Even worse? Saw this on my first zoo visit around Wednesday last week. When I went back on sunday after there had been a storm the day before? Nest was totally gone. Poor little things had tried so hard too. I sat there and watched daddy bird bring a new stick every minute or so, only half being accepted by momma for the nest where she carefully slotted them into place. Then they spend some time hooting and nibbling eachother all sweetly. Better luck next time darlings. But maybe not above a wild cat enclosure next time lol
Note, probably wasn't the zoo staff removing the nest. There were other nests we found around the zoo, mostly welcoming swallows, but we did spot a black bird nest with a half grown scruff baby in it. And over by the tamarins was another pigeon nest with two nearly fully grown squab walking about. So I think this one was just bad luck after a wind storm
Servals... the african cat known for being able to leap straight up to catch birds mid-flight.
A big part of their purpose in life is to become food for other creatures. Nature's hamburger.
Ham-bird-ger.
Can relate. Have guinea pigs. š
Free enrichment
The chicks just get a Spartan upbringing
A nest above the habitat for cats that're 90% legs and known for bitchslapping birds out of the air. Yep, 10/10 nest, no notes
Thanks for sharing this, Iām about to get an annual pass for Auckland Zoo so I look forward to monitoring the various nest situations throughout!
Have they rebuilt?
I am guessing the serval keeps the pigeon around as emergency snack.
The bird's favorite song is Welcome to Japari Park
I've always found it fun looking out for wild animals at the zoo at least when they don't make life hellish for the exotics. Plenty of pigeon nests on the framing of enclosures and the occasional rat, squirrel, or lizard scampering about. The highlight was a Florida monkey sanctuary where during the main show with a troop of semi-wild macaques a big male green iguana just lumbering in and started eating the monkey's food despite them yelling at it and slapping it. This wasn't awful because the monkeys had several acres to forage and were fed regularly. The worst I've seen was a different Florida zoo that was infested with rats, the two toed sloth couldn't even eat since by the time he got to his food the swarm had already not only eaten it all but licked the bowl clean.