There’s No Such Thing as Too Many Chicks!

Jan

Posted by Megan Neal in Babies,Birds,Endangered

For the bird department, 2011 was a very busy and productive year, and 2012 is shaping up to be the same. That’s why you’re getting this rundown of our significant hatches and adorable baby birds of 2011 in late January of this year…we’re pretty busy, with more babies!

Last year our department hatched 40 different species of bird. That’s not just 40 babies folks, that’s 40 different kinds of birds that hatched, and in many cases, there was far more than one! These hatchings included ducks, parrots, pheasants, curassows, tanagers, kingfishers, ibis and many more. The Blue-billed Curassow and Waldrapp Ibis are critically endangered, and the Micronesian Kingfisher is extinct in the wild! We are working with other zoos around the world to establish a healthy captive population of these animals to fend off complete extinction.

Not to mention, the babies are cute!

Beware, below you will find some cripplingly adorable photos, some are of very high quality, and some come to us from the magic that is the smart phone: