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Organisms with a conservation status of critically endangered have an extremely high risk of becoming extinct.

World Conservation Union
World Conservation Union

The International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources is an international organization dedicated to natural resource Conservation ethic....
 (IUCN), widely considered to be the most objective and authoritative system for classifying species in terms of the risk of extinction, lists 3246 species (1665 animals, 1575 plants, 6 fungi, lichens and algae) of the world as being critically endangered in their 2008 Red List
IUCN Red List

The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species , created in 1963, is the world's most comprehensive inventory of the global Conservation movement status of plant and animal species....
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Critically endangered is the highest risk category assigned by the IUCN for wild species.






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Organisms with a conservation status of critically endangered have an extremely high risk of becoming extinct.

IUCN Category

The World Conservation Union
World Conservation Union

The International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources is an international organization dedicated to natural resource Conservation ethic....
 (IUCN), widely considered to be the most objective and authoritative system for classifying species in terms of the risk of extinction, lists 3246 species (1665 animals, 1575 plants, 6 fungi, lichens and algae) of the world as being critically endangered in their 2008 Red List
IUCN Red List

The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species , created in 1963, is the world's most comprehensive inventory of the global Conservation movement status of plant and animal species....
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Critically endangered is the highest risk category assigned by the IUCN for wild species. Critically endangered means that a species numbers have decreased, or will decrease, by 80% within three generations.

As the IUCN does not consider a species extinct until extensive, targeted surveys have been conducted, species which are possibly extinct are still listed as "Critically Endangered". A new category for "Possibly Extinct" has been suggested by BirdLife International
BirdLife International

BirdLife International is the international Conservation ecology organization working to bird conservation the world?s birds and their habitats....
 to categorize these taxa.

Odd-toed ungulates

  • African Wild Ass
    African Wild Ass

    The African Wild Ass is a wild member of the horse family, Equidae. This species is believed to be the ancestor of the domestic donkey which is usually placed within the same species....
     (Equus africanus)
  • Black Rhinoceros
    Black Rhinoceros

    The Black Rhinoceros , also colloquially Black Rhino, is a species of rhinoceros, native to the eastern and central areas of Africa including Kenya, Tanzania, Cameroon, South Africa, Namibia and Zimbabwe....
     (Diceros bicornis)
  • Javan Rhinoceros
    Javan Rhinoceros

    The Javan Rhinoceros or Lesser One-horned Rhinoceros is a member of the family Rhinocerotidae and one of five extant rhinoceroses. It belongs to the same genus as the Indian Rhinoceros, and has similar mosaicked skin which resembles armor, but at 3.1?3.2 m in length and 1.4?1.7 m in height, it is smaller than the Indian Rh...
     (Rhinoceros sondaicus)
  • Sumatran Rhinoceros
    Sumatran Rhinoceros

    The Sumatran Rhinoceros is a member of the family Rhinocerotidae and one of five extant rhinoceroses. It is the smallest rhinoceros, standing about 120?145 centimetres high at the shoulder, with a body length of and weight of 500?800 kilograms ....
     (Dicerorhinus sumatrensis)


Even-toed ungulate
Even-toed ungulate

The even-toed ungulates form the mammal order Artiodactyla, the group that contains the pigs, peccary, hippopotamuses, camels, chevrotains , deer, giraffes, pronghorn, antelopes, sheep, goats, and cattle....
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  • Giant Sable Antelope
    Giant Sable Antelope

    The Giant Sable Antelope, Hippotragus niger variani, also known in Portuguese as the Palanca Negra, is a large, rare subspecies of Sable Antelope native and Endemic to the region between Cuango and Luando Rivers in Angola....
     (Hippotragus niger varani)
  • Pygmy hog
    Pygmy Hog

    Pygmy hog is an endangered species of small wild pig, previously spread across India, Nepal, and Bhutan but now only found in Assam. The current world population is about 150 individuals or fewer....
     (Sus salvanius)
  • Visayan warty pig
    Visayan warty pig

    The Visayan Warty Pig, Sus cebifrons, is a critically endangered species of pig. The Visayan warty pig is endemism to two of the Visayan Islands in the central Philippines, and is threatened by habitat loss, food shortages and hunting - these are the leading causes of the Visayan Warty Pig's status as critically endangered....
     (Sus cebifrons)
  • Bactrian camel
    Bactrian camel

    The Bactrian Camel is a large even-toed ungulate native to the steppes of north eastern Asia. It is one of the two surviving species of camel....
     (Camelus bactrianus)
  • Addax
    Addax

    The Addax , also known as the screwhorn antelope, is a critically endangered desert antelope that lives in several isolated regions in the Sahara desert....
     (Addax nasomaculatus)
  • Aders' Duiker (Cephalophus adersi)
  • Kouprey
    Kouprey

    Kouprey is a wild forest-dwelling ox found mainly in northern Cambodia but also believed to exist in southern Laos, western Vietnam, and eastern Thailand....
     (Bos sauveli)
  • Tamaraw
    Tamaraw

    The Tamaraw or Mindoro Dwarf Buffalo is a small hoofed mammal belonging to the family Bovidae. It is Endemism to the island of Mindoro in the Philippines and is the only endemic Philippine bovine....
     or Tamarou
    Tamaraw

    The Tamaraw or Mindoro Dwarf Buffalo is a small hoofed mammal belonging to the family Bovidae. It is Endemism to the island of Mindoro in the Philippines and is the only endemic Philippine bovine....
     (Bubalus mindorensis)
  • Hirola
    Hirola

    The Hirola is an antelope species found in arid grassy plains in a pocket on the border between Kenya and Somalia. It's the only member of the genus Beatragus....
     (Damaliscus hunteri)
  • Walia Ibex
    Walia Ibex

    The walia ibex is a species of ibex that is endangered. It is sometimes considered a subspecies of the Alpine Ibex. Threats against the species include habitat loss, poaching, and restricted range....
     or Ethiopian ibex (Capra walie)
  • Dama Gazelle
    Dama Gazelle

    The Dama Gazelle , also known as the Addra Gazelle, is a species of gazelle. It lives in Africa in the Sahara desert and migrates south in search of food during the dry season....
     (Gazella dama)
  • Przewalski's Gazelle
    Przewalski's Gazelle

    Przewalski's Gazelle is a member of the Bovidae family and, in the wild, is found only in China. Once widespread, its range has declined to six populations near Qinghai Lake....
     (Procapra przewalskii)
  • Saola
    Saola

    The Saola or Vu Quang ox, also, infrequently, Vu Quang bovid , one of the world's rarest mammals, is a forest-dwelling bovine found only in Vietnam and in Laos, near the Vietnam-Laotian border....
     (Pseudoryx nghetinhensis)
  • Saiga Antelope
    Saiga Antelope

    The Saiga is an antelope which originally inhabited a vast area of the Eurasian steppe zone from the foothils of the Carpathian Mountains and Caucasus into Dzungaria and Mongolia....
     (Saiga tatarica)


Cetacea
Cetacea

The order Cetacea includes whales, dolphins, and porpoises. Cetus is Latin and is used in biological names to mean "whale"; its original meaning, "large sea animal", was more general....

  • Vaquita
    Vaquita

    The vaquita is a rare species of porpoise. It is endemic to the northern part of the Gulf of California . Estimates of the number of individuals alive range from 100 to 300 ....
     (Phocoena sinus)
  • Baiji
    Baiji

    Baiji may refer to:* The Baiji or Yangtze River Dolphin * Baiji, Iraq, a city of northern Iraq.* "Baiji" is the pinyin Romanization for Baekje....
     (Lepotes vexillifer)


Carnivores
Carnivora

The diverse Order Carnivora includes over 260 species of eutheria mammals. Its members are formally referred to as carnivorans, while the word "carnivore" can refer to any meat-eating animal....

  • Island Fox
    Island Fox

    The Island Fox is a small fox that is native to six of the eight Channel Islands of California. It is the second smallest fox species in the United States....
     (Urocyon littoralis)
  • Darwin's Fox
    Darwin's Fox

    Darwin's Fox or Darwin's Zorro is a small Critically_endangered_species Canidae from the genus Lycalopex. It is also known as the Zorro Chilote or Zorro de Darwin in Spanish language and lives on Chilo? Island and Nahuelbuta National Park in mainland Chile ....
     (Pseudalopex fulvipes)
  • Iberian lynx
    Iberian Lynx

    The Iberian lynx , sometimes referred to as the Spanish lynx, is a critically endangered feline mammal native to the Iberian Peninsula in Southern Europe, being the...
     (Lynx pardinus)
  • Malabar civet
    Malabar Civet

    The Malabar Large-spotted Civet , is a civet. It is also known as the Malabar Civet and called Jawad in Malayalam, the local language of Kerala....
     (Viverra civettina)
  • Mediterranean Monk Seal
    Mediterranean Monk Seal

    The Mediterranean Monk Seal is a pinniped belonging to the Phocidae family: at some 350-450 remaining individuals it is believed to be the world's rarest pinniped and one of the most endangered mammals of the world....
     (Monachus monachus)
  • Red wolf
    Red Wolf

    The Red Wolf is a North American canid which once roamed throughout the Southeastern United States and is a Last glacial period survivor of the Late Pleistocene epoch....
     (Canis rufus)
  • Amur Leopard
    Amur Leopard

    The Amur Leopard is a wild feline predator native to the Russian Far East. It is one of the rarest felines in the world with an estimated 30 to 35 individuals remaining in the wild....
     (Panthera pardus oriëntalis)
  • Barbary Leopard
    Barbary leopard

    The Barbary Leopard, Panthera pardus panthera, which inhabits the Atlas Mountains of northwest Africa, closely resembles the familiar African Leopard....
     (Panthera pardus panthera)
  • Siberian Tiger (Panthera tigris altaica)
  • Sumatran Tiger
    Sumatran Tiger

    The Sumatran Tiger is a subspecies of tiger found on the Indonesian island of Sumatra. The wild population is estimated at approximately 250 animals, occurring predominantly in the island's List of national parks of Indonesia#Sumatra....
     (Panthera tigris sumatrae)
  • Asiatic Cheetah
    Asiatic Cheetah

    The Asiatic Cheetah is now also known as the Iranian Cheetah and although recently extinct in India it is also known as the Indian Cheetah....
     (Acinonyx jubatus venaticus)


Bats

  • Bulmer's fruit bat
    Bulmer's fruit bat

    Bulmer's fruit bat is an Old World fruit bat endemic to Papua New Guinea. It is listed as a critically endangered species due to habitat loss and hunting....
     (Aproteles bulmerae)
  • Gallagher's free-tailed bat
    Gallagher's Free-tailed Bat

    Gallagher's free-tailed bat is a free-tailed bat endemic to the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It is listed as a critically endangered species due to habitat loss and a restricted range....
     (Chaerephon gallagheri)
  • Chaerephon tomensis
  • Seychelles sheath-tailed bat
    Seychelles Sheath-tailed Bat

    The Seychelles sheath-tailed bat is a sac-winged bat. It occurs in the central granitic islands of the Seychelles Islands north of Madagascar. It was probably abundant throughout the Seychelles in the past, but it has declined drastically and is now extinct on most islands....
     (Coleura seychellensis)
  • Lamotte's roundleaf bat
    Lamotte's Roundleaf Bat

    Lamotte's roundleaf bat is a horseshoe bat found only in C?te d'Ivoire, Guinea and Liberia. It is listed as a critically endangered species due to habitat loss and a restricted range....
     (Hipposideros lamottei)
  • Malayan Roundleaf Bat
    Malayan Roundleaf Bat

    The Malayan roundleaf bat is a horseshoe bat found only in Malaysia. It is listed as a critically endangered species.References...
     (Hipposideros nequam)
  • Peter's tube-nosed bat
    Peter's Tube-nosed Bat

    Peter's Tube-nosed Bat is a species of vesper bat in the Vespertilionidae family. They have Tube-shaped nostrils which assist them with their feeding....
     (Murina grisea)
  • Murina tenebrosa
  • Myotis cobanensis
  • Myotis planiceps
  • Nyctimene rabori
  • Wroughton's free-tailed bat
    Wroughton's Free-tailed Bat

    The Wroughton's free-tailed bat is a free-tailed bat formerly considered to be confined to the Western Ghats area of India, though it has also recently been discovered in Northeast India and in a remote part of Cambodia....
     (Otomops wroughtoni)
  • Vietnam leaf-nosed bat
    Vietnam leaf-nosed bat

    Vietnam leaf-nosed batThis bat species is known from a single specimen. It is characterised by its exceptionally large ears, which are separate and rounded at the top....
     (Paracoelops megalotis)
  • New Guinea big-eared bat
    New Guinea big-eared bat

    The New Guinea big-eared bat is a Vespertilionidae endemic to Papua New Guinea. It is listed as a critically endangered species due to ongoing habitat loss....
     (Pharotis imogene)
  • Anthony's pipistrelle
    Anthony's pipistrelle

    Anthony's pipistrelle is a Pipistrellus. It is listed as a critically endangered species due to habitat loss and a restricted range in Burma....
     (Pipistrellus anthonyi)
  • Joffre's pipistrelle
    Joffre's Pipistrelle

    Joffre's Pipistrelle is a species of vesper bat in the Vespertilionidae family.It is found only in Burma.It is threatened by habitat loss....
     (Pipistrellus joffrei)
  • Fijian monkey-faced bat
    Fijian Monkey-faced Bat

