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In this list of birds by common name 11,278 extant and recently extinct (since 1500) bird species are recognised. [1] Species marked with a "†" are extinct.
[1] [2] 2% of all evaluated avian species are listed as critically endangered. No subpopulations of birds have been evaluated by the IUCN. Additionally 55 avian species (0.48% of those evaluated) are listed as data deficient, meaning there is insufficient information for a full assessment of conservation status.
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Of all evaluated avian species, 4% are listed as endangered. No subpopulations of birds have been evaluated by the IUCN. For a species to be considered endangered by the IUCN it must meet certain quantitative criteria which are designed to classify taxa facing "a very high risk of extinction".
The wetland birds with their distinctive spoon-shaped bill nested at the RSPB’s Ouse Washes reserve in East Anglia for the first time since the 17th century, and also saw breeding numbers ...
SHE DID IT AGAIN! Wisdom, the world’s oldest known wild bird, is back with a new partner and just laid yet another egg. At an approximate age of 74, the queen of seabirds returned to Midway ...
The World Center for Birds of Prey is one of the few places in the world where you can see a California condor, the largest bird in North America. Some of the world’s rarest birds are being ...
Despite decades of intensive protection, the black stilt remains one of the rarest species of wading bird, and one of the most endangered birds in the world. The population may have numbered 500–1000 birds in the 1940s, [ 5 ] but began to rapidly decline in the 1950s, and just 68 adults were counted in 1962. [ 2 ]