Jan
23

There’s No Such Thing as Too Many Chicks!

Posted by 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:
 

Black-naped Fruit Dove Chick photo by Benjamin King

Attwater's Prairie Chicken Chick photo by Mollie Coym

Blue-billed Curassow Chick with foster chicken hen photo by Christopher Holmes

 

Lady Ross Turaco chick photo by Megan Neal

 

Congo Peafowl chick photo by Rene Ryan

 
 

Speckled Mousebird chicks photo by Benjamin King

 

Micronesian Kingfisher chick in the nest with mom. Photo by Benjamin King

 

 

Pheasant Pigeon chick photo by Stephanie Adams

 

Madagascan Buttonquail Chick photo by Jeremy Whitted.

Crested Wood Partridge chick photo by Mollie Coym

 

Sunbittern chick with parent photo by Stephanie Adams

 
 

Silver-beaked Tanager Photo by Jeremy Whitted

 

White-headed Buffalo chick photo by Samantha Montgomery

 

Siamese Fireback chick photo by Rene Ryan

 

Waldrapp Ibis chicks photo by Samantha Montgomery

 

Red-billed Blue Magpie chicks photo by Rene Ryan

 

Blue-bellied Roller Chick photo by Samantha Montgomery

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