Tierpark Dählhölzli Dählhölzli news

The Tierpark received a new pair of lynx last week. A male born in 2018 from zoo Jihlava and a female born 2012 from Port Lympne. Both of them are pure bred Carpathian lynxes and they have breeding recomendation for this spring. Their eventual cubs are destined to be rewilded in Italian Alps.

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Rock partridges and Western capercaillie have hatched at Tierpark Dählhölzli.

Die ersten 4 Alpensteinhühner sind geschlüpft! Das Brutpaar bei der Bärenburg hat Nachwuchs bekommen. Die flauschigen Federknäuel erkunden unter Mutters Aufsicht bereits die ganze Anlage. Das Alpensteinhuhn trifft man in den Alpen in Höhenlagen von 700 bis 2700 Meter über Meer an. Bevorzugt sind unübersichtliche Steilhänge. Hier ist es dank seiner felsenfarbigen Zeichnung hervorragend getarnt. Sobald sich die Schneedecke schliesst, weicht es in tiefere Lagen aus und taucht auch in Siedlungsgebieten von Bergdörfern auf. In selbst gegrabenen Schneehöhlen verbringt es die kalten Winternächte. Zur Brutzeit (April bis Juni) trifft man die Tiere paarweise an. Das Weibchen brütet die Eier alleine aus. Alpensteinhühner können über weite Strecken laufend fliehen, um sich dann in einer schier unzugänglichen Spalte zu verkriechen. Sie ernähren sich vorwiegend von Wacholder, Preiselbeeren, Heidekraut und Bärentrauben. #TierparkBern #Dählhölzli #Alpensteinhuhn #Bern #Zoo #Tierpark #Zoobesuch #IloveBern | Tierpark Bern, Dählhölzli + BärenPark |
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The new exhibit for Exuma island iguanas was opened this summer. It is located where the Hispaniolan rhinoceros iguanas and chuckwallas used to live. Bern is the 3rd zoo in Europe with this species. Northern curly-tailed lizards are their co-inhabitants.

This year 3 Madagascan flat-tailed tortoises hatched, which after the first breeding in 2021 is the second year in which Bern manages to breed them. This CR species is only kept in 3 European zoos and according to Bern they are currently the only ones breeding them.

Source: Tierpark Bern website.

 

The Tierpark is building some new exciting exhibits for European bee-eaters. To do that, they are refurbishing two existing aviaries : the little grebe outside aviary near the entrance, and the indoor rainforest.

"Today was the start of construction of the new bee-eater enclosure!

For the warmth-loving bee-eater, probably the most colourful bird in Europe, we are building an outdoor enclosure for the warm season (breeding season) and an indoor enclosure for the cold season.

In summer, the bee-eaters live in a 182 m² habitat modelled on a Swiss steppe from the Phynwald in Valais, where visitors to the zoo can gain an insight into the exciting breeding biology of the birds when they build their breeding burrows in a clay wall and raise their young.

In winter, the bee-eaters migrate "to the south", i.e. to the spacious indoor aviary, which with its 100 square metres will represent a habitat in Africa. Our termites will also move in there and hopefully build a new termite mound. The indoor aviary will remain accessible, allowing a 'close-up' experience of the African savannah."

Source and pictures : Tierpark Bern on Instagram

 

Last Friday a Dalmatian pelican (Pelecanus crispus) escaped, luckly he was quickly caught with the help of the Sanitätspolizei von Schutz und Rettung Bern.

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Instagram of Tierpark Bern (24/02/2024)

 

Recently the zoo send all their Eastern Atlantic harbour seals (Phoca vitulina vitulina), 5 animals, to Borås Djurpark in Sweden. The harbour seal enclosure in Bern will be renovated and reopened in 2025.

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Instagram of Tierpark Bern (18/04/2024)