    The Fijian monkey-faced bat , also called the Fiji Flying Fox, is an Old World fruit bat Endemism to Fiji. It was discovered the hills of Taveuni by Bill Beckon in 1977 and is Fiji's only native mammal....
     (Mirimiri acrodonta) - formerly in Pteralopex
  • Bougainville monkey-faced bat
    Bougainville Monkey-faced Bat

    The Bougainville monkey-faced bat is an Old World fruit bat found only on islands of Bougainville Island and Choiseul Island in Melanesia. It lives in lowkand rain forests and eats a veriety of nuts....
     (Pteralopex anceps)
  • Guadalcanal monkey-faced bat
    Guadalcanal Monkey-faced Bat

    The Guadalcanal monkey-faced bat is an Old World fruit bat endemic to Solomon Islands. It is listed as a critically endangered species....
     (Pteralopex atrata)
  • Montane monkey-faced bat
    Montane Monkey-faced Bat

    The Montane monkey-faced bat is an Old World fruit bat endemic to Solomon Islands. It is listed as a critically endangered species....
     (Pteralopex pulchra)
  • Aldabra Flying Fox
    Aldabra Flying Fox

    The Aldabra Flying Fox or Aldabra Flying-fox is a species of bat in the Pteropodidae family. It is Endemism to Seychelles. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical mangrove forests and subtropical or tropical dry shrubland....
     (Pteropus aldabrensis)
  • Pteropus insularis
  • Pteropus livingstonii
  • Pteropus molossinus
  • Pteropus phaecocephalus
  • Pteropus pselaphon
  • Pteropus rodricensis
  • Rhinolophus convexus
  • Rhinolophus hilli
    Rhinolophus hilli

    Rhinolophus hilli is a species of bat in the Rhinolophidae family. It is Endemism to Rwanda. Category:Fauna of Rwanda Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist montanes, caves, and subterranean habitats ....
  • Scotophilus borboniscus
  • Taphozous troughtoni


Primates

  • Western Lowland Gorilla
    Western Lowland Gorilla

    The Western Lowland Gorilla is a subspecies of the Western Gorilla that lives in montane forest, primary forest, and secondary forests and lowland swamps in Angola, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea and Gabon....
     (Gorilla gorilla gorilla)
  • Cross River Gorilla
    Cross River Gorilla

    The Cross River Gorilla is a subspecies of the Western Gorilla that can be found on the border between Nigeria and Cameroon, in both tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests....
     (Gorilla gorilla diehli)
  • Mountain Gorilla
    Mountain Gorilla

    The Mountain Gorilla is one of the two subspecies of the Eastern Gorilla. There are two groups. One is found in the Virunga Mountains of Central Africa, within 4 national parks: Mgahinga Gorilla National Park, in south-west Uganda; Volcanoes National Park, in north-west Rwanda; and Virunga National Park and Kahuzi-Bi?ga National Park, in t...
     (Gorilla beringei beringei)
  • Sumatran Orangutan
    Sumatran Orangutan

    The Sumatran Orangutan is the rarer of the two species of orangutans. Living and endemic to Sumatra island of Indonesia, they are smaller than the Bornean Orangutan....
     (Pongo abelli)
  • Eastern Black Crested Gibbon
    Eastern Black Crested Gibbon

    The 'Eastern Black Crested Gibbon' is a species of gibbon that was once widespread in China and Vietnam. There are 2 subspecies.It became extinct on the Chinese mainland in the 1950s; and now roughly only 20 gibbons of the subspecies Nomascus nasutus hainanus survive on Hainan Island and around 26 individuals of the subspecies Nomascu...
     (Nomascus nasutus)
  • Silvery Gibbon
    Silvery Gibbon

    The Silvery Gibbon is a primate in the Hylobatidae or gibbon family. Their skin is bluish grey in colour, with a dark grey or black cap. Like all gibbons, they have no tail and their arms are long compared to their body....
     (Hylobates moloch)
  • Pagai Island Macaque
    Pagai Island Macaque

    The Pagai Island Macaque , also known as the Pagai Macaque or Bokkoi, is an Old World monkey that is Endemism to the Mentawai Islands off the west coast of Sumatra....
     (Macaca pagensis)
  • Tonkin Snub-nosed Monkey (Rhinopithecus avunculus)
  • Delacour's Langur
    Delacour's Langur

    The Delacour's Langur is a critically endangered species of lutung Endemism to Vietnam.References...
     (Trachypithecus delacouri)
  • White-headed Langur
    White-headed Langur

    The 'White-headed Langur' is a critically endangered langur from Cat Ba Island, Vietnam , and Guangxi, China . Both taxa are overall blackish, but the crown, cheeks and neck are yellowish in T....
     (Trachypithecus poliocephalus)
  • Yellow-tailed Woolly Monkey
    Yellow-tailed Woolly Monkey

    The Yellow-tailed Woolly monkey, Oreonax flavicauda, is a New World monkey primate Endemism to Peru. It is a rare species found only in the Peruvian Andes....
     (Oreonax flavicauda)
  • Eastern Red Colobus (Procolobus rufomitratus)
  • Northern Muriqui
    Northern Muriqui

    The Northern Muriqui is a muriqui species endemic to Brazil. It is found in the Brazilian states of Rio de Janeiro, Esp%C3%ADrito Santo, Minas Gerais and Bahia....
     (Brachyteles hypoxanthus)
  • Coimbra's Titi (Callicebus coimbrai)
  • Yellow-breasted Capuchin (Cebus xanthosternos)
  • Superagui Lion Tamarin
    Superagui Lion Tamarin

    The Superagui Lion Tamarin is a small New World monkey primate of the Cebidae family. It is an endemic Brazilian lion tamarin, found in a small area in the Brazilian coast, called Superagui....
     (Leontopithecus caissara)
  • Black Lion Tamarin
    Black Lion Tamarin

    The Black Lion Tamarin also known as the Golden-rumped Lion Tamarin is a lion tamarin found only in the Brazil state of S?o Paulo , almost exclusively at the Morro do Diabo State Park....
     (Leontopithecus chrysopygus)
  • Blue-eyed Black Lemur (Eulemur macaco flavifrons)
  • White-collared Brown Lemur
    White-collared Brown Lemur

    The 'White-collared Brown Lemur' is a medium-sized prosimian in the order Primates, a cathemeral species of lemur in the Lemuridae family. Recent genetic and morphology evidence has suggested that E....
     (Eulemur albocollaris)
  • Golden Bamboo Lemur
    Golden Bamboo Lemur

    The Golden Bamboo Lemur or Golden Lemur is a medium sized bamboo lemur endemic to southeastern Madagascar. It is listed as a endangered species due to habitat loss....
     (Hapalemur aureus)
  • Greater Bamboo Lemur
    Greater Bamboo Lemur

    The Greater Bamboo Lemur is a large, greyish brown lemur with white ear tufts. It feeds almost exclusively on Giant Bamboo, preferring the shoots but also eating the pith and leaves....
     (Prolemur simus)
  • Golden-crowned Sifaka
    Golden-crowned Sifaka

    The Golden-crowned Sifaka is a medium-large lemur characterized by short, mostly white fur, prominent furry ears and a golden-orange crown. It weighs about 3.5 kg and is about 90 cm long....
     (Propithecus tattersalli)
  • Golden Lion Tamarin
    Golden Lion Tamarin

    The Golden Lion Tamarin also known as Golden Marmoset, is a small New World monkey of the family Cebidae. Native to the Atlantic coastal forests of Brazil, the Golden Lion Tamarin is an endangered species with an estimated wild population of "more than 1,000 individuals" and a captive population maintained at approximately 490 individu...
     (Leontopithecus rosalia)
  • Silky Sifaka
    Silky Sifaka

    The Silky Sifaka is a species of lemur found only in northeastern Madagascar. It is one of the rarest mammals on earth, and is listed as one of the World?s top 25 most critically endangered primates....
     (Propithecus candidus)
  • Sahamalaza's Sportive Lemur
    Sahamalaza's Sportive Lemur

    The Sahamalaza Sportive Lemur is a sportive lemur endemic to Madagascar. It has a total length of about 51 to 54 centimeters, of which 26-27 centimeters are tail....
     (Lepilemur sahamalazensis)
  • Roloway Monkey
    Roloway Monkey

    The Roloway Monkey is a species of Old World monkey found in a small area of eastern C?te d'Ivoire and the forests of Ghana, between the Sassandra River and Pra River s....
     (Cercopithecus diana roloway)
  • Miss Waldron's Red Colobus
    Miss Waldron's Red Colobus

    Miss Waldron's Red Colobus is a subspecies of the Western Red Colobus native to West Africa. It has not been officially sighted since 1978 and was considered extinction in 2000....
     (Procolobus badius waldroni)
  • Golden-headed Langur (Trachypithecus p. poliocephalus)
  • Grey-shanked Douc (Pygathrix cinerea)
  • Hainan Black-crested Gibbon
    Hainan Black-Crested Gibbon

    The Hainan Black Crested Gibbon , is a subspecies of the Eastern Black Crested Gibbon, found on Hainan Island, China and the Hoa Binh and Cao Bang provinces of Vietnam....
     (Nomascus hainanus)
  • Brown-headed Spider Monkey (Ateles fusciceps)


Lagomorphs
Lagomorpha

The lagomorphs are the members of the taxonomic order Lagomorpha, of which there are two family , the Leporidae , and the Ochotonidae . The name of the order is derived from the Greek lagos hare and morphe form....

  • Riverine rabbit
    Riverine Rabbit

    The Riverine Rabbit , also known as the Bushman Rabbit or Bushman Hare, is one of the rarest and most endangered mammals in the world, with probably no more than 200 individuals left....
     (Bunolagus monticularuis)
  • Sumatran Rabbit (Nesolagus netscheri)
  • Omilteme Cottontail
    Omilteme Cottontail

    The Omilteme Cottontail , also known as the Omiltemi Rabbit, is a cottontail rabbit found only in Sierra Madre del Sur in the state of Guerrero, Mexico, although it hasn't been recorded since the early 1960s....
     (Sylvilagus insonus)
  • Helan Shan Pika
    Helan Shan Pika

    name = Helan Shan Pika| image =| status = CR | status_system = IUCN2.3| regnum = Animalia| phylum = Chordata| classis = Mammalia| ordo = Lagomorpha...
     (Ochotona argentata)
  • (Ochotona pallasi hamica)
  • (Ochotona thibetana sikimaria)


Marsupial
Marsupial

Marsupials are an infraclass of mammals, characterized by a distinctive Pouch , in which females carry their young through early infancy....
s

  • Aceramarca Gracile Opossum
    Aceramarca Gracile Opossum

    The Aceramarca Gracile Mouse Opossum or Bolivian Gracile Opossum is a species of opossum in the Didelphidae family. It is found in Bolivia and Peru....
     (Gracilianus aceramarcae)
  • Anderson's Mouse Opossum
    Anderson's Mouse Opossum

    The Heavy-browed Mouse Opossum , or Anderson's Mouse Opossum, is a species of opossum in the Didelphidae family.It is Endemism to Peru....
     (Marmosa andersoni)
  • Handley's Slender Mouse Opossum (Marmosops handleyi)
  • Northern Hairy-nosed Wombat
    Northern Hairy-nosed Wombat

    The Northern Hairy-nosed Wombat , also known as the Yaminon, is one of three species of wombats. It was found across New South Wales, Victoria and Queensland as recently as 100 years ago, but is now restricted to a 3 km? range within the 32 km? Epping Forest National Park in Queensland....
     (Lasiorhinus krefftii)
  • Gilbert's Potoroo
    Gilbert's Potoroo

    Gilbert's Potoroo is an Australian marsupial that is critically endangered. It lives in a restricted area on the Southwest, Western Australia coast of Western Australia....
     (Potorous gilbertii)


Insectivores
Insectivora

The Order Insectivora is a now-abandoned biological grouping within the class of mammals.In the past, the grouping was used as a scrapbasket for a variety of small to very small, relatively unspecialised, insectivorous mammals....

