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Top Ten Endangered Birds

Giant Ibis
Giant Ibis

The giant ibis is Cambodia's national bird The giant ibis is critically endangered with just a tiny declining population as a result of habitat loss, hunting, disturbance and lowland deforestation.

New Caledonian Owlet-Nightjar
New Caledonian Owlet-Nightjar

Critically Endangered Scientific ... The New Caledonian owlet-nightjar ... These birds also forage by sitting on a branch and attacking small animals.

California Condor
California Condor

The California condor (Gymnogyps californianus) is a New World vulture, the largest North American land bird.

Kakapo
Kakapo

The kakapo is ground-dwelling, but it will sometimes climb trees. With its large parrot-bill, a kakapo eats nuts, seeds, fruits, vegetation, and some insects. Kakapos are otherwise solitary birds, but they have a very elaborate mating system.

source: bagheera.com
Ivory-Billed Woodpecker
Ivory-Billed Woodpecker

Ivory-billed woodpecker. The ivory-billed woodpecker (Campephilus principalis) is one of the largest woodpeckers in the world, at roughly 20 inches (51 cm) long and 30 inches (76 cm) in wingspan. It is native to the virgin forests of the Southeastern United States (along with a separate subspecies native to Cuba).

The Amur Leopard
The Amur Leopard

The Amur leopard is one of the world's most endangered cats with an estimated remaining wild population of 30-40 in Russia and China. The Amur leopard is one of the world's most endangered cats with an estimated remaining wild population of 30-40 in Russia and China.

source: thoughtco.com
The Javan Rhinoceros
The Javan Rhinoceros

The Javan Rhinoceros is big and strong, and looking at one may remind of you a dinosaur. Their armor-plated skin looks similar to the Indian Rhinoceros, but the Javan Rhinoceros is a bit slimmer. Of all species of Rhinoceroses, the Javan Rhinoceros has the highest risk of becoming extinct.

Lemur
Lemur

A new assessment of lemurs reveals the primates are probably the most endangered group of vertebrates on Earth, beating out all other mammals, reptiles, amphibians, birds and bony fish for the dismal distinction.

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Northern Right Whale
Northern Right Whale

northern right whale A though the the northern right whale (Eubalena glacialis) has remained the most endangered of all the world’s whale species, we removed it from our Top 10 Endangered Species list a few years back as the result of some good news about its population numbers.

Vaquita
Vaquita

The use of gill-nets in the vaquita habitat is currently banned throughout the vaquita’s range. However, illegal fishing continues, targeting the totoaba for the Chinese market. The totoaba is a large species of fish which, like the vaquita, is listed on the IUCN Red List as “critically endangered”.

source: porpoise.org
image: pbs.org
Black Rhinoceros
Black Rhinoceros

The "critically endangered" classification of the black rhino is due to the species' immense, 97.6 percent population drop from the beginning of the 1960s. At around the closing of 2010, the estimate for the population of black rhinos was 4,880 specimens.

Mountain Gorilla
Mountain Gorilla

Conservation efforts have in recent years seen a significant increase in wild mountain gorilla populations, however, the species is still considered critically endangered. Poaching is after all, still a leading cause of the mountain gorilla's overall decline.

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