Storks, Hamerkop, and Shoebill in North America

That surprised me too, being as they're reasonably common along the Gulf Coast you'd think there'd be more, especially as rehabs.

True, though being as they are wild birds I chose not to include them here, even though they do breed on zoo grounds. They aren't tied to the zoo necessarily.

 

Doesn't Fort Wayne Children's Zoo have Black storks?

 

Yes, they do.

 

These are the one's I have seen
Black stork
Fort Wayne Children's Zoo
Saddle-billed stork
Brookfield Zoo
Hamerkop
Lincoln Park Zoo
Milwaukee County Zoo
European white stork
Lincoln Park Zoo
Metro Richmond Zoo
VA Zoo
Fort Wayne Zoo
Lesser adjutant
Racine Zoo
Bronx Zoo
Abdim's stork
Brookfield Zoo
Milwaukee County Zoo
Creation Kingdom Zoo
Lincoln Park Zoo
Painted stork
Columbus Zoo
Marabou stork
Metro Richmond Zoo
Bronx Zoo
Milwaukee County Zoo
Brookfield Zoo
Fort Wayne Zoo

 

Save our Seabirds sanctuary in Sarasota and Busch Wildlife Sanctuary in Jupiter both had rehab Wood Storks when I was in Florida in 2013 and may still do.

 

Bronx keeps Abdim's Stork and the Ponce Inlet Marine Science Center outside of Daytona Beach keeps Wood Stork.

~Thylo

 

When did Brookfield keep Saddle-Billed? I don't think they keep them now. I don't they currently have Marabou, either.

 

The Saddle-billed stork was (or still is) in an area of the zoo that is not often visited, near the nature trail, by one of the many exhibits of Red-flanked duiker.

 

I can confirm that there are no saddle-billed or marabou storks currently at Brookfield.

 

I noticed there were a lot of storks in Dallas, but I didn't realize how uncommon most were! Maryland has several hamerkop in the African aviary.

 

White Stork also kept by Grant's Farm.

 

How I missed this thread is beyond me (storks are the BEST!!!) but I had no idea Yellow-Billed's were only in so few zoos. I thought more AZA accredited zoos had them and were using them as a substitute for showcasing the Mycteria since the Painted Stork SSP is barely making any progress.

I believe Lowry Park got rid of their Saddlebills. Last time I visited in Jan 2017 they were not in the Ituri Forest aviary.

Is any zoo planning on working with Milky Storks or Greater Adjutants in the future? Given Zoo Negara's good program on captive breeding on the Milky's it'd be a great partnership for the AZA and them to help raise awareness and bolster the population. Also they seem to have tons of Painted Storks that wander the grounds. Perhaps Negara could send about 20 new birds to the US to help with the SSP? I would love to visit Audubon's SSC to see the Milky's that they have.

For Greater Adjutants I would suggest the AZA teaming up with Aaranyak of Assam India. They have Purnima Devi Barman who was the recipient of a Whitley Award last year on her behalf of forming the Hargila Army aimed at promoting and protecting the Greater Adjutant through community based efforts in Assam. I'm a HUGE FAN of hers! An added group could be the Angkor Centre for Conservation of Biodiversity which has had great success in breeding Lesser Adjutants and Bronx, Racine wouldn't be the only ones with them.

Now I can rant on and on about storks, but I think I 'll leave it at that!

 

white stork metro richmond zoo

 

• Marabou stork metro richmond zoo

 

I can now confirm that Columbus does indeed keep Painted Stork.

 

Saddle-billed storks at Sylvan Heights

 

St Louis lists marabou storks as well in the antelope yards

 

Brights zoo has Marabou storks

 

Zoo de Granby/Granby Zoo has 2 Marabou Storks, but I do not know their gender. I’ll try to ask when I visit this summer.

 

Toledo keeps White and Saddle-billed Storks.