  • Hantu Water Shrew
    Hantu Water Shrew

    The Malayan Water Shrew , also known as the Hantu Water Shrew, is a red-toothed shrew found only in the Ulu Langsat Forest Reserve in the Malaysian state of Selangor....
     (Chimarrogale hantu)
  • Sumatran Water Shrew (Chimarrogale sumatrana)
  • Somali Golden Mole
    Somali Golden Mole

    The Somali Golden Mole is a golden mole endemic to Somalia.References...
     (Chlorotalpa tytonis)
  • Visagie's Golden Mole
    Visagie's Golden Mole

    Visagie's Golden Mole is a mole endemic to South Africa.References...
     (Chrysochloris visagiei)
  • Harenna Shrew
    Harenna Shrew

    The Harenna Shrew is a white-toothed shrew found only in one location in the Bale Mountains in southern Ethiopia. It occupies an area of less than 10 km? and is listed as a critically endangered species due to habitat loss and a restricted range....
     (Crocidura harenna)
  • De Winton's Golden Mole
    De Winton's Golden Mole

    De Winton's Golden Mole is a species of mammal in the Chrysochloridae family. It is Endemism to South Africa. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry shrubland, Mediterranean-type shrubby vegetation, and sandy shores....
     (Cryptochloris wintoni)
  • Negros Shrew
    Negros Shrew

    The Negros Shrew is a white-toothed shrew found only on the island of Negros in the Philippines. It is locally called the katsur? and is listed as a critically endangered species due to habitat loss and a restricted range....
     (Crocidura negrina)
  • Sao Tomé Shrew
    Sao Tomé Shrew

    The S?o Tom? Shrew is a white-toothed shrew found only on S?o Tom? Island, S?o Tom? and Pr?ncipe. It is listed as a critically endangered species due to habitat loss and a restricted range....
     (Crocidura thomensis)
  • Wimmer's Shrew
    Wimmer's Shrew

    Wimmer's Shrew is a white-toothed shrew found only in C?te d'Ivoire. It is listed as a critically endangered species due to habitat loss and a restricted range....
     (Crocidura wimmeri)
  • Small-toothed Mole
    Small-toothed Mole

    The Small-toothed Mole is a species of mammal in the Talpidae family. It is Endemism to Vietnam. It is threatened by habitat loss....
     (Euroscaptor parvidens)
  • Dwarf Gymnure
    Dwarf Gymnure

    The Dwarf Gymnure is a gymnure found only at Mount Kerinci, Sumatra, Indonesia. It is listed by the World Conservation Union as a critically endangered species due to a restricted range....
     (Hylomys parvus)
  • Tree Shrew Tenrec (Microgale dryas)
  • Eisentraut's Mouse Shrew
    Eisentraut's Mouse Shrew

    Eisentraut's Mouse Shrew is a Myosoricinae shrew found only on the island of Bioko, Equatorial Guinea. It is listed as a critically endangered species due to habitat loss and a restricted range....
     (Myosorex eisentrauti)
  • Rumpi Mouse Shrew
    Rumpi Mouse Shrew

    Rumpi Mouse Shrew is an Myosoricinae shrew found only on the Rumpi hills, Cameroon. It is listed as a critically endangered species due to habitat loss and a restricted range....
     (Myosorex rumpii)
  • Gansu Shrew
    Gansu Shrew

    The Gansu Shrew is a red-toothed shrew found only in the Gansu province, China. It is listed as a critically endangered species due to habitat loss and a restricted range....
     (Sorex cansulus)
  • Kozlov's Shrew
    Kozlov's Shrew

    Kozlov's Shrew is a red-toothed shrew found only at the Mekong River, Tibet, China. This shrew listed as a critically endangered species due to habitat loss and a restricted range....
     (Sorex kozlovi)
  • Salenski's Shrew
    Salenski's Shrew

    Salenski's Shrew is a red-toothed shrew found only in northern Sichuan, China. It is listed as a critically endangered species due to habitat loss and a restricted range....
     (Soriculus salenskii)
  • Black Shrew
    Black Shrew

    The Black Shrew is a white-toothed shrew only known from Mount Kinabalu in the Malaysian state of Sabah on the island of Borneo. It is listed as a critically endangered species due to habitat loss and a restricted range....
     (Suncus ater)


Crocodilians

  • Chinese Alligator
    Chinese Alligator

    The Chinese Alligator or Yangtze Alligator is one of two known living species of Alligator, a genus in the family Alligatoridae. The Chinese Alligator is native only to China....
     (Alligator sinensis)
  • Gavial
    Gharial

    The gharial , sometimes called the Indian gavial or gavial, is one of two surviving members of the family Gavialidae, a long-established group of crocodile-like reptiles with long, narrow jaws....
     (Gavialis gangeticus)
  • Philippine Crocodile
    Philippine crocodile

    The Philippine crocodile is a crocodile found only in the Philippines. It is also known as the Mindoro crocodile and the Philippine freshwater crocodile....
     (Crocodylus mindorensis)


Squamata
Squamata

Squamata, or the scaled reptiles, is the largest recent order of reptiles, including lizards and snakes. Members of the order are distinguished by their skins, which bear horny scale or shields....

  • Blue Iguana
    Blue Iguana

    The Blue Iguana or Grand Cayman Iguana is a critically endangered species of lizard of the genus Cyclura endemic to the island of Grand Cayman....
     (Cyclura Lewisi)


Amphibian
Amphibian

Amphibians , such as frogs, toads, salamanders, newts and caecilians, are cold-blooded animals that metamorphose from a juvenile, water-breathing form to an adult, air-breathing form....
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  • Axolotl
    Axolotl

    The axolotl , Ambystoma mexicanum, is the best known of the Mexican neoteny mole salamanders belonging to the Tiger Salamander complex....
     (Ambystoma mexicanum)


Fish
Fish

A fish is any marine biology vertebrate animal that is typically ectothermic , covered with scale , and equipped with two sets of paired fins and several unpaired fins....

  • Alabama sturgeon
    Alabama sturgeon

    The Alabama sturgeon, Scaphirhynchus suttkusi, is a critically endangered species of sturgeon native to the United States and now only believed to exist in of the lower Alabama River....
     (Scaphirhynchus suttkusi)
  • Coelacanth
    Coelacanth

    Coelacanth is the common name for an Order of fish that includes the oldest living Lineage of gnathostomata known to date. The coelacanths, which are related to lungfishes and tetrapods, were believed to have been extinction since the end of the Cretaceous period, until the first Latimeria specimen was found off the east coast of Sout...
  • Common sawfish
    Common sawfish

    The common sawfish, Pristis pristis, is a sawfish of the family Pristidae, found in subtropical waters of the Pacific Ocean, between latitudes 45? N and 17? S....
     (Pristis pristis)
  • Daggernose shark
    Daggernose shark

    The daggernose shark, Isogomphodon oxyrhynchus, the only member of the genus Isogomphodon, is a shark of the family Carcharhinidae, found in the tropical waters of the western Atlantic ocean between latitudes 12th parallel north and 20th parallel south, from the surface to 15 m....
     (Isogomphodon oxyrhynchus)
  • Dumb gulper shark
    Dumb gulper shark

    The dumb gulper shark, Centrophorus harrissoni, is a rare deepwater dogfish, known from only two locations, one around Taiwan and the other along the East Coast of Australia....
     (Centrophorus harrissoni)
  • Dwarf sawfish
    Dwarf sawfish

    The dwarf sawfish or Queensland sawfish, Pristis clavata, is a sawfish of the family Pristidae, found in shallow tropical Australian waters between latitudes 10? S and 22? S....
     also called Queensland sawfish (Pristis clavata)
  • Dwarf loach (Yasuhikotakia sidthimunki)
  • Dwarf pygmy goby (Pandaka pygmaea)
  • Ganges shark
    Ganges shark

    The Ganges shark, Glyphis gangeticus, is a rare species of river shark that dwells in the Ganges River. It should not be confused with the Bull shark, which also inhabits the Ganges River and is sometimes referred to as the Ganges shark....
     (Glyphis gangeticus)
  • Giant sea bass
    Giant sea bass

    The giant sea bass , also known as the black sea bass, is a fish native to the northern Pacific Ocean. With its conspicuous size and a curious nature, it is surprising that relatively little is known about its biology or behavior....
     (Stereolepis gigas)
  • Goliath grouper
    Goliath grouper

    The Atlantic goliath grouper or itajara is a large saltwater fish of the grouper family. It was formerly known as the jewfish; however, in 2001 the American Fisheries Society made the decision to change the name to the more considerate "goliath grouper"....
     (Epinephelus itajara)
  • Knifetooth sawfish
    Knifetooth sawfish

    The knifetooth sawfish or pointed sawfish, Anoxypristis cuspidata, is a sawfish of the family Pristidae, the only member of the genus Anoxypristis, found in the tropical Indo-Pacific oceans in the Red Sea, the Persian Gulf, Papua New Guinea, and southern Japan to northern Australia....
     also called pointed sawfish, (Anoxypristis cuspidata)
  • Large-tooth sawfish
    Large-tooth sawfish

    The large-tooth sawfish, Pristis perotteti, is a sawfish of the family Pristidae, found in tropical waters of the north Atlantic and the central Pacific, between latitudes 32? N and 19? S....
     (Pristis microdon)
  • Longcomb sawfish
    Longcomb sawfish

    The longcomb sawfish, Pristis zijsron, is a sawfish of the family Pristidae, found in tropical waters of the Indo-Pacific oceans, from the Red Sea and east Africa to Papua New Guinea, north to southern China, and south to New South Wales, Australia, between latitudes 21? N and 37? S....
     (Pristis zijsron)
  • Mekong giant catfish
    Mekong giant catfish

    The Mekong giant catfish, Pangasianodon gigas, is a species of catfish in the shark catfish family , native to the Mekong basin in Southeast Asia....
     (Pangasianodon gigas)
  • Pondicherry shark
    Pondicherry shark

    The Pondicherry shark, Carcharhinus hemiodon is a requiem shark of the family Carcharhinidae, found in the Indo-Pacific between latitudes 25th parallel north and 13th parallel south....
     (Carcharhinus hemiodon)
  • Smalltooth sawfish
    Smalltooth sawfish

    The smalltooth sawfish, Pristis pectinata, is a sawfish of the family Pristidae, found in shallow subtropical waters circumglobally, between latitudes 44? N and 37? S....
     (Pristis pectinata)
  • Southern bluefin tuna
    Southern bluefin tuna

    The southern bluefin tuna, Thunnus maccoyii, is a tuna of the family Scombridae found in open southern hemisphere waters of all the worlds oceans mainly between 30?S and 50?S, to nearly 60?S....
     (Thunnus maccoyii)
  • Angelshark
    Squatina squatina

    The angelshark, Squatina squatina, is an angel shark of the family Squatinidae found in the northeast Atlantic from southern Norway, Sweden and the Shetland Islands to Morocco and west Sahara, including the Canary Islands and the Mediterranean between latitudes 65th parallel north and 15th parallel north, at depths down to 150 metre....
     (Squatina squatina)
  • Striped smooth-hound
    Striped smooth-hound

    The striped smooth-hound, Mustelus fasciatus, is a houndshark of the family Triakidae, found on the continental shelves of the subtropical southwest Atlantic from southern Brazil to northern Argentina between latitudes 30th parallel south and 47th parallel south, from the surface to 250 m....
     (Mustelus fasciatus)
  • Totoaba
    Totoaba

    The totoaba or totuava is a Marine fish of the drum family that is Endemism to the northern half of the Gulf of California in Mexico. Formerly abundant and subject to an intensive fishery, the totoaba has become rare, and is listed on CITES, the IUCN Red List, and the Endangered Species Act ....
     (Totoaba macdonaldi)


Fungi

  • Boreal Felt Lichen (Erioderma pedicellatum)
  • Pleurotus nebrodensis


Birds

  • Alaotra Grebe
    Alaotra Grebe

    The Alaotra Grebe , also known as Delacour's Little Grebe or Rusty Grebe, is or was a grebe found only on Lake Alaotra and surrounding lakes in Madagascar....
     (Tachybaptus rufolavatus)
  • Black-hooded Coucal
    Black-hooded Coucal

    The Black-hooded Coucal is a species of cuckoo in the Cuculidae family. It is Endemism to the Philippines.Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests....
     (Centropus steerii)
  • California Condor
    California Condor

    The California Condor is a North American species of bird in the New World vulture family Cathartidae and the largest North American land bird....
     (Gymnogyps californianus)
  • Chatham Island Shag
    Chatham Island Shag

    The Chatham Island Shag is a species of bird in the Phalacrocoracidae family. It is Endemism to New Zealand.Its natural habitats are open seas and rocky shores....
     (Phalacrocorax onslowi)
  • Christmas Island frigatebird
    Christmas Island Frigatebird

    The Christmas Island Frigatebird is a frigatebird Endemism in birds to the Christmas Islands in the Indian Ocean. Like other frigatebirds, this species does not walk or swim, but is a very aerial bird which obtains its food by picking up live prey items from beaches or the water surface, and the aerial piracy of other birds....
     (Fregata andrewsi)
  • Ivory-billed Woodpecker
    Ivory-billed Woodpecker

    The Ivory-billed Woodpecker is a very large member of the family Picidae. It was considered extinct for many years until a series of possible sightings beginning in 1999....
     (Campephilus principalis)
  • Jamaican Pauraque
    Jamaican Pauraque

    The Jamaican Pauraque, Jamaican Poorwill, or Jamaican Least-pauraqu? is a species of nightjar in the Caprimulgidae family.It is Endemism to Jamaica....
     (Siphonorhis americana)
  • Junín Grebe (Podiceps taczanowskii)
  • Magdalena Tinamou
    Magdalena Tinamou

    The Magdalena Tinamou, Crypturellus erythropus saltuarius, is a member of one of the most ancient bird families, the tinamous. It is Endemism to Colombia, and has been considered possibly extinct, as there are no confirmed records since the type specimen was collected in 1943....
     (Crypturellus saltuarius)
  • New Caledonian Owlet-nightjar
    New Caledonian Owlet-nightjar

    The New Caledonian Owlet-nightjar Aegotheles savesi is a large owlet-nightjar with vermiculated grey-brown and black plumage. It has a long, slightly rounded tail, short, rounded wings, and long, stout legs....
     (Aegotheles savesi)
  • Okarito Brown Kiwi
    Okarito Brown Kiwi

    The Okarito Brown Kiwi, Apteryx rowi, also known as the Rowi is a member of the Kiwi family Apterygidae, described as Bird species new to science in 2003....
     (Apteryx rowi)
  • Puerto Rican Nightjar
    Puerto Rican Nightjar

