ANIMALS ON HABITAT

June 3, 2026

Now that Summer is here, it is a great time to visit your Birmingham Zoo. Come see why it was named Attraction of the Year by the Greater Birmingham Convention & Visitors Bureau!

Reptiles

Swamp – Alligators

Tortoise Barn – Aldabra tortoise, radiated tortoise

Stream – alligator snapping turtle, golden shiner, largemouth bass, sunfish

Reptile Building West – cave snake, Asian giant toad, blood python, Philippine sail-finned lizard, Mexican beaded lizard, Chinese three-striped box turtle, yellow spotted monitor

Reptile Building Center – pancake tortoise, amazon tree boa, Coahuilan box turtle, eastern glass lizard, indigo snake, Egyptian tortoise, emerald monitor, emerald tree boa, hingeback tortoise, blue tongued skink, prehensile tailed skink, pygmy rattlesnake, shingleback skink

Reptile Building East – bristlenosed catfish, caiman lizard, cottonmouth, desert tortoise, spiny-tailed iguana, eastern diamondback rattlesnake, Kaup’s caecilian, timber rattlesnake, bumblebee dart frog

Komodo dragon

Birds

North – buff-crested bustard, crested coua, red-billed hornbill, snowy-headed robin chat, sunbittern, violet-backed starling

Center – African pygmy goose, bettong, masked lapwing, pied imperial pigeon, red-crested turaco, roadrunner, snowy-headed robin chat, speckled mousebird, white-throated ground dove

South – blue faced honeyeater, green aracari, green-naped pheasant pigeon, tawny frogmouth

East – Amazonian motmot, beautiful fruit dove, green aracari, jambu fruit dove, red-billed hornbill, red-crested cardinal, tawny frogmouth, Victoria crowned pigeon, white-crested laughing thrush

Kiwanis – cape thick-knee, red crested turaco, blue-bellied roller, emerald starling, green woodhoopoe, snowy-headed robin chat, white-headed buffalo weaver

Large birds – secretary bird, southern ground hornbill, white-naped crane, black crowned crane

Flamingo, black necked swan, kori bustard, Nicobar pigeon, red-crowned crane, cinereous vulture, rainbow lorikeet, coconut lorikeet, marigold lorikeet, scarlet-breasted lorikeet, barred owl, blue duiker

Africa

African elephant, black rhino, giraffe, plains zebra, ostrich, red-flanked duiker, eastern bongo

Primates

Black-handed spider monkey, crowned lemur, cotton-top tamarin, De Brazza’s monkey, squirrel monkey, cape porcupine, lionfish, black howler monkey, giant anteater, jaguar, giant otter, taveta golden weaver, orangutan

Predators

Lion, Pallas’ cat, coyote, fennec fox, New Caledonian giant gecko, Prevost’s squirrel, red-tailed boa, red panda, ocelot, arboreal mantella, giant day gecko, day gecko, mossy-tailed leaf gecko, golden mantella, Linne’s two-toed sloth, binturong

Wilds

Barn – dwarf Nigerian goat, Nubian goat, blackbelly sheep, gulf coast sheep, Juliana pig, chickens

Wilds – black bears, turkey, gopher tortoise, indigo snake, Perdido Key beach mouse, black vulture, red-tailed hawk, North American river otter, sandhill crane, golden eagle

Cougar Crossing – bobcat, cougar