The Southeast Asian songbird crisis involves thousands of passerines taken from the wild to be used in singing competitions, with large prize funds available. This is essential research to ensure that artificial nest sites provided have a positive impact on the population. Numbers of mosquitos, midges and ticks if higher in artificial nests, could lead to higher mortality rates in African penguin chicks due to increased exposure to blood borne diseases. Research by Steklenbosch Uni in South Africa funded by Birdworld has been looking into whether artificial nest box materials bolster or reduce biting insect populations. In-situ wildlife conservation methods need to be continually evaluated to ensure they are the most efficient. Keeping different subspecies bloodlines unmixed in captivity is vital to maintaining populations which are more consistent with wild populations. Past youngsters raised here have been sent to Dublin and Paignton zoo in the UK and to Chorzow Zoo in Poland as part of a European Endangered Species Breeding Programme. Four aviaries were built in 20 to help provide a suitable and enriching habitat for pairs to live and breed in. Yellow crested cockatoos, including the distinct Citron crested, are one of Birdworld’s priority breeding programmes. There have already been 23 chicks raised from these individuals which may help to bolster wild populations in the future. Funding has also helped provide veterinary care and will continue to offer husbandry support over the next few years. The Birdworld Conservation Fund has helped fund the compensation of legal wildlife traders for 113 wild caught birds. The species also suffers from anthropogenic impacts including invasive plants and animals, domestic animal predation and the pet trade. This endangered bird from the Solomon and Vanuatu Islands has been suffering from local volcanic and hurricane activity, with an estimated 15 birds remaining in the wild in 2017. This is the biggest sea bird rescue in the region for 20 years when a major oil spill impacted 20000 African Penguins.īirdworld currently houses the two related Bank cormorants in our Penguin Beach exhibit. The conservation fund was able to provide funds for this large-scale emergency relief project by SANCCOB to aid in husbandry and veterinary care before the birds eventual re-release. The chicks were rescued at a very young age and many in a critical condition.
1,700 endangered Cape cormorant chicks were abandoned at Robben Island and Jutten Island, just west of South Africa in the beginning of 2021, potentially due to a lack of food caused by overfishing.
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