    The Puerto Rican Nightjar, Caprimulgus noctitherus, is a very rare bird found in the Puerto Rican dry forest in localized areas of southwestern Puerto Rico....
     (Caprimulgus noctitherus)
  • Red-headed Vulture
    Red-headed Vulture

    The Red-headed Vulture , also known as the Asian King Vulture, Indian Black Vulture or Pondicherry Vulture, is a species of Old World vulture found in South Asia....
     (Sarcogyps calvus)
  • Sulu Hornbill
    Sulu Hornbill

    The Sulu Hornbill or Montano's Hornbill is a species of hornbill in the Bucerotidae family.It is Endemism to the Philippines....
     (Anthracoceros montani)
  • Sumatran Ground Cuckoo
    Sumatran Ground Cuckoo

    The Sumatran Ground Cuckoo is a large, up to 55 cm long, long-tailed Terrestrial animal cuckoo. It has a green upperparts plumage with black crown, green Beak and legs, bluish green bare orbital skin and brown below....
     (Carpococcyx viridis)
  • Tuamoto Kingfisher (Todiramphus gambieri)
  • Writhed-billed Hornbill
    Writhed-billed Hornbill

    The Rufous-headed Hornbill , also known as the Visayan Wrinkled Hornbill, Walden's Hornbill or Writhed-billed Hornbill, is a critically endangered species of hornbill living in the rainforests on the islands of Negros Island and Panay Island in the Philippines....
     (Aceros waldeni)
  • 'Akikiki (Oreomystis bairdi)
  • 'Akohekohe (Palmeria dolei)
  • Alagoas Antwren
    Alagoas Antwren

    The Alagoas Antwren is a species of bird in the Thamnophilidae family.It is Endemism to Brazil....
     (Myrmotherula snowi)
  • Alagoas Foliage-gleaner
    Alagoas Foliage-gleaner

    The Alagoas Foliage-gleaner, Philydor novaesi, is a passerine bird which is endemism to Brazil.This species was first discovered in 1979 at Murici in Alagoas, although there have been few sightings in that area since....
     (Philydor novaesi)
  • Araripe Manakin
    Araripe Manakin

    The Araripe Manakin is a critically endangered bird from the family of Manakins ....
     (Antilophia bokermanni)
  • Archer's Lark
    Archer's Lark

    The Archer's Lark is a species of lark in the Alaudidae family. It is Endemism to Somalia.Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry shrubland and subtropical or tropical dry lowland grassland....
     (Heteromirafra archeri)
  • Azores Bullfinch
    Azores Bullfinch

    The Azores Bullfinch is a critically endangered passerine Endemism_in_birds to S?o Miguel Island, Azores....
     (Pyrrhula murina)
  • Bachman's Warbler
    Bachman's Warbler

    Bachman's Warbler is a small passerine bird that inhabited the swamps and lowland forests of the southeast United States. This New World warbler was a bird migration, wintering in Cuba....
     (Vermivora bachmanii)
  • Bahia Tapaculo
    Bahia Tapaculo

    The Bahia Tapaculo is a species of bird in the Rhinocryptidae family. It is Endemism to lowland Atlantic forests in Bahia, Brazil. Until recently, it was feared extinct, but has since been rediscovered and is now known from the List of municipalities in Bahia of Ilh?us, Mara?, Tapero?, Valen?a, Bahia....
     (Scytalopus psychopompus)
  • Bali Starling
    Bali Starling

    The Bali Starling, Leucopsar rothschildi, also known as Rothschild?s Mynah, Bali Myna or Bali Mynah is a medium-sized , stocky myna, almost wholly white with a long, drooping crest, and black tips on the wings and tail....
     (Leucopsar rothschildi)
  • Banggai Crow
    Banggai Crow

    The Banggai Crow, Corvus unicolor, is a member of the crow family. It is listed as a critically endangered species because of the lack of recent records on the species and knowledge of habitat loss and might even be extinct already, but very little is known about this species....
     (Corvus unicolor)
  • Belding's Yellowthroat
    Belding's Yellowthroat

    The Belding's Yellowthroat, Geothlypis beldingi, is a New World warbler. It is a resident breeder endemic to southern Baja California, Mexico....
     (Geothlypis beldingi)
  • Black-chinned Monarch
    Black-chinned Monarch

    The Black-chinned Monarch is a species of bird in the Monarchidae family. It is Endemism to Indonesia.Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical moist shrubland....
     (Monarcha boanensis)
  • Blue-crowned Laughingthrush
    Blue-crowned Laughingthrush

    The Blue-crowned Laughingthrush or Courtois's Laughingbird is an enigmatic species of bird in the Timaliidae family. Presently placed in the massively paraphyletic genus Garrulax, it might be among the laughingthrushes that are candidates for removal to Dryonastes....
     (Garrulax courtoisi)
  • Bulo Burti Boubou
    Bulo Burti Boubou

    The Somali Boubou is a medium-size bushshrike. It was split from the Tropical Boubou as a result of DNA sequence analysis, and this change in status was recognized by the International Ornithological Committee in 2008....
     (Laniarius liberatus)
  • Caerulean Paradise-flycatcher
    Caerulean Paradise-flycatcher

    The Caerulean Paradise-flycatcher, Eutrichomyias rowleyi, is a medium-sized , blue Monarchinae with bright cerulean blue plumage, bare white orbital ring, dark brown Iris , bluish black Beak and pale blue-grey below....
     (Eutrichomyias rowleyi)
  • Carrizal Seedeater
    Carrizal Seedeater

    The Carrizal Seedeater, Amaurospiza carrizalensis, is a recently discovered species of seedeater. These are birds in the family Cardinalidae, long placed with the American sparrows in the Emberizidae....
     (Amaurospiza carrizalensis)
  • Cebu Flowerpecker
    Cebu Flowerpecker

    The Cebu Flowerpecker is a small passerine bird. It is endemic to Cebu Island in the Philippines.The Cebu Flowerpecker is a critically endangered breeding bird....
     (Dicaeum quadricolor)
  • Cherry-throated Tanager
    Cherry-throated Tanager

    The Cherry-throated Tanager, Nemosia rourei, is a medium-sized passerine bird. This critically endangered tanager is an endemic to handful of localities in the Atlantic Forest in Esp?rito Santo, Brazil, though the possibility that it occurs in adjacent parts of Minas Gerais and Rio de Janeiro cannot be discounted....
     (Nemosia roure)
  • Cone-billed Tanager
    Cone-billed Tanager

    The Cone-billed Tanager is a species of bird in the Thraupidae family.It is Endemism to Brazil.It was described on the basis of a single male specimen collected in Mato Grosso, Brazil, in 1938....
     (Conothraupis mesoleuca)
  • Cozumel Thrasher
    Cozumel Thrasher

    The Cozumel Thrasher, Toxostoma guttatum, is a bird from the mockingbird family , which is endemic to the island of Cozumel off the Yucat?n Peninsula, Mexico....
     )Toxostoma guttatum)
  • Entre Ríos Seedeater
    Entre Ríos Seedeater

    The Entre R?os Seedeater or Narosky's Seedeater is a species of bird in the Thraupidae family. It is found in Argentina, Paraguay, and Uruguay....
     (Sporophila zelichi)
  • Faichuk White-eye
    Faichuk White-eye

    The Faichuk White-eye, Truk White-eye, Great Truk White-eye, or Teardrop White-eye is a species of bird in the Zosteropidae family....
     (Rukia ruki)
  • Fatuhiva Monarch
    Fatuhiva Monarch

    The Fatuhiva Monarch is a large flycatcher. It is endemic to Fatu Hiva in the Marquesas Islands, French Polynesia.It is critically endangered, with an estimated population of less than 1,000....
     (Pomarea whitneyi)
  • Golden White-eye
    Golden White-eye

    The Golden White-eye is a species of bird in the white-eye family Zosteropidae. It is monotype within the genus Cleptornis. The Golden White-eye was once considered to be a honeyeater in the family Meliphagidae....
     (Cleptornis marchei)
  • Guadalupe Junco
    Guadalupe Junco

    The Guadalupe Junco, Junco hyemalis insularis, is a bird Endemic to Guadalupe Island off Pacific Mexico. It is often considered a subspecies of the Dark-eyed Junco, for example by the IUCN which lumps these taxa in the 2008 IUCN Red List....
     (Junco insularis)
  • Gurney's Pitta
    Gurney's Pitta

    The Gurney's Pitta, Pitta gurneyi, is a medium-sized passerine bird. It breeds in Thailand and Burma.This beautiful bird has a blue crown and black-and-yellow underparts....
     (Pitta gurneyi)
  • Hooded Seedeater
    Hooded Seedeater

    The Hooded Seedeater is a mysterious bird from Brazil from the genus of typical seedeaters . It is only known by the male holotype from 1823....
     (Sporophila melanops)
  • Iquitos Gnatcatcher
    Iquitos Gnatcatcher

    The Iquitos Gnatcatcher Polioptila clementsi is a gnatcatcher described as Bird species new to science in 2005. It is currently only known from the Allpahuayo-Mishana National Reserve, west of Iquitos, Peru....
     (Polioptila clementsi)
  • Isabela Oriole
    Isabela Oriole

    The Isabela Oriole is an Endemic species of the Oriole family found on Luzon, the Philippines. The bird that was presumed extinct for many years until it rediscovery in December 1993 near Diffun, Quirino, Quirino, and in Mansarong, Baggao, Cagayan, Cagayan province in September 1994....
     (Oriolus isabellae)
  • Kaempfer's Tody-tyrant
    Kaempfer's Tody-Tyrant

    Kaempfer's Tody-Tyrant is a species of bird in the Tyrannidae family.It is Endemism to Atlantic forest in south-eastern Brazil.It is threatened by habitat loss....
     (Hemitriccus kaempferi)
  • Kinglet Calyptura
    Kinglet Calyptura

    The Kinglet Calyptura is a small passerine bird. It is the only member of the genus Calyptura. It has traditionally been considered a member of the family Cotingidae, but following the move of several species from this family to Tityridae - including the Iodopleura which traditionally are considered allied to the Kinglet Calyptura...
     (Calyptura cristata)
  • Kakapo
    Kakapo

    The Kakapo , Strigops habroptila, also called owl parrot, is a species of Nocturnal animal parrot Endemism in birds to New Zealand. It has finely blotched yellow-green plumage, a distinct facial disc of sensory, vibrissa feathers, a large grey beak, short legs, large feet, and wings and a tail of relatively short length....
     (Strigops habroptila)
  • Liberian Greenbul
    Liberian Greenbul

    The Liberian Greenbul is a species of songbird in the Pycnonotidae family.It is Endemism to Liberia....
     (Phyllastrephus leucolepis)
  • Long-billed Tailorbird
    Long-billed Tailorbird

    The Long-billed Tailorbird is a species of bird in the Cisticolidae family. It is found in Mozambique and Tanzania.Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist montanes....
     (Apalis moreaui)
  • Mangrove Finch
    Mangrove Finch

    The Mangrove Finch, Camarhynchus heliobates, is one of the so-called Darwin's finches. It is restricted to the Gal?pagos Islands. It was found on the islands of Fernandina Island and Isabela Island , but recent surveys have failed to record the species on Fernandina....
     (Camarhynchus heliobates)
  • Masafuera Rayadito
    Masafuera Rayadito

    The Masafuera Rayadito, Aphrastura masafuerae, is a rare bird Endemism to Alejandro Selkirk Island in the Juan Fern?ndez Islands. The species is a member of the ovenbird family and only one of two species in the rayadito genus....
     (Aphrastura masafuerae)
  • Mauritius Fody
    Mauritius Fody

    The Mauritius Fody, Foudia rubra, is a bird endemic to the island of Mauritius. It is classified by BirdLife International as being Critically Endangered, having a current estimated population of less than 250....
     (Foudia rubra)
  • Mauritius Olive White-eye
    Mauritius Olive White-eye

    The Mauritius Olive White-eye is a very rare passerine from the family of white-eyes . It is endemic to the island of Mauritius....
     (Zosterops chloronothus)
  • Millerbird
    Millerbird

    The Millerbird is a species of Old World warbler in the family Acrocephalidae. It had two subspecies, A. f. kingi and A f. familiaris....
     (Acrocephalus familiaris)
  • Minas Gerais Tyrannulet
    Minas Gerais Tyrannulet

    The Minas Gerais Tyrannulet is a species of bird in the Tyrannidae family.It is Endemism to Brazil....
     (Phylloscartes roquettei)
  • Montserrat Oriole
    Montserrat Oriole

    The Montserrat Oriole, Icterus oberi, is a medium-sized black-and-yellow icterid .It inhabits a small area on the island of Montserrat in the Lesser Antilles....
     (Icterus oberi)
  • Munchique Wood-wren
    Munchique Wood-wren

    The Munchique Wood-Wren is a member of the wren family , described as Bird species new to science in 2003. It was first observed by Steven Hilty in the 1980s and not described until detailed studies by Paul Salaman, Paul Coopmans, Thomas Donegan and others in the region in 2001....
     (Henicorhina negreti)
  • Niceforo's Wren
    Niceforo's Wren

    The Niceforo's Wren is a species of bird in the Troglodytidae family. It is Endemism to Colombia.Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical high-altitude shrubland....
     (Thryothorus nicefori)
  • Nihoa Finch
    Nihoa Finch

