This is what Omaha holds as of 10/21/2018. Named species all have signage. I've also noted unsigned species when I spotted them, mostly birds and I'm not good at guessing those species. This is sorted by exhibit, in order of appearance. I've combined animals in the same exhibit to make this less long. I also have these lists by type if anyone wants that posted. Not included: Berniece Grewcock Butterfly and Insect Pavilion - I was tired and I'm not that interested in them. It contains 35-40 species. Suzanne and Walter Scott Aquarium - I did go through the aquarium and can name quite a few species, particularly the sharks, but it was FILLED with screaming children and was a really unpleasant experience. Much of the species signage is above tanks, as well, on screens that rotate between names, so not easy for my to photograph. Asian Highlands next segment opens Spring 2019 Red Panda White-naped Crane Tufted Deer Pere David's Deer, Indian One-horned Rhino African Grasslands Meerkat, Klipspringer White-throated Monitor (not on exhibit - weather) Rock Hyrax Southern White Rhino Impala, Giraffe, Ostrich, White Stork African Elephant, Plains Zebra African Pygmy Goat Cheetah African Lion Sable Antelope Bongo, Secretary bird (no signage) African Spurred Tortoise (not on exhibit - weather) (Website mentions Kenya Crested Guinea Fowl and Spur-winged Geese, saw no signage for these) Desert Dome African Wild Cat (2 females) Blue Bellied Roller Cape Thick-Knee Free flight birds: Cut-throat Finch, Gambel's Quail, Hooded Oriole, Lilac-breasted Roller, Orange-bishop Weaver, Red-bishop Weaver, Scott's Oriole, Speckled Mousebird, White-winged Dove, Yellow-crowned Bishop Blacksmith Plover, Chesnut Weaver, Golden-breasted Starling Klipspringer, Meerkat Helmeted Marsh Terrapin, Nile Soft-shell Turtle, unnamed blue fish with black stripes (also in front of mongoose) Bat-eared Fox Dwarf Mongoose Hottentot Teal Puff Adder Cape Cobra Cape Coral Cobra Angolan Python Red-billed Hornbill Black Mamba, 2 exhibits next to each other Brown Tree Snake, Common Death Adder Giant Plated Lizard Frilled Dragon, Northern Blue-tongued Skink Centralian Python Rough-scaled Death Adder King Brown Collett's Snake Woma Python Taipan (Inland) Spiny-tailed Monitor Perentie Kookaburra, Masked Lapwing, Tawny Frogmouth Yellow-footed Rock Wallaby Cunningham's Skink Bearded Dragon Collared Peccary Ocelot Burrowing Owl Bobcat Benson's Quail, Burrowing Owl, Roadrunner Baja Blue Rock Lizard, Mexican Spiny-tailed Iguana Baja Blue Rock Lizard, Common Chuckwalla, Common Collared Lizard, Giant Mexican Horned Lizard Western Diamond-backed Rattlesnake (I counted 16 of them) Mountain Quail Sonoran Box Turtle, Spiny-tailed Iguana Turkey Vulture Swift Fox Arizona Black Rattlesnake Mojave Rattlesnake Cantil Viper Beaded Lizard Santa Catalina Island Rattlesnake Mottled Rock Rattlesnake Great Basin Rattlesnake Sidewinder Redtail Splitfin Coati Expedition Madagascar Black Lemur, Madagascar Big Headed Turtle Strawcolored Fruit Bat Mongoose Lemur Aye-Aye Giant Jumping Rat, Grey Mouse Lemur Lesser Vasa Parrot Radiated Tortoise, Ring-tailed Lemur (on sign but not present: Common Brown Lemur, Mongoose Lemur, Red-collared Brown Lemur) Flat-tailed Tortoise, Giant Day Gecko, Oustalet's Chameleon, Plated Lizard, Spiny-tailed Iguana Baron's Mantella, Beautiful Mantella, Blue-legged Mantella, Climbing Mantella Madagascar Ground Boa, Malagasy Hognose Snake Red Ruffed Lemur Cheke's Day Gecko, Madagascar Button Quail, Panther Chameleon, Tomato Frog Fossa (outside) Gorilla Valley Salvadori's Weaver Northern Tree Shrew Colobus Monkey Sulawesi Crested Black Macaque Western Lowland Gorilla, Colobus Monkey (indoors) Western Lowland Gorilla, several outdoor exhibits, viewed from indoors Angolan Colobus, Blue Monkey, Bush Hyrax, Rock Hyrax Abyssinian Ground Hornbill, West African Crowned Crane, Yellow-backed Duiker, Unnamed brown goose species Kingdoms of the Night Naked Mole Rat Fossa Greater Bushbaby, Springhaas Amazon Milky Tree Frog, Emerald Tree Boa, Green Tree Python, Magnificent Tree Frog Bushy-tailed Jird Amazon Tree Boa, Jamaican Boa Mexican Leaf Frog Schneider's Dwarf Caiman Haitian Boa Aardvark, Brushtail Porcupine, Greater