The Wildlife Reserves Singapore just unveiled the Blue Spix's macaws and they're beautiful. According to the reserve, there are believed to be none of the birds left in the wild and only around 150 remain in human care.
Overview: Perhaps the world's rarest bird, only one Stresemann's Bristlefront is known to survive in the wild. Unfortunately, this bird is confined to one of the most fragmented and degraded – and vulnerable – forests in the Americas.
A SMALL BLUE MACAW CONSIDERED EXTINCT IN THE WILD
Today, only around 160 birds exist in captivity, making the Spix's Macaw the rarest parrot in the world, with even the New Zealand Kākāpō now officially numbering more.
Bluebirds are considered fairly common, but their numbers have declined substantially during the last century. Populations have been given a boost by the birdhouse boxes that have become popular in many parks and backyards.
The splendid fairywren is one of eleven species of the genus Malurus, commonly known as fairywrens, found in Australia and lowland New Guinea. Within the genus it is most closely related to the superb fairywren. These two "blue wrens" are closely related to the purple-crowned fairywren of north-western Australia.
In the mostly-temperate climates present in North America, you might consider pink birds to be a tropical rarity.
Red goshawk, Australia's rarest bird of prey, in more trouble than we thought.
Status. Overall, the rainbow lorikeet remains widespread and often common.
Only 236 of the 5.5 million birds reported each year had leucism or albinism, making up a tiny proportion of birds with abnormal plumages. In other words, only about 1 bird in 30,000 has leucistic or albinistic plumage. Based on these results, leucism and albinism are very rare occurrences among birds.
About the Purple Parrot
Digitized in 2011 as part of the Book Digitization Initiative offered by the Consortium of Academic and Research Libraries in Illinois (CARLI), the Purple Parrot was a humor magazine published by students at Northwestern from 1921 to 1950.
As a result of the extensive harvest of wild birds, in addition to habitat loss, this species is believed to be undergoing a rapid decline in the wild and therefore, has been rated as endangered by the International Union for Conservation of Nature.
It is fairly common in several protected areas such as national parks and reserves. In spite of decline of the population, the Madagascan Blue Pigeon is not globally threatened and currently evaluated as Least Concern.
A group of Madagascar pochards, the world's rarest duck once feared lost, has been released into the wild as part of a pioneering conservation project to save this critically endangered bird from extinction.
The Rainbow Lorikeet occurs in coastal regions across northern and eastern Australia, with a local population in Perth (Western Australia), initiated from aviary releases.
For immediate release
The New Zealand Department of Conservation (DOC) released 104 juvenile kakī, or black stilts, into the wild in the South Island's Mackenzie Basin Aug. 5 to 8 as part of its ongoing Kakī Recovery Programme. The kakī is the world's rarest wading bird.
Multiple Rainbows
One of the rarest forms is multiple, or double, rainbows. They occur when several rainbows form in the same place at the same time. It takes at least one primary rainbow to generate this sight, as well as several other secondary rainbows. There is always space in between each one.
Dromornis planei was a massive bird with a formidable bill. It belonged to a uniquely Australian family of extinct flightless birds, the dromornithids (mihirungs). Because of the close relationship between mihirungs and ducks, Dromornis planei has been nicknamed the 'Demon Duck of Doom'.
Flightless feathered family. The cassowary is a large, flightless bird most closely related to the emu. Although the emu is taller, the cassowary is the heaviest bird in Australia and the second heaviest in the world after its cousin, the ostrich.
Answer. The cassowary is usually considered to be the world's most dangerous bird, at least where humans are concerned, although ostriches and emus can also be dangerous. Cassowary (Queensland, Australia).
Great Egret
Great egrets are often mistaken for flamingos due to their similar coloring, but the two species have several key differences. For one, flamingos are much larger birds, with an average wingspan of five feet compared to the egret's three-and-a-half feet.
The Pink Robin: The Gloriously Pink-breasted Bird.
Yes, flamingos are frequent fliers. They usually molt their flight feathers over extended periods, and this ensures that they can always fly, but sometimes (especially in captivity) they do molt all of their flight feathers at once.