Species list April 2026

This was my second visit to Brook Valley Zoo, and the collection has changed somewhat since my visit last year. For example, last year they had only one species of bird-of-paradise on display, the greater bird-of-paradise. This year, however, they had six different species on display across 26 aviaries (greater, lesser, magnificent, red, king, and twelve-wired).

They also had flame bowerbird in seven aviaries this time, compared to just one aviary last year.

Some species that were present last year were no longer on display, such as great barbet, cotton pygmy goose, and pheasant-tailed jacana. We were told that the pheasant-tailed jacanas had moved to a private collection in Germany, with the hope of receiving some back in the future if breeding there is successful.

𝗟𝗶𝗸𝗲 𝗹𝗮𝘀𝘁 𝘆𝗲𝗮𝗿, 𝗜 𝗺𝗮𝗱𝗲 𝗮 𝘀𝗽𝗲𝗰𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝗹𝗶𝘀𝘁; 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝘀𝗲 𝘄𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝗲𝗶𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿 𝘀𝗲𝗲𝗻, 𝘀𝗶𝗴𝗻𝗲𝗱, 𝗼𝗿 𝗯𝗼𝘁𝗵:

Anseriformes:

African pygmy goose - Nettapus auritus

White-faced whistling duck - Dendrocygna viduata

Mandarin duck - Aix galericulata

Common eider - Somateria mollissima

Harlequin duck - Histrionicus histrionicus

Scaly-sided merganser - Mergus squamatus

Red-breasted merganser - Mergus serrator

Smew - Mergellus albellus

Fuegian steamer duck - Tachyeres pteneres

Lake duck - Oxyura vittata

Radjah shelduck - Radjah radjah

Barrow's goldeneye - Bucephala islandica

Phoenicopteriformes:

Chilean flamingo - Phoenicopterus chilensis

Podicipediformes:

Little grebe - Tachybaptus ruficollis

Great crested grebe - Podiceps cristatus

Red-necked grebe - Podiceps grisegena

Black-necked grebe - Podiceps nigricollis

Ciconiiformes:

White stork - Ciconia ciconia

Black stork - Ciconia nigra

Pelecaniformes:

Scarlet ibis - Eudocimus ruber

Buff-necked ibis - Theristicus caudatus

Madagascar crested ibis - Lophotibis cristata

Gruiformes:

Sarus crane - Antigone antigone

White-naped crane - Antigone vipio

Blue crane - Grus paradisea

Demoiselle crane - Grus virgo

Black-necked crane - Grus nigricollis

Wattled crane - Grus carunculata

Black crowned crane - Balearica pavonina

Grey crowned crane - Balearica regulorum

Red-crowned crane - Grus japonensis

Common crane - Grus grus

Charadriiformes:

Northern lapwing - Vanellus vanellus

Eurasian stone-curlew - Burhinus oedicnemus

Ruff - Calidris pugnax

Common redshank - Tringa totanus

Black-winged stilt - Himantopus himantopus

Pied avocet - Recurvirostra avosetta

Rufous-collared pratincole - Glareola nuchalis liberiae

Inca tern - Larosterna inca

Common sandpiper - Actitis hypoleucos

Columbiformes:

Nicobar pigeon - Caloenas nicobarica

Casuariiformes:

Southern cassowary - Casuarius casuarius

Golden-necked cassowary - Casuarius unappendiculatus aurantiacus

Coraciiformes:

European bee-eater - Merops apiaster

Northern carmine bee-eater - Merops nubicus

Sphenisciformes:

Humboldt penguin - Spheniscus humboldti

Bucerotiformes:

Great hornbill - Buceros bicornis

Rhinoceros hornbill - Buceros rhinoceros

Mindanao rufous hornbill - Buceros mindanensis mindanensis

Samar rufous hornbill - Buceros mindanensis semigaleatus

Northern rufous hornbill - Buceros hydrocorax

Luzon hornbill - Penelopides manillae

Knobbed hornbill - Rhyticeros cassidix

Blyth's hornbill - Rhyticeros plicatus

Wreathed hornbill - Rhyticeros undulatus

Writhed hornbill - Rhabdotorrhinus leucocephalus

Piciformes:

Curl-crested araçari - Pteroglossus beauharnaisii

Spot-billed toucanet - Selenidera maculirostris

Toco toucan - Ramphastos toco

Irenidae:

Asian fairy-bluebird - Irena puella

Paradisaeidae:

Greater bird-of-paradise - Paradisaea apoda

Magnificent bird-of-paradise - Diphyllodes magnificus

King bird-of-paradise - Cicinnurus regius

Red bird-of-paradise - Paradisaea rubra

Twelve-wired bird-of-paradise - Seleucidis melanoleuca

Lesser bird-of-paradise - Paradisaea minor

Ptilonorhynchidae:

Flame bowerbird - Sericulus ardens

Sturnidae:

Western Golden myna - Mino anais anais

Yellow-faced myna - Mino dumontii

Leiothrichidae:

White-crested laughingthrush - Garrulax leucolophus

Red-tailed laughingthrush - Trochalopteron milnei

Cotingidae:

Guianan cock-of-the-rock - Rupicola rupicola

Prunellidae:

Dunnock - Prunella modularis

Artamidae:

Hooded butcherbird - Cracticus cassicus

Corvidae:

Indochinese green magpie - Cissa hypoleuca

Australian magpie - Gymnorhina tibicen

Strigiformes:

Snowy owl - Bubo scandiacus

Western Siberian eagle owl - Bubo bubo sibiricus

Verreaux's eagle-owl - Ketupa lactea

Spectacled owl - Pulsatrix perspicillata

Ural owl - Strix uralensis

Accipitriformes:

Andean condor - Vultur gryphus

Golden eagle - Aquila chrysaetos

Verreaux's eagle - Aquila verreauxii

Bateleur - Terathopius ecaudatus

Black-chested buzzard-eagle - Geranoaetus melanoleucus

Martial eagle - Polemaetus bellicosus

Crowned hawk-eagle - Stephanoaetus coronatus

White-bellied sea eagle - Icthyophaga leucogaster

Bald eagle - Haliaeetus leucocephalus

Steller's sea eagle - Haliaeetus pelagicus

Galliformes:

Palawan peacock-pheasant - Polyplectron napoleonis

Vulturine guinea fowl - Acryllium vulturinum

Otidiformes:

Kori bustard - Ardeotis kori

Musophagiformes:

Great blue turaco - Corythaeola cristata

Mammalia:

Eastern wallaroo - Osphranter robustus robustus

Red-rumped agouti - Dasyprocta leporina

Patagonian mara - Dolichotis patagonum

Alpine marmot - Marmota marmota

Grant's zebra - Equus quagga boehmi

South American tapir - Tapirus terrestris

Alpine ibex - Capra ibex

Blackbuck - Antilope cervicapra

Lechwe - Kobus leche

Sitatunga - Tragelaphus spekii

Gemsbok - Oryx gazella?

Testudines:

African spurred tortoise (Centrochelys sulcata)

Cypriniformes:

Chinese sucker - Myxocyprinus asiaticus