Bushbaby, Hoffman's Two-toed Sloth, Potto, Springhaas Short-tailed Fruit Bat Mexican Blind Cavefish Amethystine Python Banded Knob-tailed Gecko Douroucouli, Hoffman's Two-toed Sloth, Nine-banded Armadillo, Prehensile-tailed Porcupine, Screaming Hairy Armadillo, St. Vincent Agouti, Three-banded Armadillo Short-beaked Echidna, Tamar Wallaby Fly River Turtle, Krefft's River Turtle, Northern Australian Snake-necked Turtle, Pink-bellied Side-necked Turtle Johnson's Crocodile Vampire Bat Ruwenzori Long-haired Fruit Bat Spear-nosed Bat Greater Bulldog Bat Egyptian Fruit Bat Little Golden-mantled Fruit Bat Giant Indian Fruit Bat Cope's Grey Tree Frog, Green Tree Frog Black Pine Snake Corn Snake American Toad American Alligator Alligator Snapping Turtle, American Beaver Nutria Spectacled Caiman American Bullfrog, Western Painted Turtle, Yellow-blotched Map Turtle Eastern Indigo Snake Alligator Snapping Turtle, American Crocodile, Common Snapping Turtle Lied Jungle (not separated by exhibit, since many of these can move between areas) Luzon Bleeding-Heart Dove White-crested Laughing Thrush Asian Small-clawed Otter White-handed Gibbon Grey Gibbon Indian Crested Porcupine Splendid Tree Frog Blood Python Quince Monitor Egyptian Fruit Bat (free flight) Francois' Langur Malayan Tapir Giant Indian Fruit Bat? (free flight) Imperial Pigeon (free flight) Common Crowned Pigeon (free flight) Nicobar Pigeon (free flight) Diana Monkey Nile Softshelled Turtle Black Crake Hamerkop Hadada Ibis Wolf's Guenon African Pygmy Goose Hadada Ibis White-faced Whistling Duck Violaceous Turaco Giant Elephant Shrew De Brazza's Monkey Pygmy Hippo Home's Hinge-backed Tortoise Giant African Bullfrog Brown duck with black/white head Black goose with white head Spotted-necked Otter Black-headed Spider Monkey Baird's Tapir Pallas' Long-tongued Bat Green Crested Basilisk Collared Tree Lizard Smooth-sided Toad Yellow Backed Dart Frog Panamanian Golden Frog Yellow Anaconda Green & Black Dart Frog Hourglass Frog Plumed Basilisk Smokey Jungle Frog Scarlet Macaw Blue-and-Yellow Macaw Arapaima Redtail Catfish Pacu Black Howler Monkey Red-backed Bearded Saki Squirrel Monkey Lowland Paca Iguana species, no signage Blue-grey Tanager (free flight) Black Howler Monkey Central American Tiger Rat Snake Ocellate River Stingray Mata Mata Green Severum Plecostomus Philippine Crocodile Asian Black-spine Toad Bornean Eared Frog Solomon Island Eyelash Frog Orangutan Forest Agile Gibbon, Bornean Orangutan Gray's Monitor Siamang Melodius Laughing Thrush Bornean Orangutan, outside Simmons Aviary American Flamingo Roseate Spoonbill Scarlet Ibis Baikal Teal Chiloe Wigeon North American Wood Duck Bar-headed Goose Cattle Egret Inca Tern White Stork West African Crowned Crane Ibises Swans Ducks, Teals, and Pintails Others California Sea Lion (Sea Lion Pavilion) African Pink-backed Pelican, Koi, White-faced Whistling Duck, several monkey species (Lagoon Island) Abyssinian Ground Hornbill, Okapi, Yellow-backed Duiker (near birthday area, across from aquarium) Goats (Children's Adventure Trails) Atlantic Stingray, Cownose Ray (Stingray Beach) Amur Tiger x3 (old big cats building) Cougar (old big cats building) Komodo Dragon (old big cats building) Snow Leopard x2 (old big cats building)
Hi! I actually work there, so hopefully like I can give some more insight. African Grasslands: The kenyan crested guineafowl share an exhibit with the rock hyraxes during the summer while the spurwing goose is in the pond with the pelicans and whistling ducks. I'm pretty sure the secretary birds with the bongos are stanley blue cranes. Who knows though, it's been a while since I've been over there so they may just be new. Desert Dome: Star finch, long-tail finch, double-barred finch, cinnamon teal, chestnut teal, australian wood ducks, cape teal, and magpie shrike are also free-flight but not signed Expedition Madagascar: I'm pretty sure there are also powder blue reed frog in the mantella exhibit Gorilla Valley: The unnamed geese are Egyptian geese Kingdoms of the Night: The emerald tree boas and amazon milk frogs are separated from the magnificent tree frogs and green tree pythons by a pane of glass, so they're technically