey Bay Aquarium

Wilson’s Plover (1 holder)

Zoo Tampa

Killdeer (7 holders)

Aquarium of the Pacific
Bay Beach Wildlife Sanctuary
Columbus
Monterey Bay Aquarium
Oklahoma City
Seattle Aquarium
Sylvan Heights Bird Park

Piping Plover (1 holder)

Lincoln Park

Snowy Plover (3 holders)

Aquarium of the Pacific
Monterey Bay Aquarium
Seattle Aquarium


Vanellus

Long-toed Lapwing (2 holders)

San Diego Zoo Safari Park
Sylvan Heights Bird Park

Blacksmith Lapwing (6 holders)

Birmingham
Honolulu
Milwaukee
Omaha
St. Louis
Sylvan Heights Bird Park

Spur-winged Lapwing (20 holders)

Bronx
Cincinnati
Dallas
Detroit
Idaho Falls
Living Desert
Livingston Ripley Waterfowl Conservancy
Los Angeles
Maryland
Minnesota
Oregon
Sacramento
Safari West
San Antonio
San Diego Zoo Safari Park
Sylvan Heights Bird Park
Toledo
Tulsa
Woodland Park
Zoo Miami

White-headed Lapwing (1 holder)

National Aviary

Wattled Lapwing (4 holders)

Hemker
San Diego
San Diego Zoo Safari Park
Sylvan Heights Bird Park

Masked Lapwing (32 holders)

Audubon
Birmingham
Blank Park
Brevard
Bronx
Busch Gardens Tampa
Cincinnati
Columbus
El Paso
Fort Wayne
Lincoln Park
Livingston Ripley Waterfowl Conservancy
Los Angeles
Milwaukee
National Aquarium
North Carolina
Oklahoma City
Omaha
Riverbanks
Safari North Wildlife Park
Salisbury
San Antonio
San Diego
Sedgwick County
Sylvan Heights Bird Park
Toledo
Tracy Aviary
Wildwood Wildlife Park
Woodland Park
Zoo Atlanta
Zoo Miami
Zoo Tampa

Southern Lapwing (5 holders)

Abilene
Buttonwood Park
Cincinnati
Sylvan Heights Bird Park


Painted-snipe

Rostratula

Greater Painted-snipe (1 holder)

Pinola Aviary


Jacanas

Jacana

Wattled Jacana (3 holders)

Dallas World Aquarium
San Diego
Shedd Aquarium


Actophilornis

African Jacana (5-8 holders)

Cleveland? (listed as Wattled, but photo is African)
Disney’s Animal Kingdom
Houston
National Aviary
Omaha?
Pinola Conservancy
San Diego?
Sylvan Heights Bird Park


Sandpipers, Snipes, Phalaropes

Numenius

Long-billed Curlew (2 holders)

Seattle Aquarium
Tracy Aviary


Limosa

Marbled Godwit (1 holder)

Monterey Bay Aquarium


Arenaria

Ruddy Turnstone (3 holders)

Cape May
Monterey Bay Aquarium
National (supposedly, when bird house reopens)


Calidris

Red Knot (2 holders)

Monterey Bay Aquarium
National Zoo (not just yet, or bts)

Ruff (1 holder)

Sylvan Heights Bird Park

Sanderling (2 holders)

Monterey Bay Aquarium
National Zoo (not yet, or bts)

Dunlin (1 holder)

Monterey Bay Aquarium

Least Sandpiper (2 holders)

Monterey Bay Aquarium
New England Aquarium

Western Sandpiper (1 holder)

Monterey Bay Aquarium

Semipalmated Sandpiper (1 holder)

New England Aquarium


Limnodromus

Short-billed Dowitcher (1 holder)

Aquarium of the Pacific


Phalaropus

Red-necked Phalarope (1 holder)

Monterey Bay Aquarium

Red Phalarope (1 holder)

Monterey Bay Aquarium


Tringa

Willet (2 holders)

Aquarium of the Pacific
Sylvan Heights Bird Park


Coursers & Pratincoles

Glareola

Collared Pratincole (2 holders)

Pinola Aviary
San Diego


Gulls, Terns, Skimmers

Rynchops

Black Skimmer (any holders?)