    The Nihoa Finch is one of the two Endemic bird species of the tiny Hawaiian island Nihoa, the other being the Nihoa Millerbird. When it was classified in 1917, scientists thought that it would be the last endemic species named....
     (Telespiza ultima)
  • Nukupu'u (Hemignathus lucidus)
  • O'ahu 'Alauahio (Paroreomyza maculata)
  • Oloma'o (Myadestes lanaiensis)
  • Pale-headed Brush-finch
    Pale-headed Brush-finch

    The Pale-headed Brush-finch is a species of bird in the Emberizidae family. It is Endemism to arid areas with low scrub at altitudes of 1650-1800 m in south-central Ecuador....
     (Atlapetes pallidiceps)
  • Pohnpei Starling
    Pohnpei Starling

    The Pohnpei Starling , also known as Pohnpei Mountain Starling or Ponape Mountain Starling, is an extremely rare or possibly extinct bird from the family of starlings ....
     (Aplonis pelzelni)
  • Po?o-uli (Melamprosops phaeosoma)
  • Puaiohi
    Puaiohi

    The Puaiohi or Small Kauai Thrush...
     (Myadestes palmeri)
  • Raso Lark
    Raso Lark

    The Raso Lark is a small passerine bird with a highly restricted range, being found only on Ilh?u Raso islet in the Cape Verde Islands. This critically endangered member of the Alaudidae lives in highly arid terrain, and is considered one of the least known birds in the western Palaearctic region, due to its remoteness and the lack of much o...
     (Alauda razae)
  • Restinga Antwren
    Restinga Antwren

    The Restinga Antwren is a species of bird in the Thamnophilidae family.It is Endemism to Brazil.Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical dry shrubland....
     (Formicivora littoralis)
  • Rio de Janeiro Antwren
    Rio de Janeiro Antwren

    The Rio de Janeiro Antwren is a species of bird in the Thamnophilidae family.It is Endemism to Brazil, and is currently thought only to survive in Guapi A?u Ecological Reserve, although identification is tricky and its continued survival has been questioned....
     (Myrmotherula fluminensis)
  • Rondônia Bushbird
    Rondônia Bushbird

    The Rond?nia Bushbird is a bird species in the family Thamnophilidae. It is Endemism to Brazil.Males are blackish and females are mainly rufous....
     (Clytoctantes atrogularis)
  • Rota Bridled White-eye
    Rota Bridled White-eye

    The Rota Bridled White-eye is a species of bird in the Zosteropidae family. It is Endemism to Northern Mariana Islands.Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests....
     (Zosterops rotensis)
  • Royal Cinclodes
    Royal Cinclodes

    The 'Royal Cinclodes' is a passerine bird which breeds in the Andes of south-east Peru and adjacent Bolivia. It was formerly considered to be a subspecies of the Stout-billed Cinclodes C....
     (Cinclodes aricomae)
  • Rueck's Blue-flycatcher
    Rueck's Blue-flycatcher

    The Rueck's Blue-flycatcher, Cyornis ruckii, also known as Rueck's Niltava, is a medium-sized, up to 17cm Old World flycatcher with a black Beak, brown Iris and black feet....
     (Cyornis ruckii)
  • Sangihe Shrike-thrush
    Sangihe Shrike-thrush

    The Sangihe Shrike-thrush is a species of bird in the Colluricincla family.It is Endemism to Indonesia....
     (Colluricincla sanghirensis)
  • Sangihe White-eye
    Sangihe White-eye

    The Sangihe White-eye is a species of bird in the white-eye family. It is Endemism to Sangir Island, Indonesia.Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist montanes....
     (Zosterops nehrkorni)
  • São Tomé Fiscal
    São Tomé Fiscal

    The S?o Tom? Fiscal is a species of bird in the Laniidae family. It is Endemism to Sao Tom? and Principe.Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical moist montanes....
     (Lanius newtoni)
  • São Tomé Grosbeak
    São Tomé Grosbeak

    The S?o Tom? Grosbeak, Neospiza concolor, is a large, chunky finch with a massive bill. It is endemic to the island of S?o Tom? Island.Until recently this bird was known only from three nineteenth century specimens....
     (Neospiza concolor)
  • Semper's Warbler
    Semper's Warbler

    The Semper's Warbler is an extremely rare or possibly extinct New World Warbler which is endemic to Saint Lucia....
     (Leucopeza semperi)
  • Seychelles Paradise Flycatcher (Terpsiphone corvina)
  • Socorro Mockingbird
    Socorro Mockingbird

    The Socorro Mockingbird, Mimus graysoni, is an Endangered species mockingbird endemic to Socorro Island in the Revillagigedo Islands....
     (Mimodes graysoni)
  • Somali Thrush
    Somali Thrush

    The Somali Thrush , also known as the Somali Blackbird, is a songbird species in the family Turdidae. It is Endemism to Somalia.It has a black head and breast, yellow beak, brown back and wings and a grey belly with red sides....
     (Turdus ludoviciae)
  • Stresemann's Bristlefront
    Stresemann's Bristlefront

    The Stresemann's Bristlefront is a species of bird in the Rhinocryptidae family.It is Endemism to Brazil....
     (Merulaxis stresemanni)
  • Tahiti Monarch
    Tahiti Monarch

    The Tahiti Monarch is a species of bird in the Monarchidae family.It is Endemism to French Polynesia....
     (Pomarea nigra)
  • Taita Apalis
    Taita Apalis

    The Taita Apalis is a species of bird in the Cisticolidae family. It is Endemism to Kenya.Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist montanes....
     (Apalis fuscigularis)
  • Taita Thrush
    Taita Thrush

    The Taita Thrush , also known as Taita Olive Thrush or Heller's Ground Thrush, is a critically endangered bird from the family of Thrush , endemic to the Taita Hills in Kenya....
     (Turdus helleri)
  • Uluguru Bushshrike
    Uluguru Bushshrike

    The Uluguru Bushshrike, Malaconotus alius, is a species of rare birds occurring only in the Uluguru Mountains in Tanzania. It was discovered in 1926 and was known to be confined to a single site in the Uluguru North Forest Reserve of about 84 km?....
     (Malaconotus alius)
  • White-chested White-eye
    White-chested White-eye

    The White-chested White-eye also known as White-breasted White-eye or Norfolk White-eye is a passerine from the family White-eye. It is endemic to Norfolk Island between New Caledonia and New Zealand and it is regarded as one of the rarest birds in the world....
     (Zosterops albogularis)
  • White-eyed River-martin (Eurochelidon sirintarae)


Anseriformes
Anseriformes

The order Anseriformes contains about 150 living species of birds in three extant families: the Anhimidae , Anseranatidae , and the Anatidae, which includes over 140 species of waterfowl, among them the ducks, goose, and swans....

  • Brazilian Merganser
    Brazilian Merganser

    The Brazilian Merganser, Mergus octosetaceus, is a Mergus....
     (Mergus octosetaceus)
  • Campbell Island Teal
    Campbell Island Teal

    The Campbell Island Teal is a small, flightless, nocturnal animal species of dabbling duck of the genus Anas endemic to the Campbell Island group of New Zealand....
     (Anas nesiotis)
  • Crested Shelduck
    Crested Shelduck

    The Crested Shelduck or Korean Crested Shelduck, Tadorna cristata, is a species of bird in the Anatidae family. It is Critically endangered species and believed by some to be extinction....
     (Tadorna cristata)
  • Laysan Duck
    Laysan Duck

    The Laysan Duck , also known as the Laysan Teal because of its small size, is an endangered dabbling duck endemic to the Hawaiian Archipelago....
     (Anas laysanensis)
  • Madagascar Pochard
    Madagascar Pochard

    The Madagascar Pochard is an extremely rare diving duck of the genus Aythya, previously thought extinct. Prior to a rediscovery in 2006, the last confirmed sighting of the species was at Lake Alaotra on the Central Plateau of Madagascar in 1991....
     (Aythya innotata)
  • Pink-headed Duck
    Pink-headed Duck

    The Pink-headed Duck is a large diving duck. It has been suggested that the species is closely related to the Red-crested Pochard, Netta rufina and that it should be placed in the same genus, but this has not been accepted by others....
     (Netta caryophyllacea)


Apodiformes
Apodiformes

Traditionally, the bird order Apodiformes contained three living families: the swifts, Apodidae, the tree swifts, Hemiprocnidae, and the hummingbirds, Trochilidae....

  • Black-breasted Puffleg
    Black-breasted Puffleg

    The Black-breasted Puffleg is an average sized species of hummingbird endemic to Ecuador. It has a very restricted range, being found only on the Northwestern slopes of the Pichincha and it is critically endangered....
     (Eriocnemis nigrivestis)
  • Chestnut-bellied Hummingbird
    Chestnut-bellied Hummingbird

    The Chestnut-Bellied Hummingbird is a species of hummingbird in the Trochilidae family.It is found only in Colombia.Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist montane forests and subtropical or tropical high-altitude shrubland....
     (Amazilia castaneiventris)
  • Colorful Puffleg
    Colorful Puffleg

    The Colorful Puffleg is a critically endangered hummingbird endemic to Colombia.In 2005, Swarovski donated funds which allowed the American Bird Conservancy and Fundaci?n ProAves to create a reserve for this species....
     (Eriocnemis mirabilis)
  • Dusky Starfrontlet
    Dusky Starfrontlet

    The Dusky Starfrontlet is a hummingbird species in the subfamily Trochilinae.It is found only at high altitudes in the Cordillera Occidental of Colombia, and was first discovered on P?ramo de Frontino....
     (Coeligena orina)
  • Gorgeted Puffleg
    Gorgeted Puffleg

    The Gorgeted Puffleg is a hummingbird endemic to Colombia. This species was discovered in 2005, but not confirmed as new until 2007. It faces the risk of extinction, and therefore a status of Critically Endangered has been recommended: its only known habitat, the cloud forests of the Serrania del Pinche , is under threat by agriculture, espe...
     (Eriocnemis isabellae)
  • Honduran Emerald
    Honduran Emerald

    The Honduran Emerald, Amazilia luciae, is a species of hummingbird in the Trochilidae family.It is found only in Honduras.Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests and subtropical or tropical dry shrubland....
     (Amazilia luciae)
  • Juan Fernández Firecrown
    Juan Fernandez Firecrown

    The Juan Fern?ndez Firecrown is a hummingbird found solely on Robinson Crusoe Island, one of a three-island archipelago belonging to Chile. It is non-migratory and shares the island with the smaller Green-backed Firecrown Sephanoides sephaniodes ....
     (Sephanoides fernandensis)
  • Sapphire-bellied Hummingbird
    Sapphire-bellied Hummingbird

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     (Lepidopyga lilliae)
  • Short-crested Coquette
    Short-crested Coquette

    The Short-Crested Coquette, Coquette Du Guerrero, Coqueta Cresticorta, or Coqueta De Guerrero is a species of hummingbird in the Trochilidae family....
     (Lophornis brachylophus)


Charadriiformes
Charadriiformes

Charadriiformes is a diverse order of small to medium-large birds. It includes about 350 species and has members in all parts of the world. Most Charadriiformes live near water and eat invertebrates or other small animals; however, some are pelagic , some occupy deserts and a few are found in thick forest....

  • Black Stilt
    Black Stilt

    The Black Stilt or Kaki , Himantopus novaezelandiae, is a large wader in the avocet and stilt family Recurvirostridae. The species is endemism to New Zealand....
     (Himantopus novaezelandiae)
  • Chinese Crested Tern
    Chinese Crested Tern

    The Chinese Crested Tern is a seabird of the tern family Sternidae, closely related to Sandwich Tern T. sandvicensis and Lesser Crested Tern T....
     (Thalasseus bernsteini)
  • Eskimo Curlew
    Eskimo Curlew

    The Eskimo Curlew or Northern Curlew is/was a medium-sized New World shorebird. It is severely endangered ? few have been sighted....
     (Numenius borealis)
  • Javanese Lapwing
    Javanese Lapwing

    The Javanese Lapwing, Vanellus macropterus also known as Javanese Wattled Lapwing is a wader in the lapwing family.This large, long-legged wader inhabited the marshes and river deltas of Java , and possibly Sumatra and Timor....
     (Vanellus macropterus)
  • Jerdon's Courser
    Jerdon's Courser

    The Jerdon's Courser is a nocturnal bird belonging to the pratincole and courser family Glareolidae endemic to India. The bird was discovered by the surgeon-naturalist Thomas C....
     (Rhinoptilus bitorquatus)
  • Kittlitz's Murrelet
    Kittlitz's Murrelet

    The Kittlitz's Murrelet, is a small alcid found in the waters off Alaska and Eastern Siberia. This endangered species is, like the closely related Marbled Murrelet, unusual for seabirds in not being seabird colony, nesting instead in isolated locations on mountain tops, where the nests were known to Indigenous peoples of the Americas for man...
     (Brachyramphus brevirostris)
  • Slender-billed Curlew
    Slender-billed Curlew

    The Slender-billed Curlew, Numenius tenuirostris, is a critically endangered bird in the wader family Scolopacidae. It breeds in marshes and peat bogs in the taiga of Siberia, and is bird migration, formerly wintering in shallow freshwater habitats around the Mediterranean....
     (Numenius tenuirostris)
  • Sociable Lapwing
    Sociable Lapwing

    The Sociable Lapwing or Sociable Plover is a wader in the lapwing family of birds.It breeds on open grassland in Russia and Kazakhstan....
     (Vanellus gregarius)
  • Saint Helena Plover (Charadrius sanctaehelenae)


Ciconiiformes
Ciconiiformes

Traditionally, the order Ciconiiformes has included a variety of large, long-legged wading birds with large bills: storks, herons, egrets, ibises, spoonbills, and several others....

