Survival Plans

The Birmingham Zoo has joined with the American Association of Zoos and Aquariums and Zoos around the world in maintaining Species Survival Plans ® (SSPs). An SSP is a cooperative breeding and conservation program. Here’s a list of some other SSP animals currently at the Birmingham Zoo:

Birds Included in AZA-Managed Programs:

• Green Aracari
• Bearded Barbet
• Buff-Crested Bustard
• Kori Bustard
• Red-Crested Cardinal
• Double-Wattled Cassowary
• Snowy-Headed Robin Chat
• Blue Crane
• Red-Crowned Crane
• White-Naped Crane
• West African Crowned Crane
• Sunbittern
• Spotted Dikkop
• Masked Lapwing
• Black-Naped Fruit Dove
• Jambu Fruit Dove
• White-Throated Ground Dove
• American Flamingo
• Green Woodhoopoe
• Tawny Frogmouth
• African Pygmy Goose
• Red-Billed Hornbill
• Southern Ground Hornbill
• Speckled Mousebird
• Plush-Crested Jay
• Laughing Kookaburra
• White-Crested Laughing Thrush
• Red-Billed Leiothrix
• Blue-Crowned Motmot
• Spectacled Owl
• Pheasant Pigeon
• Nicobar Pigeon
• Victoria Crowned Pigeon
• Greater Roadrunner
• Blue-Bellied Roller
• Crested Screamer
• Secretary Bird
• Roseate Spoonbill
• Emerald Starling
• Violet-Backed Starling
• White Stork
• Marbled Teal
• Elegant Crested Tinamou
• Chestnut-mandibled Toucan
• Lady Ross’s Turaco
• Beautiful Fruit Dove
• Cinereous Vulture
• White-headed Buffalo Weaver
• Crested Wood Partridge

Reptiles Included in AZA-Managed Programs:

• Eastern Indigo Snake
• Pancake Tortoise
• Egyptian Tortoise
• Radiated Tortoise
• Chinese Three-Striped Box Turtle
• Coahuilan Box Turtle
• Prehensile Tailed Skink
• Caiman Lizard
• Mexican Beaded Lizard
• San Esteban Island Chuckwalla
• Komodo Dragon

Mammals Included in AZA-Managed Programs:

• Black Footed Cat
• Bobcat
• African Lion
• Pallas’s Cat
• Serval
• Crowned Lemur
• Jaguar
• Lar Gibbon
• Black Howler
• Squirrel Monkey
• DeBrazza’s Monkey
• Sumatran Orangutan
• Black-handed Spider Monkey
• Cotton-top Tamarin
• Ringtail Lemur
• Prevost’s SquirreL
• African Elephant
• Reticulated Giraffe
• Fennec Fox
• California Sea Lion
• Red Panda
• Hoffman’s Two-toed Sloth
• Plains Zebra
• North American River Otter
• Giant River Otter
• Red-flanked Duiker
• African Crested Porcupine
• White-nosed Coati

Amphibians Included in AZA-Managed Programs:

• Dusky Gopher Frog