New
Arrivals at the
Baby Watch 2010:
(updated July 27, 2010)
March
2010: Four baby African
Pygmy Hedgehogs born (not on public display).
April
25, 2010: Mouflon
lamb born.
April
26, 2010: Three Mouflon lambs born (one set of twins).
April
30, 2010: Two Bighorn lambs
born
May
27, 2010: Bison calf born.
May
04, 2010: Dall
lamb born.
May
11, 2010: Bighorn lamb born.
May
12, 2010: Canada Geese
goslings began hatching.
May
21, 2010: Bighorn lamb born.
May
24, 2010: Two Mountain Goat
kids born.
May
29, 2010: Two Wapiti born.
June
1, 2010: Mallard ducklings
began hatching.
June
02, 2010: Wapiti born.
June
03, 2010: Twin
African Pygmy Goat kids born.
June
3, 2010: Mountain Goat kid
born.
June
07, 2010: Bighorn lamb born.
June
8, 2010: Two Sika fawns born.
June
10, 2010: African Pygmy Goat
kid born.
June
13, 2010: African Pygmy Goat
kid born.
June
15, 2010: Mouflon
lamb born.
June
21, 2010: Two Fallow fawns
born.
June 24,
2010: Fallow fawn born.
June
25, 2010: Caribou born.
Late
June: Three (possibly
four) African Pygmy Hedgehogs born (not on public display).
July
06, 2010: Fallow fawn born.
July
8, 2010: Peachicks (baby
peafowl or peacocks) began hatching.
July
16, 2010: Alpaca born.
Other
notes:
The
Burrowing Owls have been taken off exhibit due to predators gaining access to
enclosure (mid-July)
The
Grey Wolves are now back on exhibit July 5, 2010.
The
Snowy Owls have been taken off exhibit during the West Nile “season”.
The
Butterfly Interpretive Display is now open.
A City of Saskatoon Interpreter (not Saskatoon Zoo Society) is at the
display on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday in the afternoon.
Two
Fallow Deer purchased by zoo on May 22, 2010.
Two Sika Deer purchased by
zoo on May 22, 2010.
Great
Horned Owl donated to zoo on May4, 2010.
Steelhead
Trout purchased for Kinsmen Children’s Zoo on April 27, 2010.
Wildlife Watch 2010:
Mammals:
Deer
Mouse
Raccoon
(tracks)
Red Fox
(tracks and scat) –Fox kits spotted living in the Park.
Red
Squirrel
Richardson
Ground Squirrel (first up March 26)
Skunk
Snowshoe
Hare
Vole
species
Weasel
species
Birds:
American
Crow
American
Goldfinch
American
Robin
American
Widgeon
Black-capped
Chickadee
Blue
Jay
Brewer’s
Blackbird
Canada
Goose (first arrival March 23)
Clay-coloured Sparrow (Saskatoon Natural Grasslands)
Common
Grackle
Common
Mallard
Eastern
Kingbird
Gray
Catbird
Great
Horned Owl (first sighting March 31)
Horned
Grebe
House
Sparrow
Killdeer
Mallard
Ducks
Mourning
Dove
Northern
Flicker
Red-Breasted
Nuthatch
Red-winged
Blackbird
Ring-billed
Gull
Sandhill
Cranes (overhead)
Slate-coloured Junco
Sparrow
species
Swainson Hawk
Tundra
Swan (arrival in mid-April). Three wild ones this year.
Western
Meadowlark (Saskatoon Natural Grasslands)
White-throated
Sparrow
Yellow
Warbler
Insects
& Other Arthopods:
Blue species (Butterfly)
Cabbage
White species (butterfly)
Damselfly
Larva (May 17)
Dock
Spider
Dragonfly
adult
Mosquito
larva (May17) Mosquito adults
Mourning
Cloak Butterfly (March 31)
Phantom
Midge (Midge larva)
Side-swimming
Shrimp / Scud
Sulfer
species (butterfly)
Water
Boatman Beetle
Water
Mite
Water
Tiger (Diving Beetle larva)
Whirligig
Beetle species
Daphnia
Cocepods
Other:
Earthworm
species
Leech
Tiger
Salamander
unknown
minnow species