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Amazonian Motmot

Exhibit Islands
Classification: Animals, Birds
Conservation Status: least concern

Azure-WInged Macaw

Exhibit Islands
Classification: Animals, Birds
Conservation Status: least concern

Baer’s Pochard

Exhibit Steller’s Sea Eagle Aviary
Classification: Animals, Birds
Conservation Status: critical

Black Swan

Exhibit Australia
Classification: Animals, Birds
Conservation Status: least concern

Black Vulture

Classification: Animals, Birds
Conservation Status: least concern

Blue-Faced Honeyeater

Exhibit Islands
Classification: Animals, Birds
Conservation Status: least concern

Cabot’s Tragopan

Exhibit Islands Pavilion Forest Bird Trail
Classification: Animals, Birds
Conservation Status: vulnerable

Cardinal Lory

Exhibit Islands
Classification: Animals, Birds
Conservation Status: least concern

photo - red capped cardinal, with black feathers on back, white breast feathers, head has red feathers, sitting on a branch, background is green long stem fronds

Cardinal, Red-capped

Exhibit Islands
Classification: Animals, Birds
Conservation Status: least concern

Cardinal, Red-crested

Exhibit Islands
Classification: Animals, Birds
Conservation Status: least concern

Chestnut-backed Thrush

Exhibit Islands Pavilion Forest Bird Trail
Classification: Birds
Conservation Status: near threatened

Coconut Lorikeet

Exhibit Lorikeet Landing
Classification: Animals, Birds
Conservation Status: least concern

East African Crowned Crane

Crane, East African Crowned

Exhibit Africa
Classification: Birds
Conservation Status: endangered

Crane, Red-crowned

Exhibit Glacier Run
Classification: Animals, Birds
Conservation Status: endangered

Wattled Crane at the Louisville Zoo

Crane, Wattled

Exhibit Africa
Classification: Animals, Birds
Conservation Status: vulnerable

Crested Coua

Exhibit Islands
Classification: Animals, Birds
Conservation Status: least concern

Crested Wood Partridge

Exhibit Islands Pavilion
Classification: Animals, Birds
Conservation Status: near threatened

photo - Beautiful Fruit Dove with full frontal view, feathers are colored, orange, purple, green, breast is all white, with purple patch on front of head, beak is yellow, sitting on branch, with background of green leaves

Dove, Beautiful Fruit

Exhibit Islands
Classification: Animals, Birds
Conservation Status: least concern

photo - Emerald Dove, with brown breast, head feather, green wing feathers, with orange bill, sitting on a branch

Dove, Grey-capped Emerald

Exhibit Islands
Classification: Animals, Birds
Conservation Status: least concern

photo - Mariana Fruit Dove, with variety of very colorful feathers, green, orange, blue, brown, neck is fluffed out feathers with purple forehead, rest head is white, sitting on a tree branch

Dove, Mariana Fruit

Exhibit Islands
Classification: Animals, Birds
Conservation Status: near threatened

Eagle, Bald

Exhibit Cats of the Americas
Classification: Animals, Birds
Conservation Status: least concern

Eagle at the Louisville Zoo

Eagle, Steller’s Sea

Exhibit Glacier Run
Classification: Birds
Conservation Status: vulnerable

Eastern Screech Owl

Exhibit Meta
Classification: Animals, Birds
Conservation Status: least concern

Emu

Exhibit Australia
Classification: Birds
Conservation Status: least concern

Flamingo, Chilean

Exhibit South America
Classification: Animals, Birds
Conservation Status: near threatened

photo - Cape Barren Goose with all grey feathers tinted with shades of light brown color, beak is lime color with black spot, tip of beak is black.

Goose, Cape Barren

Exhibit Australia
Classification: Animals, Birds
Conservation Status: least concern

Green-Winged Macaw

Exhibit Islands
Classification: Animals, Birds
Conservation Status: least concern

Hawk, Hawaiian

Classification: Animals, Birds
Conservation Status: near threatened

photo - hooded Pita bird, body has variety of green colors over all, with tint of blue on wing, head, neck is black, sitting on branch.

Hooded Pitta

Exhibit Islands
Classification: Animals, Birds
Conservation Status: least concern

Inka Tern at the Louisville Zoo

Inca Tern

Exhibit Islands
Classification: Animals, Birds
Conservation Status: near threatened

Laughing Kookaburra

Exhibit Islands
Classification: Animals, Birds
Conservation Status: least concern

photo - Red billed Leothrix bird - with gray back feathers, and wing has colors of green, red, orange, head is green, breast is yellow with orange tint, sitting on a branch

Leiothrix, Red-billed

Exhibit Islands
Classification: Animals, Birds
Conservation Status: least concern

Lesser Sulphur-crested Cockatoo

Classification: Animals, Birds
Conservation Status: least concern

Linnaeus’s Two-Toes Sloth

Classification: Animals, Birds, Mammal
Conservation Status: least concern

Lorikeet, Rainbow

Exhibit Lorikeet Landing
Classification: Birds
Conservation Status: least concern

Macaw, Hyacinth

Exhibit Islands
Classification: Animals, Birds
Conservation Status: vulnerable

Madagascar Ibis

Exhibit Islands
Classification: Animals, Birds
Conservation Status: near threatened

Madagascar Teal

Exhibit Islands
Classification: Animals, Birds
Conservation Status: endangered

Mandarin Duck

Exhibit Islands
Classification: Animals, Birds
Conservation Status: least concern

Mountain Pigeon

Exhibit Islands
Classification: Animals, Birds
Conservation Status: least concern

photo - Myna bird, all white, with black tips on wings, tail feathers, has blue patch covering eye area, sitting on branch

Myna, Bali

Exhibit Islands
Classification: Animals, Birds
Conservation Status: critical

Northern Bald Ibis

Exhibit Islands
Classification: Animals, Birds
Conservation Status: endangered

Barn Owl at the Louisville Zoo

Owl, Barn

Classification: Animals, Birds
Conservation Status: least concern

photo - head shot of great horned owl, full face, pointed black, brown feathered ears, face trimmed in brown feathers around eyes, beak, yellow eyes are large with black pupils, grey feathers around beak which is curved, black and very sharp, neck has white line of feathers, rest of head is black, grey, brown feathers, he has a very contrary stare on his face

Owl, Great Horned

Classification: Animals, Birds
Conservation Status: least concern

photo - all white feathered pelican, with very long yellow bill, sitting in the pond.