  • California Condor
    California Condor

    The California Condor is a North American species of bird in the New World vulture family Cathartidae and the largest North American land bird....
     (Gymnogyps californianus)
  • Dwarf Olive Ibis
    Dwarf Olive Ibis

    The Dwarf Olive Ibis is a critically endangered bird that is endemic to S?o Tom? e Pr?ncipe. Once thought to be a subspecies of the larger Olive Ibis, it is now classified as a distinct species....
     (Bostrychia bocagei)
  • Giant Ibis
    Giant Ibis

    The Giant Ibis, Thaumatibis gigantea, the only species in the monotypic genus Thaumatibis, is a wading bird of the ibis family, Threskiornithidae....
     (Thaumatibis gigantea)
  • Northern Bald Ibis
    Northern Bald Ibis

    The Northern Bald Ibis, Hermit Ibis, or Waldrapp is a bird found in barren, semi-desert or rocky habitats, often close to running water, although unlike other ibises it does not wade....
     (Geronticus eremita)
  • White-bellied Heron
    White-bellied Heron

    The White-bellied Heron is a species of heron. In India, it is found in East Himalayan foothills. Its grey foreneck and breast contrast with a white belly....
     (Ardea insignis)
  • White-shouldered Ibis
    White-shouldered Ibis

    The White-shouldered Ibis, Pseudibis davisoni, is a species of wading bird of the ibis family, Threskiornithidae. It occurs at a few sites in northern Cambodia, southern Vietnam, extreme southern Laos and East Kalimantan in Indonesia....
     (Pseudibis davisoni)


Columbiformes
Columbiformes

The bird order Columbiformes includes the very widespread and successful doves and pigeons, classified in the family Columbidae, and the extinct Dodo and the Rodrigues Solitaire, long classified as a second family Raphidae....

  • Blue-eyed Ground-dove
    Blue-eyed Ground-dove

    The Blue-eyed Ground-dove is a species of bird in the Columbidae family. It is Endemism to Brazil.Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical dry lowland grassland....
     (Columbina cyanopis)
  • Grenada Dove
    Grenada Dove

    The Grenada Dove is a medium-sized New World tropical dove. It is Endemic to the island of Grenada in the Lesser Antilles. Originally known as the Pea Dove or Well's Dove , it is the list of national birds of Grenada....
     (Leptotila wellsi)
  • Marquesan Imperial Pigeon
    Marquesan Imperial Pigeon

    The Marquesan Imperial-pigeon or Nukuhiva Pigeon is a Dove which is endemism to Nuku Hiva in the Marquesas Islands, French Polynesia. This pigeon is only found in some valleys in the western part of that island....
     (Ducula galeata)
  • Mindoro Bleeding-heart
    Mindoro Bleeding-heart

    The Mindoro Bleeding-heart is Aves native to the Philippines. It is an endangered species. The Mindoro Bleeding-Heart is a type of ground dove....
     (Gallicolumba platenae)
  • Negros Bleeding-heart
    Negros Bleeding-heart

    The Negros Bleeding-heart is one of a number of species of ground doves in the genus Gallicolumba that are called "bleeding-hearts". They get this name from a splash of vivid red color at the center of their white breasts....
     (Gallicolumba keayi)
  • Negros Fruit-dove
    Negros Fruit-dove

    The Negros Fruit-dove is a species of bird in the Columbidae family. It is Endemism to the Philippines.Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests....
     (Ptilinopus arcanus)
  • Polynesian Ground-dove
    Polynesian Ground-dove

    The Polynesian Ground-dove is a species of bird in the Columbidae family.It is Endemism to French Polynesia....
     (Gallicolumba erythroptera)
  • Purple-winged Ground Dove
    Purple-winged Ground Dove

    The Purple-winged Ground Dove is a critically endangered species of dove, native to portions of South America, including Brazil, Paraguay, and Argentina....
     (Claravis godefrida)
  • Silvery Pigeon
    Silvery Pigeon

    The Silvery Pigeon , also known as Silvery Wood-pigeon or Grey Wood-pigeon is a species of pigeon that may have gone extinct in the 20th century....
     (Columba argentina)
  • Sulu Bleeding-heart
    Sulu Bleeding-heart

    The Sulu Bleeding-heart is one of a number of species of ground doves in the genus Gallicolumba that are called "bleeding-hearts". They get this name from a splash of vivid red colour at the centre of their white breasts....
     (Gallicolumba menagei)


Falconiformes
Falconiformes

The order Falconiformes is a group of about 290 species of birds that include the diurnal bird of prey. Most species end in falcon, such as the peregrine falcon, but kites, such as the red kite, are also Falcinoformes but do not end in falcon....

  • Cuban Kite
    Cuban Kite

    The Cuban Kite, Chondrohierax wilsonii, is a bird of prey in the family Accipitridae which also includes many other diurnal Bird of preys such as kite s, eagles and harrier s....
     (Chondrohierax wilsonii)
  • Indian Vulture (Gyps indicus)
  • Madagascar Fish-eagle (Haliaeetus vociferoides)
  • Philippine Eagle
    Philippine Eagle

    The Philippine Eagle, Pithecophaga jefferyi, also known as the Great Philippine Eagle or Monkey-eating Eagle, is among the tallest, rarest, largest and most powerful birds in the world....
     (Pithecophaga jefferyi)
  • Ridgway's Hawk
    Ridgway's Hawk

    Ridgway's Hawk is a bird of prey in the family Accipitridae, which also includes the eagles, hawks and Old World vultures. Despite the name, this bird is a Buteo buzzard and not a true Accipiter hawk....
     (Buteo ridgwayi)
  • Slender-billed Vulture
    Slender-billed Vulture

    The Slender-billed Vulture is a recently recognized species of Old World vulture. For some time, it was lumped with its relative the Indian Vulture under the name of "Long-billed Vulture"....
     (Gyps tenuirostris)
  • White-collared Kite
    White-collared Kite

    The White-collared Kite, Leptodon forbesi, is a South American Bird of prey. It breeds in north eastern Brazil.The White-collared Kite is 50cm in length....
     (Leptodon forbesi)
  • White-rumped Vulture (Gyps bengalensis)


Galliformes
Galliformes

Galliformes are an order of birds containing turkey , grouse, chickens, quails, and pheasants. More than 250 living species are found worldwide....

  • Blue-Billed Curassow
    Blue-billed Curassow

    The Blue-billed Curassow is a species of bird in the Cracidae family, which includes the chachalacas, guans, and curassows.It is found only in Colombia; areas of its range in the south and east are bordered by the Magdalena River....
     (Crax alberti)
  • Djibouti Francolin
    Djibouti Francolin

    The Djibouti Francolin, Francolinus ochropectus, is one of over forty species of francolins, a group of birds in the Phasianidae family. It is critically endangered and found only in Djibouti, a nation in eastern Africa....
     (Francolinus ochropectus)
  • Gorgeted Wood-quail
    Gorgeted Wood-quail

    The rare Gorgeted Wood-quail, Odontophorus strophium, is a small ground-dwelling bird. This tiny member of the New World quail family has been found in the larger oak forest remnants in the eastern Cordillera section of Colombia....
     (Odontophorus strophium)
  • Himalayan Quail
    Himalayan Quail

    The Himalayan Quail, Ophrysia superciliosa, is a medium-sized quail belonging to the Phasianidae. It was last reported in 1876 and is feared extinct....
     (Ophrysia superciliosa)
  • Trinidad Piping-Guan
    Trinidad Piping-guan

    The Trinidad Piping-guan, Aburria pipile , is a bird in the chachalaca, guan and curassow Family Cracidae.This species is only found on Trinidad; it is close to extinction....
     (Pipile pipile)
  • White-winged Guan
    White-winged Guan

    The White-winged Guan, Penelope albipennis, is a bird in the chachalaca, guan and curassow Family Cracidae.This species survives in Lambayeque Region, Cajamarca Region and Piura Region, north-west Peru....
     (Penelope albipennis)


Gruiformes
Gruiformes

The polyphyletic order Gruiformes contains a considerable number of living and extinct bird family with little in common. They are morphologically diverse and geographically widespread....

  • Bengal Florican
    Bengal Florican

    The Bengal Florican, Houbaropsis bengalensis, is a bustard, the only member of the genus Houbaropsis. It has two disjunct populations, one in the Indian subcontinent, another in South East Asia....
     (Houbaropsis bengalensis)
  • Makira Moorhen
    Makira Moorhen

    The Makira Moorhen is a species of bird in the Rallidae family.It is Endemism to Solomon Islands.Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical moist montanes....
     (Gallinula silvestris)
  • New Caledonian Rail
    New Caledonian Rail

    The New Caledonian Rail is a large and drab flightless rail that is found on the island of New Caledonia in the Pacific. It is a dull brown above, with grey underparts, and has a yellowish, downward-curving bill....
     (Gallirallus lafresnayanus)
  • Samoan Moorhen (Gallinula pacifica)
  • Siberian Crane
    Siberian Crane

    The Siberian Crane, Grus leucogeranus, also known as the Siberian White Crane or the Snow Crane, is a bird of the family Gruidae, the crane s....
     (Grus leucogeranus)


Passeriformes

  • 'Akikiki (Oreomystis bairdi)
  • 'Akohekohe (Palmeria dolei)
  • Alagoas Antwren
    Alagoas Antwren

    The Alagoas Antwren is a species of bird in the Thamnophilidae family.It is Endemism to Brazil....
     (Myrmotherula snowi)
  • Alagoas Foliage-gleaner
    Alagoas Foliage-gleaner

    The Alagoas Foliage-gleaner, Philydor novaesi, is a passerine bird which is endemism to Brazil.This species was first discovered in 1979 at Murici in Alagoas, although there have been few sightings in that area since....
     (Philydor novaesi)
  • Araripe Manakin
    Araripe Manakin

    The Araripe Manakin is a critically endangered bird from the family of Manakins ....
     (Antilophia bokermanni)
  • Archer's Lark
    Archer's Lark

    The Archer's Lark is a species of lark in the Alaudidae family. It is Endemism to Somalia.Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry shrubland and subtropical or tropical dry lowland grassland....
     (Heteromirafra archeri)
  • Azores Bullfinch
    Azores Bullfinch

    The Azores Bullfinch is a critically endangered passerine Endemism_in_birds to S?o Miguel Island, Azores....
     (Pyrrhula murina)
  • Bachman's Warbler
    Bachman's Warbler

    Bachman's Warbler is a small passerine bird that inhabited the swamps and lowland forests of the southeast United States. This New World warbler was a bird migration, wintering in Cuba....
     (Vermivora bachmanii)
  • Bahia Tapaculo
    Bahia Tapaculo

    The Bahia Tapaculo is a species of bird in the Rhinocryptidae family. It is Endemism to lowland Atlantic forests in Bahia, Brazil. Until recently, it was feared extinct, but has since been rediscovered and is now known from the List of municipalities in Bahia of Ilh?us, Mara?, Tapero?, Valen?a, Bahia....
     (Scytalopus psychopompus)
  • Bali Starling
    Bali Starling

    The Bali Starling, Leucopsar rothschildi, also known as Rothschild?s Mynah, Bali Myna or Bali Mynah is a medium-sized , stocky myna, almost wholly white with a long, drooping crest, and black tips on the wings and tail....
     (Leucopsar rothschildi)
  • Banggai Crow
    Banggai Crow

    The Banggai Crow, Corvus unicolor, is a member of the crow family. It is listed as a critically endangered species because of the lack of recent records on the species and knowledge of habitat loss and might even be extinct already, but very little is known about this species....
     (Corvus unicolor)
  • Belding's Yellowthroat
    Belding's Yellowthroat

    The Belding's Yellowthroat, Geothlypis beldingi, is a New World warbler. It is a resident breeder endemic to southern Baja California, Mexico....
     (Geothlypis beldingi)
  • Black-chinned Monarch
    Black-chinned Monarch

    The Black-chinned Monarch is a species of bird in the Monarchidae family. It is Endemism to Indonesia.Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical moist shrubland....
     (Monarcha boanensis)
  • Blue-crowned Laughingthrush
    Blue-crowned Laughingthrush

    The Blue-crowned Laughingthrush or Courtois's Laughingbird is an enigmatic species of bird in the Timaliidae family. Presently placed in the massively paraphyletic genus Garrulax, it might be among the laughingthrushes that are candidates for removal to Dryonastes....
     (Garrulax courtoisi)
  • Bulo Burti Boubou
    Bulo Burti Boubou

    The Somali Boubou is a medium-size bushshrike. It was split from the Tropical Boubou as a result of DNA sequence analysis, and this change in status was recognized by the International Ornithological Committee in 2008....
     (Laniarius liberatus)
  • Caerulean Paradise-flycatcher
    Caerulean Paradise-flycatcher

