New
Arrivals at the
Baby
Watch 2009:
Pere
David Deer: Male fawn born
Domestic
Chickens: Hatched April 9, 2009.
Mouflon
Sheep: Male
lamb born
Female born May 2, 2009.
Lamb born
Lamb born
Dall Sheep: A
white-morph male lamb born
Pygmy
Goat: Twin males born May 16,
2009.
Kid born
Wapiti: Born
Mallard
Ducks: Ducklings began hatching
Pronghorn: Baby born at the end of May.
Mountain
Goat: Male kid born
Miniature
Horse: Female born
American
Badgers: Twins born March 20, 2009. Now on display.
Caribou: Baby born in 2009
Cougar: Babies born in early
August 2009.
Peafowl: Peachicks started hatching
in August.
Bison: Baby Bison born August
25, 2009.
New
Arrivals:
-Two
Lions arrived at the Zoo in November 2008.
They are now on display.
-Two
domestic Ferrets (currently off display) arrived in April.
-Royal
Python donated on May 20, 2009 (currently off display).
-Three
Cougar babies orphaned in Cypress Hills Interprovincial Park arrived in June.
They are now on display in the Kinsmen
Children’s Zoo.
Wildlife
Watch 2009:
Notably
absent in 2009: There are neither Coots nor Ruddy Ducks this year…
Wildlife
spotted at the Forestry Farm in 2009:
Coyote
Muskrat
Raccoon
Red
Squirrel (with babies)
Skunk
Tundra
Swans (arrived
American
Robin (including one albino)
Merlin
Canada
Goose (Goslings hatched May 16)
Black-capped
Chickadee
Northern
Flicker
Common
Grackle
Red-breasted
Nuthatch
Magpie
Raven
Crow
Blue
Jay
Kildeer
Yellow
Warbler
Yellow-rumped Warbler.
Red-tailed
Hawk.
Red-winged Blackbird.
Swainson
Hawk.
Tree
Swallow.
Mallard
Ducks (Ducklings hatched June 3)
Eared Grebe.
Long-tailed
Duck.
European House Sparrow.
Mosquito
(adult and larva)
Midge
larva
Fresh-water
shrimp (side-swimmer or scud)
Leach
Damselfly
(adult and larva)
Dragonfly
(adult)
Caddisfly
larva
Water
Boatman
Water
Mite
Whirligig
Beetle
Diving
Beetle