Create a non-aviary birds pack

AlexSea

AlexSea
We all want more birds, am I right? Aviaries are probably the most requested feature at this point. But what about the other birds? The birds that don't need aviaries don't get nearly as much attention. Let's fix that by making our own ground dwelling birds pack. Feel free to make it an animal pack, or a scenery pack if you can come up with a good building theme. Here's mine;
  • Secretary Bird
  • Southern Rockhopper Penguin
  • Emu
  • North Island Brown Kiwi
  • Golden Pheasant
  • Greater Rhea
  • South Island Takahe
  • Grey Crowned Crane
 

Antimony96

Antimony96
1. Emu
2. Secretary bird
3. Grey crowned crane
4. Helmeted guineafowl
5. Egyptian goose
6. Mandarin duck
7. White stork
8. American flamingo (clone instead of an exhibit animal)

Went with birds that are both common in zoo collections and cover all the major bases. For eight alternates (in an ideal world I'd like both sets of these, just because of how poor bird representation is in PZ):

1. Greater rhea
2. Marabou stork
3. Demoiselle's crane
4. Black swan
5. Golden pheasant
6. Red-breasted goose
7. Kori bustard
8. Green peafowl
 

Cynogale bennettii II

Cynogale bennettii II
1. Ocellated turkey (North America)
2. Bar-headed goose (Asia)
3. Great white pelican (Africa, Asia, Europe)
4. Southern screamer (South America)
5. Victoria crowned pigeon (Oceania)
6. Southern ground hornbill (Africa)
7. Emu (Oceania)

I have chosen all of these species for versatility - could they be kept in either walkthrough enclosures or mixed-species displays, as well as standalone enclosures. I have also made sure that my list represents six different continents.
 

NachoB

NachoB
OK. Me likes this.

1. Emu
2. Secretary bird
3. Grey crowned crane
4. Golden pheasant
5. Mandarin duck
6. Scarlet ibis
7. Roseatte spoonbill
8. Marabou Stork or Shoebill

So many options though D:

wall of text and long list incoming

Helmeted guineafowl, vulturine guineafowl, western capercaillie, wild turkey, greater roadrunner, saddle-billed stork, greater rhea, mute swan, brown pelican, atlantic puffin, blue footed bobby, king either, mallard duck, canada goose, nene goose, rockhopper penguin, adelie penguin, blue fairy penguin, seriema, curassow, greater or indian bustard, great prairie chicken, southern screamer, african sacred ibis, northern bald ibis, brown kiwi, himalayan monal, reeve's pheasant, california quail, chuckar partridge, painted stork, great blue heron, great egret, gray heron, victoria's crowned dove, american flamingo, andean flamingo, damoiselle crane, watled crane, blue crane, temmink's tragopan, burrowing owl, maleo, hammerkop

:)
 

Baryonix82

Baryonix82
  1. Ocellated turkey
  2. Roseate Spoonbill
  3. Helmeted guineafowl
  4. Shoebill
  5. African pygmy goose
  6. Cantabrian capercaillie
  7. Southern ground hornbill
  8. Peruvian pelican
 

Spiderhawk

Spiderhawk
NA: Greater Roadrunner
SA: Greater Rhea
EU: Mute Swan
AF: Shoebill
Asia: Golden pheasant
Australia: Emu

I’m all for another flamingo and crane but I would prefer to give us 1 type per bird.
 

KönigDerKaffeebohnen

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  • Black Swan (Australia, goes well as a general park bird or into themed wetland sections)
  • White Stork (Europe, Africa, Asia, the standard Stork, fills the niche of a big bird for multiple continents while also looking very destinct in white, black and red. Also one of the classic european fable animals as Adebar)
  • Bar-Headed Goose (Asia, one if the few good candidates from the Central Asian steps while also being prominent in India and parts of South East Asia, most common wild goose in the EAZA)
  • Helmeted Guinafowl (African, pretty small birds that are great for mixed habitats, be it with flying birds in aviarys or with larger ungulates. Also a possible petting zoo animal)
  • Greater Rhea (South America, one of the basic SA animals in most zoos, super common and typically a strong back bone for south american areas and mixed habitats)
  • Golden Pheasent (Asia, Can we pls habe Pheasents Frontier pretty pls?)
  • Victoria Crowned Pidgeon (Oceania, beautiful blue bird thats near omnipresent free walking in tropical houses. Would go very well with the cassowary and a future tree kangaroo in a themed area)
 

becks474

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Emu
Kiwi
Shoebill
Secretary Bird
Great White Pelican
Egyptian Goose
Western Capercaillie
Eurasian Griffon
(I do not see an exhibit within this pack so I picked 8 animals)
 

