ZooChat Exhibit Design Competition #3

Updated list with Chlidonias' deletions.

1. Northern cassowary
2. Papuan hornbill
3. Black-Necked Stork
4. Raggiana Bird of Paradise
5. Eclectus Parrot
6. Palm Cockatoo
7. Black Capped Lory
8. Little Pied Cormorant
9. Pied Heron
10. White-faced Heron
11. Striated Heron
12. Glossy Ibis
13. Magpie Goose
14. Plumed Whistling Duck
15. Wandering Whistling Duck
16. Cotton Pygmy Goose
17. Brahminy Kite
18. Buff-banded Rail
19. Australian Swamphen
20. Masked Lapwing
21. Metallic Pigeon
22. Peaceful Dove
23. Nicobar Pigeon
24. Southern Crowned Pigeon
25. Wompoo Fruit-dove
26. Orante Fruit-dove
27. Superb Fruit-dove
28. Torresian Imperial Pigeon
29. Papuan Mountain Pigeon
30. Blue-eyed Cockatoo
31. Brown Lory
32. Pesquet's Parrot
33. Edward's Fig Parrot
34. Dollarbird
35. Hooded Pitta
36. Olive-backed Sunbird
37. Spangled Drongo
38. King Bird-of-paradise
39. Metallic Starling
40. Flame Bowerbird
41. Goldie's Lorikeet
42. Double-eyed Fig Parrot
43. Victoria crowned Pigeon
44. White-naped Pheasant Pigeon
45. Emerald Pigeon
46. Radjah Shelduck
47. Yellow-Faced Myna
48. Blue-faced Honeyeater
49. Black Munia
50. Blue-faced Parrotfinch

 

Agree with the Kite. Having two crowned pigeons could be doable, as long as there's enough room. There are swamphens here, just not sure of species since the split happened.

 

There is a small number of Fawn-breasted Bowerbirds, FWIW.

 

i would like to add Roth's tree frog the species list

 

When is Phase 2 coming out?

 

Soon. It seems that interest in the collection phase waned however.

 

Here are my comments on the list that was posted a week ago. I've reorganized it by order, because that's how I operate. New species I've added to the list are in green.

Northern cassowary <-- none in US, not well suited for indoor exhibit

Magpie Goose
Plumed Whistling Duck
Wandering Whistling Duck
Spotted Whistling Duck <-- SSP species
Radjah Shelduck
Cotton Pygmy Goose

Metallic Pigeon <-- not many left in US
Peaceful Dove <-- none left in US
White-naped Pheasant Pigeon <-- not many in US
Green-naped Pheasant Pigeon <-- SSP species
Southern Crowned Pigeon <-- not many in US
Blue Crowned Pigeon <-- SSP species
Victoria crowned Pigeon
Nicobar Pigeon
Emerald Dove aka Green-winged Dove
Torresian Imperial Pigeon <-- none in US
Purple-tailed Imperial Pigeon <-- recent imports
Collared Imperial Pigeon <-- not many in US but a possibility
Pied Imperial Pigeon
Wompoo Fruit-dove
Ornate Fruit-dove <-- none in US
Superb Fruit-dove <-- none left in US
Beautiful Fruit-dove
Papuan Mountain Pigeon

Buff-banded Rail
Australian Swamphen

Black-Necked Stork <-- not many left in US, not well suited for indoor exhibit

Straw-necked Ibis <-- SSP species
Glossy Ibis <-- uncommon
Striated Heron
Pied Heron <-- none in US
White-faced Heron <-- none in US

Little Pied Cormorant <-- none in US, a few in Canada

Masked Lapwing

Brahminy Kite <-- none left in AZA, possibly from private sector?, not well suited for indoor exhibit

Papuan hornbill <-- not many left in US

Dollarbird
Blue-winged Kookaburra <-- uncommon

Palm Cockatoo
Blue-eyed Cockatoo <-- uncommon
Pesquet's Parrot
Eclectus Parrot
Brown Lory
Stella's Lory <-- uncommon
Black Capped Lory
Dusky Lory
Coconut Lorikeet
Goldie's Lory
Double-eyed Fig Parrot <-- uncommon
Edward's Fig Parrot <-- uncommon

Hooded Pitta
Olive-backed Sunbird <-- none in US
Blue-faced Honeyeater
Spangled Drongo <-- none in US
White-breasted Woodswallow
Flame Bowerbird <-- none in US
Fawn-breasted Bowerbird
Superb Bird of Paradise <-- SSP species
Magificent Bird of Paradise <-- uncommon
Red Bird of Paradise <-- uncommon
Lesser Bird of Paradise
Raggiana Bird of Paradise
King Bird-of-paradise <-- none in US
Yellow-Faced Myna <-- not many left in US
Metallic Starling
Blue-faced Parrotfinch
Black-faced Munia <-- none in US

 

Unless something has changed, there is still one ornate fruit dove and a few superb fruit doves hanging around in the US. I saw both at the San Diego Zoo in December 2015.

Also, I mentioned red-knobbed imperial pigeon but it doesn't seem to have ended up in anyone's list.

 

I think a discussion should be had regarding the use of "substitution" species. As fkalltheway has pointed out in his amazingly organised list, Blue-winged Kookaburra are uncommon, would it be acceptable to sub in another species of Kookaburra, that is more common within AZA, if the animal is deemed very important to the overall exhibit and theme/message. Same discussion could be had regarding wallabies, echidnas, and cassowary.

 

I think we need to take a chainsaw to the list and get it down to 20 or so species. Lots of stuff can go in a walkthrough and then we can have a few satellite/separate aviaries.
As I understand it the point of this phase is not to create a list of species that one theoretically could include, but rather to make a list that everyone will stick to broadly, with a little room to improvise at the edges.

 

I might be a bit presumptuous in saying this, but is it possible that this challenge has become overly complicated? The first two had lots of enthusiasm but this one has really petered out.
I think people really just want to plan exhibits and draw maps. Maybe we can reset this one?

 

Part of that is my fault. I've been finishing writing a textbook, so I've forgotten to put out the needed info.

 

I don´t think it´s THAT complicated. Yeah the preparation takes time, but then will it run smoothly. I think that people mostly waited for some additional info from jb.

 

I think we can have a relatively large exhibit with some breeding crocodile monitors in it. Next to it can be a large waterfall tank with red-bellied pacu, which are an invasive species