A new private bird park opened yesterday. Directly on highway D8. Only 5 km east of Prague, in village Nehvizdy (well-off suburb area). Accessible by several city bus lines, with free parking. I havent visited myself yet so can´t comment on it much. Few photos online hint on decent quality of aviaries. Its internet site lists 100 bird species (waterfowl, pheasants, owls, parrots, flamingos...), 20 mammals (mostly low-maintenance public favorites like suricatas) and 3 tortoises. I had seen on photos some bird species not listed on the site, total species count migth be slightly higher. zooparknehvizdy.cz – Zoo v Nehvizdech
Not many very rare species in there but a pretty good species list nonetheless, and a very extensive waterbird/waterfowl collection. Will be interesting to see what comes of it.
They´ve got official zoo licence. https://www.mzp.cz/C1257458002F0DC7...E/odoimz-seznam_zoo_licence_2023-20230406.pdf
A Patagonian mara was born recently. And seriemas have 1 chick. Caribbean flamingo flock is in mood for breeding, 5 pairs laid eggs and are incubating. Northern white-faced scops-owls have eggs that should hatch any day.
At least 2 Caribbean flamingo chicks hatched. The owner works on following future exhibits: - new enclosure for racka sheep (Hungarian breed with funny horns) - new aviaries for small species of birds of prey - koi pond - red river hog enclosure is ready but they wait for animals Source
They got a new species - Western grey kangaroos (from Pilsen) arrived last month. The zoopark owner employs 3 animal keepers, 1 zoologist lady with university degree (rule set by Czech zoo licencing law), 4 maintenance/construction guys, few catering staff (seems mostly part-time). In preparation - walk-through room with small exotic birds (probably astrilds I guess?). - "tropical hall" - their first heated pavilion, species unknown. Source
It's eastern gray actually, they confuse these two from the time of arrival, but from pictures they are quite clearly eastern gray.