different exhibits. Jungle: There flying foxes are giant indian flying foxes. I think the "Brown goose with black and white head" is the white-winged duck The iguana is a green iguana. An Argentine black-and-white tegu also lives on that island Some other free-flight species I've seen are white-cheeked turacos, javan pond herons, radjah shelducks, wandering shelducks, silver-beak tanagers, great argus pheasants, grey-neck wood rail, nicobar pigeons, Hartlaub's duck, crested screamer, white-faced whistling duck, and more. Aviary: Oh many there are SO many species, especially during the summer. Some others I've spotted include sacred ibis, waldrapp ibis, black-neck swan, golden pheasant, hamerkop, bahama pintail, mandarin duck, red-crested pochard, northern pintail, redhead duck, Barrow's goldeneye, blue-winged teal, cinnamon teal, hooded merganser, marbled teal, northern shoveler, ring-neck duck, and ruddy shelduck. Please let me know if you have any questions or anything, I love talking about it
Thank you SO much, you are awesome! I wasn't expecting to ever have the answer to some of those, you've made my night I'm getting better at birds and did at least notice the Nicobars, I found a nest (a bit above eye level at a corner, between the two pygmy hippo areas) but thought they must be something else that looked really similar because they weren't signed. I enjoyed watching them for a bit, the male was flying off and bringing back twigs. It's silly but it was such a sweet, hidden moment, just outside of the regular view of such a busy area. Thanks especially for the aviary, too. I was there just after that first big snow melted (or so I heard), so the aviary was a brown, gross mess with very few birds out, plus the walkway being closed. I was surprised at the lack of signage in there. Regarding the birds in with the bongo, I remember thinking they didn't quite look exactly like secretary birds, but I've gotten pretty good with the long-legged species (there's a lot of them in Dallas and Fort Worth, lol) and couldn't think of what else they could be. I don't remember them quite being blue, but I know I got at least one film photo of them and I should finally be getting my developed rolls of film back by this weekend so I'll be able to provide a photo then Thank you again! I went to Omaha for a weekend just to go to the zoo and the conservation center (amazing behind the scenes experience there), and the zoo blew me away. It was better than I ever could have imagined. Oh! Aquarium species! I have absolutely nothing from there. I'd particularly like to know at least the penguin/bird and shark species.
The aquarium is a hard one for me too, even my list isn't updated. The first bird exhibit has common murres, tufted puffins, and atlantic puffins For penguins, we have gentoos, southern rockhoppers, and kings. We have african penguins as well but I don't know if/where they're on exhibit at the moment. The big shark tunnel has zebra sharks, sandbar sharks, nurse sharks, an a couple wobbegong species. One of the later exhibits has bonnethead sharks, epaulette sharks, and whitespotted bamboo sharks Some other notable species in there are the japanese spider crabs, loggerhead sea turtle, green sea turtles, several jellyfish species, moray eels, pot-bellied seahorses, giant pacific octopus, toco toucans, and some amazonian species.
Thank you again!! I didn't even see the sea turtles The octopus was out and playing with the pumpkin decoration he had though, which was awesome to see for a minute (until everyone else noticed and crowded, of course). It's a really nice aquarium.
I remember someone telling me once that the Salvadori's Weavers aren't actually pure. I forget what they were hybridized with but unfortunately it doesn't seem like they're actually present at the zoo. ~Thylo
Do you mean the Salvadori's or what they were hybridized with? Last time I was there they were still down by gorillas. I believe I've spotted some in the dome too, but it may have been a similar species.
I'm not sure what happened to the exact individual, it probably passed away. However, as of last August there were a couple living behind the scenes of the desert dome for breeding
