The takahe, with its striking blue-green plumage and stout ... it represents an incredible recovery for a bird once presumed extinct. The takahe is currently listed as “Endangered” on the ...
As more and more "historical" checklists are added to the platform, birds we've lost now mingle with those still hanging on.
It’s been 35 years since this “cerulean blue and cinnamon” colored bird has flown free in the wild. The Guam kingfisher was deemed extinct in the wild in 1988. Twenty-nine of them were ...
The sihek is native to Guam and had been extinct in the ... "Raising these birds from tiny helpless chicks to fully fledged adults, with their beautiful blue and orange plumage, is a long process ...
An international effort to save the species from being lost forever has seen three of these extinct-in-the-wild birds move to ...
The blue-billed curassow is the world's most threatened species of cracid, a family of beautiful crested game birds found primarily in Latin America. This large, mainly black bird is the only curassow ...
The stunning blue-grey parrot called the Spix’s Macau (Cyanopsitta spixii) is the rarest bird of the wild that was for over a ...