    The Caerulean Paradise-flycatcher, Eutrichomyias rowleyi, is a medium-sized , blue Monarchinae with bright cerulean blue plumage, bare white orbital ring, dark brown Iris , bluish black Beak and pale blue-grey below....
     (Eutrichomyias rowleyi)
  • Carrizal Seedeater
    Carrizal Seedeater

    The Carrizal Seedeater, Amaurospiza carrizalensis, is a recently discovered species of seedeater. These are birds in the family Cardinalidae, long placed with the American sparrows in the Emberizidae....
     (Amaurospiza carrizalensis)
  • Cebu Flowerpecker
    Cebu Flowerpecker

    The Cebu Flowerpecker is a small passerine bird. It is endemic to Cebu Island in the Philippines.The Cebu Flowerpecker is a critically endangered breeding bird....
     (Dicaeum quadricolor)
  • Cherry-throated Tanager
    Cherry-throated Tanager

    The Cherry-throated Tanager, Nemosia rourei, is a medium-sized passerine bird. This critically endangered tanager is an endemic to handful of localities in the Atlantic Forest in Esp?rito Santo, Brazil, though the possibility that it occurs in adjacent parts of Minas Gerais and Rio de Janeiro cannot be discounted....
     (Nemosia roure)
  • Cone-billed Tanager
    Cone-billed Tanager

    The Cone-billed Tanager is a species of bird in the Thraupidae family.It is Endemism to Brazil.It was described on the basis of a single male specimen collected in Mato Grosso, Brazil, in 1938....
     (Conothraupis mesoleuca)
  • Cozumel Thrasher
    Cozumel Thrasher

    The Cozumel Thrasher, Toxostoma guttatum, is a bird from the mockingbird family , which is endemic to the island of Cozumel off the Yucat?n Peninsula, Mexico....
     )Toxostoma guttatum)
  • Entre Ríos Seedeater
    Entre Ríos Seedeater

    The Entre R?os Seedeater or Narosky's Seedeater is a species of bird in the Thraupidae family. It is found in Argentina, Paraguay, and Uruguay....
     (Sporophila zelichi)
  • Faichuk White-eye
    Faichuk White-eye

    The Faichuk White-eye, Truk White-eye, Great Truk White-eye, or Teardrop White-eye is a species of bird in the Zosteropidae family....
     (Rukia ruki)
  • Fatuhiva Monarch
    Fatuhiva Monarch

    The Fatuhiva Monarch is a large flycatcher. It is endemic to Fatu Hiva in the Marquesas Islands, French Polynesia.It is critically endangered, with an estimated population of less than 1,000....
     (Pomarea whitneyi)
  • Golden White-eye
    Golden White-eye

    The Golden White-eye is a species of bird in the white-eye family Zosteropidae. It is monotype within the genus Cleptornis. The Golden White-eye was once considered to be a honeyeater in the family Meliphagidae....
     (Cleptornis marchei)
  • Guadalupe Junco
    Guadalupe Junco

    The Guadalupe Junco, Junco hyemalis insularis, is a bird Endemic to Guadalupe Island off Pacific Mexico. It is often considered a subspecies of the Dark-eyed Junco, for example by the IUCN which lumps these taxa in the 2008 IUCN Red List....
     (Junco insularis)
  • Gurney's Pitta
    Gurney's Pitta

    The Gurney's Pitta, Pitta gurneyi, is a medium-sized passerine bird. It breeds in Thailand and Burma.This beautiful bird has a blue crown and black-and-yellow underparts....
     (Pitta gurneyi)
  • Hooded Seedeater
    Hooded Seedeater

    The Hooded Seedeater is a mysterious bird from Brazil from the genus of typical seedeaters . It is only known by the male holotype from 1823....
     (Sporophila melanops)
  • Iquitos Gnatcatcher
    Iquitos Gnatcatcher

    The Iquitos Gnatcatcher Polioptila clementsi is a gnatcatcher described as Bird species new to science in 2005. It is currently only known from the Allpahuayo-Mishana National Reserve, west of Iquitos, Peru....
     (Polioptila clementsi)
  • Isabela Oriole
    Isabela Oriole

    The Isabela Oriole is an Endemic species of the Oriole family found on Luzon, the Philippines. The bird that was presumed extinct for many years until it rediscovery in December 1993 near Diffun, Quirino, Quirino, and in Mansarong, Baggao, Cagayan, Cagayan province in September 1994....
     (Oriolus isabellae)
  • Kaempfer's Tody-tyrant
    Kaempfer's Tody-Tyrant

    Kaempfer's Tody-Tyrant is a species of bird in the Tyrannidae family.It is Endemism to Atlantic forest in south-eastern Brazil.It is threatened by habitat loss....
     (Hemitriccus kaempferi)
  • Kinglet Calyptura
    Kinglet Calyptura

    The Kinglet Calyptura is a small passerine bird. It is the only member of the genus Calyptura. It has traditionally been considered a member of the family Cotingidae, but following the move of several species from this family to Tityridae - including the Iodopleura which traditionally are considered allied to the Kinglet Calyptura...
     (Calyptura cristata)
  • Liberian Greenbul
    Liberian Greenbul

    The Liberian Greenbul is a species of songbird in the Pycnonotidae family.It is Endemism to Liberia....
     (Phyllastrephus leucolepis)
  • Long-billed Tailorbird
    Long-billed Tailorbird

    The Long-billed Tailorbird is a species of bird in the Cisticolidae family. It is found in Mozambique and Tanzania.Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist montanes....
     (Apalis moreaui)
  • Mangrove Finch
    Mangrove Finch

    The Mangrove Finch, Camarhynchus heliobates, is one of the so-called Darwin's finches. It is restricted to the Gal?pagos Islands. It was found on the islands of Fernandina Island and Isabela Island , but recent surveys have failed to record the species on Fernandina....
     (Camarhynchus heliobates)
  • Masafuera Rayadito
    Masafuera Rayadito

    The Masafuera Rayadito, Aphrastura masafuerae, is a rare bird Endemism to Alejandro Selkirk Island in the Juan Fern?ndez Islands. The species is a member of the ovenbird family and only one of two species in the rayadito genus....
     (Aphrastura masafuerae)
  • Mauritius Fody
    Mauritius Fody

    The Mauritius Fody, Foudia rubra, is a bird endemic to the island of Mauritius. It is classified by BirdLife International as being Critically Endangered, having a current estimated population of less than 250....
     (Foudia rubra)
  • Mauritius Olive White-eye
    Mauritius Olive White-eye

    The Mauritius Olive White-eye is a very rare passerine from the family of white-eyes . It is endemic to the island of Mauritius....
     (Zosterops chloronothus)
  • Millerbird
    Millerbird

    The Millerbird is a species of Old World warbler in the family Acrocephalidae. It had two subspecies, A. f. kingi and A f. familiaris....
     (Acrocephalus familiaris)
  • Minas Gerais Tyrannulet
    Minas Gerais Tyrannulet

    The Minas Gerais Tyrannulet is a species of bird in the Tyrannidae family.It is Endemism to Brazil....
     (Phylloscartes roquettei)
  • Montserrat Oriole
    Montserrat Oriole

    The Montserrat Oriole, Icterus oberi, is a medium-sized black-and-yellow icterid .It inhabits a small area on the island of Montserrat in the Lesser Antilles....
     (Icterus oberi)
  • Munchique Wood-wren
    Munchique Wood-wren

    The Munchique Wood-Wren is a member of the wren family , described as Bird species new to science in 2003. It was first observed by Steven Hilty in the 1980s and not described until detailed studies by Paul Salaman, Paul Coopmans, Thomas Donegan and others in the region in 2001....
     (Henicorhina negreti)
  • Niceforo's Wren
    Niceforo's Wren

    The Niceforo's Wren is a species of bird in the Troglodytidae family. It is Endemism to Colombia.Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical high-altitude shrubland....
     (Thryothorus nicefori)
  • Nihoa Finch
    Nihoa Finch

    The Nihoa Finch is one of the two Endemic bird species of the tiny Hawaiian island Nihoa, the other being the Nihoa Millerbird. When it was classified in 1917, scientists thought that it would be the last endemic species named....
     (Telespiza ultima)
  • Nukupu'u (Hemignathus lucidus)
  • O'ahu 'Alauahio (Paroreomyza maculata)
  • Oloma'o (Myadestes lanaiensis)
  • Pale-headed Brush-finch
    Pale-headed Brush-finch

    The Pale-headed Brush-finch is a species of bird in the Emberizidae family. It is Endemism to arid areas with low scrub at altitudes of 1650-1800 m in south-central Ecuador....
     (Atlapetes pallidiceps)
  • Pohnpei Starling
    Pohnpei Starling

    The Pohnpei Starling , also known as Pohnpei Mountain Starling or Ponape Mountain Starling, is an extremely rare or possibly extinct bird from the family of starlings ....
     (Aplonis pelzelni)
  • Po?o-uli (Melamprosops phaeosoma)
  • Puaiohi
    Puaiohi

    The Puaiohi or Small Kauai Thrush...
     (Myadestes palmeri)
  • Raso Lark
    Raso Lark

    The Raso Lark is a small passerine bird with a highly restricted range, being found only on Ilh?u Raso islet in the Cape Verde Islands. This critically endangered member of the Alaudidae lives in highly arid terrain, and is considered one of the least known birds in the western Palaearctic region, due to its remoteness and the lack of much o...
     (Alauda razae)
  • Restinga Antwren
    Restinga Antwren

    The Restinga Antwren is a species of bird in the Thamnophilidae family.It is Endemism to Brazil.Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical dry shrubland....
     (Formicivora littoralis)
  • Rio de Janeiro Antwren
    Rio de Janeiro Antwren

    The Rio de Janeiro Antwren is a species of bird in the Thamnophilidae family.It is Endemism to Brazil, and is currently thought only to survive in Guapi A?u Ecological Reserve, although identification is tricky and its continued survival has been questioned....
     (Myrmotherula fluminensis)
  • Rondônia Bushbird
    Rondônia Bushbird

    The Rond?nia Bushbird is a bird species in the family Thamnophilidae. It is Endemism to Brazil.Males are blackish and females are mainly rufous....
     (Clytoctantes atrogularis)
  • Rota Bridled White-eye
    Rota Bridled White-eye

    The Rota Bridled White-eye is a species of bird in the Zosteropidae family. It is Endemism to Northern Mariana Islands.Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests....
     (Zosterops rotensis)
  • Royal Cinclodes
    Royal Cinclodes

    The 'Royal Cinclodes' is a passerine bird which breeds in the Andes of south-east Peru and adjacent Bolivia. It was formerly considered to be a subspecies of the Stout-billed Cinclodes C....
     (Cinclodes aricomae)
  • Rueck's Blue-flycatcher
    Rueck's Blue-flycatcher

    The Rueck's Blue-flycatcher, Cyornis ruckii, also known as Rueck's Niltava, is a medium-sized, up to 17cm Old World flycatcher with a black Beak, brown Iris and black feet....
     (Cyornis ruckii)
  • Sangihe Shrike-thrush
    Sangihe Shrike-thrush

    The Sangihe Shrike-thrush is a species of bird in the Colluricincla family.It is Endemism to Indonesia....
     (Colluricincla sanghirensis)
  • Sangihe White-eye
    Sangihe White-eye

    The Sangihe White-eye is a species of bird in the white-eye family. It is Endemism to Sangir Island, Indonesia.Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist montanes....
     (Zosterops nehrkorni)
  • São Tomé Fiscal
    São Tomé Fiscal

    The S?o Tom? Fiscal is a species of bird in the Laniidae family. It is Endemism to Sao Tom? and Principe.Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical moist montanes....
     (Lanius newtoni)
  • São Tomé Grosbeak
    São Tomé Grosbeak

    The S?o Tom? Grosbeak, Neospiza concolor, is a large, chunky finch with a massive bill. It is endemic to the island of S?o Tom? Island.Until recently this bird was known only from three nineteenth century specimens....
     (Neospiza concolor)
  • Semper's Warbler
    Semper's Warbler

    The Semper's Warbler is an extremely rare or possibly extinct New World Warbler which is endemic to Saint Lucia....
     (Leucopeza semperi)
  • Seychelles Paradise Flycatcher (Terpsiphone corvina)
  • Socorro Mockingbird
    Socorro Mockingbird

    The Socorro Mockingbird, Mimus graysoni, is an Endangered species mockingbird endemic to Socorro Island in the Revillagigedo Islands....
     (Mimodes graysoni)
  • Somali Thrush
    Somali Thrush

    The Somali Thrush , also known as the Somali Blackbird, is a songbird species in the family Turdidae. It is Endemism to Somalia.It has a black head and breast, yellow beak, brown back and wings and a grey belly with red sides....
     (Turdus ludoviciae)
  • Stresemann's Bristlefront
    Stresemann's Bristlefront

    The Stresemann's Bristlefront is a species of bird in the Rhinocryptidae family.It is Endemism to Brazil....
     (Merulaxis stresemanni)
  • Tahiti Monarch
    Tahiti Monarch

    The Tahiti Monarch is a species of bird in the Monarchidae family.It is Endemism to French Polynesia....
     (Pomarea nigra)
  • Taita Apalis
    Taita Apalis

    The Taita Apalis is a species of bird in the Cisticolidae family. It is Endemism to Kenya.Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist montanes....
     (Apalis fuscigularis)
  • Taita Thrush
    Taita Thrush

    The Taita Thrush , also known as Taita Olive Thrush or Heller's Ground Thrush, is a critically endangered bird from the family of Thrush , endemic to the Taita Hills in Kenya....
     (Turdus helleri)
  • Uluguru Bushshrike
    Uluguru Bushshrike

    The Uluguru Bushshrike, Malaconotus alius, is a species of rare birds occurring only in the Uluguru Mountains in Tanzania. It was discovered in 1926 and was known to be confined to a single site in the Uluguru North Forest Reserve of about 84 km?....
     (Malaconotus alius)
  • White-chested White-eye
    White-chested White-eye

    The White-chested White-eye also known as White-breasted White-eye or Norfolk White-eye is a passerine from the family White-eye. It is endemic to Norfolk Island between New Caledonia and New Zealand and it is regarded as one of the rarest birds in the world....
     (Zosterops albogularis)
  • White-eyed River-martin (Eurochelidon sirintarae)


Piciformes
Piciformes

Six family of largely arboreal birds make up the Order Piciformes, the best-known of them being the Picidae, which includes the woodpeckers and close relatives....