Pentoleaf

Pentoleaf
Australia - Emu. One of THE most common zoo animals and one that I will be incredibly disappointed if we don't get before support ends
Asia - Any pheasant species. Golden, silver, green peafowl, monal... there's a lot to choose from. Alternatively, the mandarin duck.
Africa - Secretary Bird. Need that ZT2 callback.
Europe - Mute Swan. Essential for any classical-style pond or garden.
Americas - Roseate Spoonbill.
Americas - Occelated Turkey
Oceania - North Island Brown Kiwi
 

arafan

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  • Pelican (I would take any, but the great white would probably be the best, as it would cover three continents)
  • Mandarin Duck (one of the most colorful duck species, would add some diversity to Asia)
  • Pheasant (I would take any species, but I'm specially keen on a tragopan, as I absolutely love their courtship. Would also add diversity to Asia)
  • Emu
  • Black swan (preferred this over the mute, as it would be a nice touch to our Astrialia sections)
  • Secretary bird
  • Guineafowl (Vuturine or helmeted)
  • Curassow (Northern horned or a red-billed would be my preferences, would add a nice touch to our South American houses)

I've chosen 8 species, as I don't think we will ever get a bird in an exhibit. But if we ever get one, I belive it would be a hummingbird or even something like a tawny frogmouth. North America hasn't gotten any representation, as I rarely have seen these species in zoos.
 

jcp011c

jcp011c
Emu
Kiwi
Little Blue Penguin
Shoebill Stork
Secretary Bird
Scarlet Ibis
Roseate Spoonbill
Mute Swan

If the first three don’t count since they are completely flightless birds, there’s also the Greater Roadrunner, one of the Ground Hornbills and the Oscillated Turkey.
 
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AlexSea

AlexSea
jcp011c said:
Emu
Kiwi
Little Blue Penguin
Shoebill Stork
Secretary Bird
Scarlet Ibis
Roseate Spoonbill
Mute Swan

If the first three don’t count since they are completely flightless birds, there’s also the Greater Roadrunner, one of the Ground Hornbills and the Oscillated Turkey.
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Oh no, flightless birds absolutely count. Five of the eight birds in my own list are completely flightless.
 

nutrit

nutrit
Ground birds animal pack:

1. Emu (Australia)
2. Secretary bird (Africa)
3. Gray crowned crane (Africa)
4. Kiwi (New Zealand)
5. Shoebill (Africa)
6. Great white pelican (Europe, Asia, Africa)
7. Malayan Argus pheasant (Asia)
8. Great bustard (Europe, Asia and small part of North Africa)

Honorbale mentions:
1. Black Swan
2. Saddle billed Stork
3. Canada Goose
4. Ground hornbill
5. Roseate Spoonbill
6. Scarlet Ibis
7. Guinea fowl
8. Great egret

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TheDuckKnight

TheDuckKnight
1. A DUCK (Top 3 choices would be Mallard, Wood Duck, or Mandarin Duck)
2. North Island Brown Kiwi
3. Rockhopper Penguin
4. Brown Pelican - really any pelican species would do
5. Scarlet Ibis
6. Eastern Wild Turkey
7. Roadrunner
8. Helmeted Guinea Fowl

Runner-Ups: Roseate Spoonbill, Black Swan, Western Capercaillie, Emu
 

peafowl

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Mandarin Duck
Temmincks Tragopan
Takahe
Roseate Spoonbill
any Heron
any Grouse
Green Junglefowl
Northern Ground Hornbill
 
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