Bronx, Buttonwood Park, New England Aquarium recently but no longer.


Chroicocephalus

Bonaparte’s Gull (2 holders)

Bay Beach Wildlife Sanctuary
Santa Barbara


Leucophaeus

Silver Gull (3 holders)

Kansas City
National Aviary
Sunset

Gray Gull (5 holders)

Bronx
Brookfield
Hemker
Oregon
Sedgwick County

Franklin’s Gull (3 holders)

Abilene
Kansas Wildlife Exhibit
Tracy Aviary

Laughing Gull (7 holders)

Albuquerque Aquarium
Cameron Park
Dallas
Fort Worth
Honolulu
Houston
Three Palms


Larus

Ring-billed Gull (5 holders)

Abilene
Cincinnati
San Antonio
Tulsa
Willowbrook Wildlife Center

American Herring Gull (1 holder)

Cameron Park

Great Black-backed Gull (1 holder)

Toledo


Hydroprogne

Caspian Tern (3-4 holders)

Bay Beach Wildlife Sanctuary
Denver Aquarium
Oklahoma City?
Tracy Aviary


Larosterna

Inca Tern (25 holders)

Assiniboine Park
Boise
Bronx
Brookfield
Cameron Park
Cincinnati
El Paso
Fresno Chaffee
Great Plains
Jacksonville
Lincoln Park
Louisville
Milwaukee
National Aviary
Omaha
Oregon
Rosamond Gifford
San Antonio
San Diego
Santa Barbara
Sedgwick County
Stone
Sylvan Heights Bird Park
Tulsa
Zoo Boise
Zoo Tampa


Sterna

Common Tern (2-3 holders?)

Bay Beach Wildlife Sanctuary
Bronx
New England Aquarium?


Thalasseus

Sandwich Tern (1 holder)

Phillip and Patricia Frost Museum of Science

Royal Tern (2 holders)

Phillip and Patricia Frost Museum of Science
Sylvan Heights Bird Park


Skuas and Jaegers

Stercorarius

Pomarine Jaeger (1 holder)

Busch Wildlife Sanctuary

 

Busch Gardens Williamsburg has Busch Gardens Williamsburg

 

You don't say!

 

I meant to write Bush stone curlew

 

Pinola should have Pied Avocet as well.

New England Aquarium I believe has Piping Plover.

San Diego has African Jacana, they do not have pratincole (not on-exhibit anyway).

~Thylo

 

Great, good to know. They had pratincole in '17 into '18, did you see it then?

 

Collared Pratincole - ZooChat
Indeed I did

As far as I can tell, the zoo received two from Pinola Aviary at the end of 2017 for the Africa Rocks Aviary. They also received painted-snipe from them but these never made it on-exhibit before passing. I did see one pratincole at the zoo in January 2018 and I don't know how long they lasted after that, but when I visited this past August there was no sign of them.

~Thylo

 

Nice!

Interesting information, guess we got lucky seeing the pratincoles then! Pity the painted snipes never made it on display.

 

I'm not sure Bay Beach still has Common Tern. That one should probably have a question mark after it.

There are no zoos permanently keeping Great Lakes Piping Plover, that includes Lincoln Park. Lincoln Park, NEW, Toledo, and one other facility I do not know all regularly take in rescues but do not keep any permanently.

 

Laura Quinn wild bird sanctuary keeps laughing gull, royal tern, and black necked stilt

 

DAK keeps Masked Lapwing.

 

Hemker Park & Zoo has Laughing Gull.

 

Doesn't seem like St. Louis Zoo has blacksmith lapwing anymore but they do have spur-winged lapwing now.