Pelican, Dalmatian

Exhibit Flamingo
Classification: Animals, Birds
Conservation Status: near threatened

Penguin, African

Exhibit Islands
Classification: Birds
Conservation Status: endangered

photo of lil grey penguin, has bluish, black, grey feathers with brownish white breast feathers

Penguin, Little

Exhibit Penguin Cove
Classification: Birds
Conservation Status: least concern

Peregrine Falcon

Classification: Animals, Birds
Conservation Status: least concern

photo - Green naped Pigeon, red back and wing feathers, with purple/black breast feathers, and head has same color with red eye, red bill sitting on plant leaf, with green leaf background

Pigeon, Green-naped Pheasant

Exhibit Islands
Classification: Animals, Birds
Conservation Status: least concern

photo - Nicobar Pigeon with grey feathers from head to neck, to breast area of body, to tail with wings colored with tints of yellow, ornge, red, green feathers sitting on branch,

Pigeon, Nicobar

Exhibit Islands
Classification: Animals, Birds
Conservation Status: near threatened

Pied Imperial Pigeon at the Louisville Zoo

Pigeon, Pied Imperial

Exhibit Islands
Classification: Animals, Birds
Conservation Status: least concern

photo - Victoria Crown Pigeon with all blue color feathers, with spindly long fluff feathers with white tis on each one, has red eye sitting on branch, with brown branches, green leaves in background.

Pigeon, Victoria Crowned

Exhibit Islands
Classification: Animals, Birds
Conservation Status: near threatened

Red Lory

Exhibit Lorikeet Landing
Classification: Animals, Birds
Conservation Status: least concern

Red-Breasted Goose

Exhibit Glacier Run or Islands Pavilion
Classification: Animals, Birds
Conservation Status: vulnerable

Red-Legged Seriema

Exhibit Islands
Classification: Animals, Birds
Conservation Status: least concern

Red-Tailed Hawk

Classification: Animals, Birds
Conservation Status: least concern

Saffron Finch

Exhibit Islands
Classification: Animals, Birds
Conservation Status: least concern

Sandhill Crane

Exhibit North America
Classification: Animals, Birds
Conservation Status: least concern

Silver-Beaked Tanager

Exhibit Islands
Classification: Animals, Birds
Conservation Status: least concern

Southern Cassowary

Exhibit Islands Pavilion
Classification: Animals, Birds
Conservation Status: vulnerable

Southern Screamer

Exhibit Islands or South America
Classification: Animals, Birds
Conservation Status: data deficient

Speckled Pigeon

Exhibit Islands
Classification: Animals, Birds
Conservation Status: least concern

Spotted Whistling Duck

Exhibit Islands Pavilion
Classification: Animals, Birds
Conservation Status: least concern

Spur-winging Lapwing

Exhibit Islands Pavilion Forest Bird Trail
Classification: Birds
Conservation Status: least concern

photo - Golden breasted starling, with blue wing feathers, yellow/gold breasted feathers, head is also blue/grey tint colors, with brown patch at neck area of chest, sitting on branch

Starling, Golden-breasted

Exhibit Islands
Classification: Animals, Birds
Conservation Status: least concern

Stella’s Lorikeet

Exhibit Islands
Classification: Animals, Birds
Conservation Status: least concern

Oriental White Stork at the Louisville Zoo

Stork, Oriental

Exhibit Islands
Classification: Animals, Birds
Conservation Status: endangered

White Stork at the Louisville Zoo

Stork, White

Exhibit Africa
Classification: Animals, Birds
Conservation Status: least concern

Sulawesi Ground Dove

Exhibit Islands
Classification: Animals, Birds
Conservation Status: least concern

Sunbittern

Exhibit Meta
Classification: Animals, Birds
Conservation Status: least concern

photo - Blue Grey Tanager, with variety of light to dark, blue colored feathers over whole body, wings and head, sitting on branch

Tanager, Blue-gray

Exhibit Islands
Classification: Animals, Birds
Conservation Status: least concern

Tawny Frogmouth

Exhibit Australia
Classification: Animals, Birds
Conservation Status: least concern

Toucan, Toco

Exhibit Americas
Classification: Animals, Birds
Conservation Status: least concern

Vulture Griffon at the Louisville Zoo

Vulture, Ruppell’s Griffon

Exhibit Africa
Classification: Animals, Birds
Conservation Status: endangered

photo - Turkey Vulture - facing camera, head and body is black feather, face is grey, pink colors, tip of the bill is white.

Vulture, Turkey

Classification: Animals, Birds
Conservation Status: least concern

White-Crested Laughing Thrush

Exhibit Islands
Classification: Animals, Birds
Conservation Status: least concern

White-Throated Ground Dove

Exhibit Islands
Classification: Animals, Birds
Conservation Status: near threatened

Yellow Billed Stork

Exhibit Islands
Classification: Animals, Birds
Conservation Status: least concern