Critter News
JULY 18, 2011
An article in today's Seattle Times about Woodland Park Zoo's attempts over the last 20 years to breed elephants. The zoo claims it's to preserve the species. Very controversial with organizations such as In Defense of Animals, PETA and the Northwest Animal Rights Network. They say it's cruel.
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 1, 2012
With 7,500 birds (1,500 breeding pairs), the German population is still rather small compared to the numbers the parakeets have built up in the UK or the Netherlands, where the populations range in the 10s of thousands. The zoo has a small colony of genuinely wild Grey Herons (watch them compete with the seals for the fish!),
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10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 27, 2013
It seems likely that this individual bird was an escape from a local zoo, as has already been theorized on the New York State listserv. Imagine the long, lonely flight of a White Stork over the entirety of the Atlantic Ocean, blown off course as it tried to find its way back to its breeding grounds.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 15, 2011
Thirteen Spoon-billed Sandpipers have arrived in England after spending sixty days in quarantine at Moscow Zoo. The birds were captured on their breeding grounds in Siberia and the hope is that they can be used to start a captive breeding program in an attempt to bring the species back from the brink.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 30, 2012
It was not a flycatcher at all, but an exotic (and equally bizarre) from Africa, which certainly escaped from someone’s cage or perhaps even migrated from the small breeding population of escapees in southern California. Sure enough, the bird’s true identity became known the next day.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 12, 2014
Several European zoos had this species in their collections at the time, but they either made no effort to breed it or it did not breed well in captivity.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 11, 2019
It is a collaboration of Rogue and the Oregon Zoo , one of a handful of condor breeding facilities in the United States ( review here ). Visitors to the Pacific Northwest who appreciate craft beer might sample Condor Kolsch from Rogue Ale & Spirits of Newport, Oregon.
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