Birds > Passerines
Stresemann’s Bristlefront (Merulaxis stresemanni) is arguably the single rarest and most precarious bird species on Earth. Known to science from only a handful of specimens collected in the 19th and mid-20th centuries, this bizarre, ground-dwelling tapaculo was...
Birds > Podicipediformes
The Hooded Grebe (Podiceps gallardoi), known locally in Spanish as the ‘Macá Tobiano’, is one of the most visually stunning, elusive, and critically endangered waterbirds in the Americas. Discovered by science only in 1974 on the desolate volcanic basalt...
Birds > Anseriformes
The Madagascar Pochard (Aythya innotata), known locally as the ‘Fotsy Maso’ (White Eye), is the rarest duck in the world. Declared completely extinct in the late 1990s after decades without a verified sighting on its historic stronghold of Lake Alaotra, a...
Birds > Pelecaniformes
The White-bellied Heron (Ardea insignis), also known as the Imperial Heron, is the second-largest heron on Earth and one of the 50 rarest birds on the planet. Towering well over a meter tall with an immense two-meter wingspan, this solitary giant prowls the pristine,...
Birds > Pigeons & Doves
Scheepmaker’s Crowned Pigeon (Goura scheepmakeri), also celebrated as the Southern Crowned Pigeon, is a colossal, majestic avian wonder that ranks among the largest living pigeons on Earth. Weighing over five pounds and rivaling a female turkey in size, this...
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