  • Imperial Woodpecker
    Imperial Woodpecker

    The Imperial Woodpecker is a member of the woodpecker family Picidae. Due to its close relationship and similarity to the Ivory-billed Woodpecker, it is sometimes also called "Mexican Ivorybill" but this name is also used for the Pale-billed Woodpecker....
     (Campephilus imperialis)
  • Ivory-billed Woodpecker
    Ivory-billed Woodpecker

    The Ivory-billed Woodpecker is a very large member of the family Picidae. It was considered extinct for many years until a series of possible sightings beginning in 1999....
     (Campephilus principalis)
  • Kaempfer's Woodpecker
    Kaempfer's Woodpecker

    Kaempfer's Woodpecker , also known as the Piaui Woodpecker, is a species of woodpecker from Brazil. The Type , a female, was collected in the Brazilian state of Piau? in 1926....
     (Celeus obrieni)
  • Okinawa Woodpecker
    Okinawa Woodpecker

    The is a woodpecker endemic to the island of Okinawa Honto in Japan. It is the only member of the genus Sapheopipo.This is a medium-sized , dark woodpecker....
     (Dendrocopos noguchii)


Procellariiformes
Procellariiformes

Procellariiformes is an order of seabirds that comprises four family : the albatrosses, Procellariidae, storm-petrels and diving petrels. Formerly called Tubinares and still called tubenoses in English, they are often referred to collectively as the petrels, a term that has been applied to all Procellariiformes or more commo...

  • Amsterdam Albatross
    Amsterdam Albatross

    The Amsterdam Albatross or Amsterdam Island Albatross, Diomedea amsterdamensis, is a huge albatross which breeds only on Amsterdam Island in the southern Indian Ocean....
     (Diomedea amsterdamensis)
  • Balearic Shearwater
    Balearic Shearwater

    The Balearic Shearwater is a medium-sized shearwater in the seabird family Procellariidae. It was long regarded a subspecies of the Manx Shearwater; see there for more on the Puffinus puffinus superspecies; following an initial split it was held to be a subspecies of the "Mediterranean Shearwater" for nearly ten more years, until it...
     (Puffinus mauretanicus)
  • Beck's Petrel
    Beck's Petrel

    Beck?s Petrel, Pseudobulweria becki, is a small, recently rediscovered gadfly petrel. It is dark brown above and on the head and throat. It is dark underneath the wings with a fairly distinct white wingbar....
     (Pseudobulweria becki)
  • Chatham Albatross
    Chatham Albatross

    The Chatham Albatross, Chatham Mollymawk, or Chatham Islands Mollymawk, Thalassarche eremita, is a medium-sized black-and-white albatross which breeds only on The Pyramid, a large rock stack in the Chatham Islands, New Zealand....
     (Thalassarche eremita)
  • Chatham Petrel
    Chatham Petrel

    The Chatham Petrel or ranguru is a medium-sized, grey, white and black gadfly petrel. The head, back and upper-wings are slate grey, while the shoulders and upper-wing coverts are a deeper grey giving a dark M pattern aacross the spread upper wings....
     (Pterodroma axillaris)
  • Fiji Petrel
    Fiji Petrel

    The Fiji Petrel, Pseudobulweria macgillivrayi, is a small, dark gadfly petrel.The Fiji Petrel was originally known from one immature specimen found in 1855 on Gau Island, Fiji by a naturalist on board 'HMS Herald' who took the carcass to the British Museum in London....
     (Pseudobulweria macgillivrayi)
  • Galápagos Petrel
    Galápagos Petrel

    The Gal?pagos Petrel is a large, long-winged gadfly petrel. The species was once known as the Dark-rumped Petrel, although recent taxonomic changes have eliminated that name from current use....
     (Pterodroma phaeopygia)
  • Guadalupe Storm-petrel
    Guadalupe Storm-petrel

    The Guadalupe Storm-petrel is a small seabird of the storm-petrel family Hydrobatidae. It is apparently extinct....
     (Oceanodroma macrodactyla)
  • Jamaica Petrel
    Jamaica Petrel

    The 'Jamaica Petrel' is a small seabird in the gadfly petrel genus, Pterodroma. It is also known as the 'Blue Mountain Duck'. It is related to the Black-capped Petrel P....
     (Pterodroma caribbaea)
  • Magenta Petrel
    Magenta Petrel

    The Magenta Petrel or Chatham Island Taiko is a small seabird in the gadfly petrel genus, Pterodroma.The first specimen of the Magenta Petrel was collected from His Italian Majesty's ship Magenta on July 22, 1867 in the South Pacific ocean, midway between New Zealand and South America....
     (Pterodroma magentae)
  • Mascarene Petrel (Pseudobulweria aterrima)
  • New Zealand Storm-petrel
    New Zealand Storm-petrel

    The New Zealand Storm-petrel, Oceanites maorianus, is a small seabird of the tubenose family. Previously thought to be extinct since 1850, a series of sightings from 2003 to the present indicate the presence of a previously unknown colony....
     (Oceanites maorianus)
  • Townsend's Shearwater
    Townsend's Shearwater

    Townsend's Shearwater, Puffinus auricularis is a rare seabird of the tropics from the family Procellariidae.Its relationships are unresolved....
     (Puffinus auricularis)
  • Waved Albatross
    Waved Albatross

    The Waved Albatross, Phoebastria irrorata - also known as Galapagos Albatross - is the only member of the Diomedeidae family located in the tropics....
     (Phoebastria irrorata)


Psittaciformes

  • Blue-fronted Lorikeet
    Blue-fronted Lorikeet

    The Blue-fronted Lorikeet, Charmosyna toxopei, also known as the Buru Lorikeet, is a parrot found on the island of Buru, Indonesia. It is 16cm, green with a blue crown patch, yellow underwing bar and red on the sides of the base of the tail....
     (Charmosyna toxopei)
  • Blue-throated Macaw
    Blue-throated Macaw

    The Blue-throated Macaw is a bird Endemic to a small area of north-central Bolivia known as Los Llanos de Moxos. Recent population and range estimates suggests that about 250?300 individuals remain in the wild....
     (Ara glaucogularis; previously Ara caninde)
  • Fuertes's Parrot (Hapalopsittaca fuertesi)
  • Glaucous Macaw
    Glaucous Macaw

    The 'Glaucous Macaw', Anodorhynchus glaucus, is a large South American parrot. This macaw is critically endangered or possibly extinct. It is closely related to the Lear's Macaw A....
    , (Anodorhynchus glaucus)
  • Grey-breasted Parakeet
    Grey-breasted Parakeet

    The Grey-breasted Parakeet is a species of parrot in the family Psittacidae. It is endemic to Cear? in north-eastern Brazil and restricted to a few mountains with relatively humid forest and woodland in a region otherwise dominated by arid Caatinga....
     (Pyrrhura griseipectus)
  • Indigo-winged Parrot
    Indigo-winged Parrot

    The Indigo-winged Parrot , also known as Fuertes's Parrot, is a critically endangered parrot which has a highly restricted range on the west slope of the Central Andes of Colombia....
     (Hapalopsittaca fuertesi)
  • Kakapo
    Kakapo

    The Kakapo , Strigops habroptila, also called owl parrot, is a species of Nocturnal animal parrot Endemism in birds to New Zealand. It has finely blotched yellow-green plumage, a distinct facial disc of sensory, vibrissa feathers, a large grey beak, short legs, large feet, and wings and a tail of relatively short length....
     (Strigops habroptila)
  • Lear's Macaw
    Lear's Macaw

    The Lear's Macaw , also known as the Indigo Macaw, is a rare Brazilian parrot with a highly restricted range. It is metallic blue with a faint, often barely visible, tinge of green, and a yellow patch of skin at the base of the heavy, black bill....
     (Anodorhynchus leari)
  • Malherbe's Parakeet
    Malherbe's Parakeet

    The Malherbe's Parakeet, Cyanoramphus malherbi, is a small parrot endemism to New Zealand. In New Zealand it is commonly known as the Orange-fronted Parakeet, a name it shares with a Orange-fronted Parakeet....
     (Cyanoramphus malherbi)
  • New Caledonian Lorikeet
    New Caledonian Lorikeet

    The New Caledonian Lorikeet Charmosyna diadema is a possibly extinct Lories and lorikeets endemic to the Melanesian island of New Caledonia....
     (Charmosyna diadema)
  • Night Parrot
    Night Parrot

    The Night Parrot is a small broad-tailed parrot endemic to the continent of Australia. The species was originally placed within its own genus , but most authors now prefer to place it within the genus Pezoporus together with the Ground Parrot....
     (Pezoporus occidentalis)
  • Orange-bellied Parrot
    Orange-bellied Parrot

    The Orange-bellied Parrot is a small broad-tailed parrot endemic to Australia.The adult male is distinguished by its bright grass-green upperparts, yellow underparts and orange belly patch....
     (Neophema chrysogaster)
  • Puerto Rican Parrot
    Puerto Rican Parrot

    The Puerto Rican Amazon , also known as the Puerto Rican Parrot or Iguaca, is a bird Endemism in birds to the archipelago of Puerto Rico belonging to the Neotropic ecozone genus Amazon parrot....
     (Amazona vittata)
  • Red-throated Lorikeet
    Red-throated Lorikeet

    The Red-throated Lorikeet Charmosyna amabilis is a critically endangered Lories and lorikeets endemic to Fiji. It is 18cm long and is bright green overall, with red cheeks, throat and thighs....
     (Charmosyna amabilis)
  • Red-vented Cockatoo
    Red-vented Cockatoo

    The Red-vented Cockatoo, Cacatua haematuropygia, sometimes called the Philippine Cockatoo, is an Endemism in birds Philippines cockatoo roughly the size and shape of the Tanimbar Corella....
     (Cacatua haematuropygia)
  • Spix's Macaw
    Spix's Macaw

    The Spix's Macaw is the only member of the parrot genus Cyanopsitta. No sightings of this macaw have been made in the wild since 2000, but part of the range has not been surveyed....
     (Cyanopsitta spixii)
  • Yellow-crested Cockatoo
    Yellow-crested Cockatoo

    The Yellow-crested Cockatoo, Cacatua sulphurea, also known as the Lesser Sulphur-crested Cockatoo, is a medium-sized cockatoo with white feather, bluish-white bare orbital skin, grey feet, a black Beak, and a retractile yellow Crest ....
     (Cacatua sulphurea)
  • Yellow-eared Parrot
    Yellow-eared Parrot

    The Yellow-eared Parrot , is an endangered species parrot of tropical America. It is endemism to a narrow area of andean mountains in Colombia and is closely associated to the wax palm Ceroxylon quindiuense which is itself an endangered species....
     (Ognorhynchus icterotis)


Strigiformes

  • Anjouan Scops Owl
    Anjouan Scops Owl

    The Anjouan Scops Owl, Otus capnodes, is an owl endemic to the Comoro Islands.This species is a part of the larger grouping of owls known as typical owls, Strigidae, which contains most species of owl....
     (Otus capnodes)
  • Forest Owlet
    Forest Owlet

    The Forest Owlet is an owl which breeds in central India. This species belongs to the typical owls family, Strigidae....
     (Athene blewitti)
  • Grand Comoro Scops-owl (Otus pauliani)
  • Moheli Scops Owl
    Moheli Scops Owl

    The Moheli Scops Owl, Otus moheliensis, is an owl endemic to the Comoro Islands.This species is a part of the larger grouping of owls known as typical owls, Strigidae, which contains most species of owl....
     (Otus moheliensis)
  • Pernambuco Pygmy-owl
    Pernambuco Pygmy-owl

    The Pernambuco Pygmy-owl is a species of owl in the Strigidae family. This Bird species new to science described in the 2000s species is Endemism to Pernambuco in Brazil....
     (Glaucidium mooreorum)
  • Siau Scops Owl
    Siau Scops Owl

    The Siau Scops Owl, Otus siaoensis is a critically endangered owl and may be extinct. They live on the island of Siau, north of Sulawesi, Indonesia and are forest dwellers....
     (Otus siaoensis)


See also

  • Biodiversity Action Plan
    Biodiversity Action Plan

    This article is about a conservation biology topic. For other uses of BAP, see BAP .A 'Biodiversity Action Plan' is an internationally recognized program addressing threatened species and habitats and is designed to protect and restore biological systems....
  • IUCN Red List
    IUCN Red List

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