![]() ![]() Conservationists around the world are monitoring populations and implementing measures to conserve vultures and their habitats. Vultures play a vital role in the environment by cleaning up carcasses and preventing the spread of disease. These birds are declining due to poisoning from feeding on medicated cattle carcasses, power line collisions and loss of food and habitat. Of the 23 species of vultures in the world, 11 are currently threatened. Vultures are vanishing around the world at an alarming rate. Like all vultures, it is a scavenger and is adept at finding dead animals even in dense forests. The king vulture: This colorful bird makes its home in the tropical rainforests of Central and South America. ![]() For more information, visit, /stlzoo, /stlzoo, /stlzootube, /stlzoo. This summer, the Saint Louis Zoo is open from Monday through Thursday from 8 a.m. In addition, a white-headed buffalo weaver hatched on July 17 and is also being cared for behind the scenes. The Congo peafowl from the Central Congolian lowland forests of the Democratic Republic of the Congo is the national bird of that country. Two endangered Congo peafowl recently hatched on July 5 and 8 at the Bird House and are being cared for in the private area. Last year’s chick was the first for the Zoo and only the second recorded breeding of the species in the United States. The Saint Louis Zoo is one of only two Association of Zoos and Aquarium (AZA) institutions to ever breed the horned guan in the U.S. The chick is being cared for in a private area of the Bird House. On June 1, a critically endangered horned guan hatched-this is the second offspring for this pair (the first hatched last year). With a strikingly long-tail, this large bird from northwestern Mexico is the watchdog of the forest with its loud, raucous call. Visitors might catch a glimpse of the chick when the parents are feeding it. They recently fledged the nest and can be seen in their habitat.Ī Collie’s jay chick hatched on July 5 and is in the nest with its parents. This year, for the first time ever at the Zoo, they produced two chicks on March 28 and March 30-a rare occurrence for this species. For the third year in a row, the rhinoceros hornbill pair in the Bird House nested.
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