• Question: what is the rarest bird

    Asked by cwfender312 to Claire, Kate, Matt, Rob, Sam on 18 Jun 2013.
    • Photo: Sam Geen

      Sam Geen answered on 18 Jun 2013:

      I’m not a biologist, so I’m just going to link here to a gallery of some of the rarest birds on the planet: http://www.environmentalgraffiti.com/news-13-worlds-rarest-birds – there are some amazing creatures on there!

    • Photo: Matthew Pankhurst

      Matthew Pankhurst answered on 18 Jun 2013:

      Hmmm, we’d have to ask a biologist – or even better an ornithologist (that’s a scientist that specialises in birds).

    • Photo: Claire Lee

      Claire Lee answered on 19 Jun 2013:

      I was just reading Sam’s link above, and wow – some of those birds have something like only 50 left in the wild! That’s really sad. They do have some great names though!

      Also, Wikipedia has a list of species that are “extinct in the wild” – meaning some exist, but only in captivity. There are quite a few birds on there too:

      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extinct_in_the_Wild

    • Photo: Robert Woolfson

      Robert Woolfson answered on 19 Jun 2013:

      Well the Dodo is so rare it’s extinct but I don’t think that counts.

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