Storks, Hamerkop, and Shoebill in North America

Not Marabou?

 

Not on display, at least.

 

why do zoos display marabou storks, They are ugly.

 

Why do zoos display Alligator Snapping Turtles, they are ugly.

~Thylo

 

Why do zoos display aye aye, they are ugly as well.

 

Why do zoos display warthog, they're pretty ugly as well.

 

White Stork is kept by Detroit.

Binder Park keeps both Marabou and Black Storks.

 

Baton Rouge has Marabou, Saddle-billed, and Abdim's last time I was there

 

Mycteria

Milky Stork (2 holders)

Audubon (3.7)(offshow)
San Diego

Yellow-billed Stork (7 holders)

Dallas
Fort Worth
Franklin Park
Fresno Chaffee
Jacksonville
San Diego Zoo Safari Park
Zoo Tampa

Painted Stork (4 holders)

Bronx
Columbus
Prospect Park
Zoo Miami (0.0.8)

Wood Stork (4 holders)

Dallas
Houston
Ponce Inlet Marine Science Center
Sedgwick County


Anastomus

African Openbill (6 holders)

Cameron Park
Fort Worth
Lowry Park
San Diego
San Diego Zoo Safari Park
Zoo Miami (1.1)


Ciconia

Abdim’s Stork (18 holders)

America’s Teaching Zoo
Audubon (6.4.4)(offshow)
Baton Rouge
Boulder Ridge Wild Animal Park
Bronx
Creation Kingdom
Dallas?
Fort Worth
Fresno Chaffee
Jacksonville
Lee Richardson
Lincoln Park
Milwaukee
Safari West
San Diego Zoo Safari Park
Special Memories
Timbavati Wildlife Park
World Bird Sanctuary

Storm’s Stork (3 or 4 holders)

Bronx
Fort Worth (0.0.2)
San Diego Zoo Safari Park
Zoo Miami?

Maguari Stork (3 holders)

Audubon
Dallas (1.1?)
San Antonio

Oriental Stork (1 holder)

Louisville

White Stork (23 holders)

African Lion Safari (1.1.3)
Akron (still there?)
Brookfield
Cleveland Metroparks
Dallas
Detroit
Dickerson Park
Disney’s Animal Kingdom
Fort Wayne’s Children’s
Grant’s Farm
Honolulu
Lincoln Park
Metro Richmond
Omaha
Safari West
San Antonio
San Diego Zoo Safari Park
Sedgwick County
Toledo
Tulsa
Virginia
Zoo Miami (0.0.1)
Zoo Knoxville

Black Stork (5 holders)

Binder Park
Central Park
Dallas
Fort Wayne’s Children’s
Louisville


Ephippiorhynchus

Black-necked Stork (2 holders)

San Antonio (1.0)
Zoo Miami (2.0)

Saddle-billed Stork (21 holders)

Audubon (2.1)(offshow)
Baton Rouge
Cincinnati (0.1)
Columbus (0.2)
Dallas
Detroit
Disney’s Animal Kingdom
Fort Worth
Franklin Park
Kansas City
Lowry Park
Maryland
Nashville
Philadelphia
Safari West
San Diego
Sedgewick County
St. Louis
Sylvan Heights Bird Park
Toledo
Zoo Miami


Jabiru

Jabiru (1 holder)

Dallas World Aquarium (0.1) (offshow?)


Leptoptilos

Lesser Adjutant (2 holders)

Bronx
Racine

Marabou Stork (25 holders)

Abilene
African Lion Safari (1.1.2)
Albuquerque
Audubon
Baton Rouge
Binder Park
Brevard
Brights
Bronx
Cleveland Metroparks
Dallas
Gladys Porter
Greater Vancouver
Honolulu (1.1)
Houston
Indianapolis
Jacksonville
Lion Country Safari
Memphis
Milwaukee
San Francisco (1.1)
St. Louis
Toronto (1.2)
Zoo Tampa
Zoo de Granby


Scopus

Hamerkop (30 holders)

Albuquerque
Aquatica San Antonio
Bronx
Busch Gardens Tampa
Calgary (1.1)
Cincinnati
Columbus
Dallas
Fort Worth
Franklin Park
Honolulu
Jacksonville
Lee Richardson
Lincoln Park
Lowry Park
Maryland
Milwaukee (1.1)
National Aviary
Oakland
Oregon (1.1)
Philadelphia
Safari West
San Antonio
San Diego
San Diego Zoo Safari Park (1.1)
San Francisco (1.1)
Santa Barbara
Toronto (2.0)
Tulsa
Zoo Atlanta


Balaeniceps

Shoebill (4 holders)

Dallas World Aquarium (1.1)
Houston (1.1)
San Diego Zoo Safari Park (1.1 on show, 1.1 offshow)
Zoo Tampa (1.1)

 

I haven't seen San Antonio's black-necked stork since I started visiting last November. Its signed for the main flamingo exhibit but has been absent. I also happened to miss the species while at Zoo Miami last year

 

I thought the San Diego Safari Park was down to 0.1 Shoebill and were planning on sending it to another zoo.

 

If so that's sad news indeed, the numbers listed are probably outdated for SDZSP.

 

Milky Stork is also kept at San Diego Zoo Safari Park.

 

Do not believe Prospect Park still keeps Painted Stork. Most recent numbers I have for this species is Bronx (2.3), Columbus (2.2) and Miami (6.5). Sadly this species is being phased-out in favour of Milky stork.

There is just one female Storm's stork left in the US and there have been no successful breeding attempts since 2017 (that chick only survived 17 days). Pretty sure it is no longer at Miami.

 

These are the milky storks from the Freeport-McMoRan Audubon Species Survival Center, which has officially gone out of the species. Those storks will eventually be introduced to the storks at the zoo to combine all of the remaining birds into one flock.

 

Prospect Park no longer keeper Painted Stork, and Columbus' flock has gone to Bronx.

Bronx no longer holds Marabou or Abdim's Stork.

Storm's Stork is only kept at Bronx (one animal) and San Diego now, I believe.

Bronx no longer keeps Hamerkop.

San Diego is indeed down to a single Shoebill who is due to go to another zoo.

~Thylo

 

This article talks about the Milkys in San Diego:
Only 24 of these storks are in North America. The San Diego Zoo and Safari Park have them

 

I wonder if Miami's birds will go to the Bronx as well since they're the only sizable flock left in the US? It's a shame so few AZA institutions are keeping the rarer stork species. Anyone know species are being planned to be kept in the AZA long-term like how so many hoofstock species in AZA Ungulates program are as of this year chosen to be phased out? I'm assuming that Marabous, Abdim's and White Storks will stay, Yellowbills and Saddlebills will be a monitored ssp and hopefully more facilities will hold Milky's once the numbers grow/more are imported to the US for the SSP. They can get more from Prague or Cologne. I bet once the Black Necked's die off AZA likely won't be replacing them. Species I'd like to see more done with in AZA are Lesser Adjutants and African Openbills. If anyone wants to see Yellowbills Jacksonville is definitely the place to be!

 

Strongly disagree

Because they are fascinating birds which perform a vital function within African ecosystems?

If the idea of beauty has any relation to zoos and the species kept (which it doesn't because it's a totally arbitrary categorization) then you need to realize it's subjective.