(CRITICALLY ENDANGERED)New Caledonian Owlet-nightjar

The New Caledonian Owlet-nightjar Aegotheles savesi is a large owlet-nightjar (a kind of bird related to swifts and goatsuckers) with vermiculated grey-brown and black plumage. It has a long, slightly rounded tail, short, rounded wings, and long, stout legs. Its voice is unknown but similar birds make churring and whistling sounds. It is much larger [...]

(CRITICALLY ENDANGERED)Magdalena Tinamou

The Magdalena Tinamou (Crypturellus (erythropus) saltuarius) is a member of one of the most ancient bird families, the tinamous. It is endemic to Colombia, and has been considered possibly extinct, as there are no confirmed records since the type specimen was collected in 1943. The most recent review consider it likely that it is extant, [...]

(CRITICALLY ENDANGERED)Junin Flightless Grebe

The Junin Flightless Grebe Podiceps taczanowskii, also known as the Puna Grebe and the Junín Grebe, is a grebe found only on Lake Junin in the highlands of Junin, west-central Peru. The current population is estimated at less than 250. The scientific name commemorates the Polish zoologist Władysław Taczanowski, author of Ornithology of Peru (1884-86). [...]

(CRITICALLY ENDANGERED)Jamaican Pauraque

The Jamaican Pauraque, Jamaican Poorwill, or Jamaican Least-pauraqué (Siphonorhis americana or americanus) is a species of nightjar in the Caprimulgidae family. It is endemic to Jamaica. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests and subtropical or tropical dry shrubland. It is critically endangered or quite possibly even already extinct due to introduced predators

(CRITICALLY ENDANGERED)Ivory-billed Woodpecker

The Ivory-billed Woodpecker (Campephilus principalis), a very large member of the woodpecker family, Picidae, is officially listed as an endangered species, but by the end of the 20th century had widely been considered extinct. Reports of at least one male bird in Arkansas in 2004 and 2005 were suggested in April 2005 by a team [...]

(CRITICALLY ENDANGERED)Christmas Island Frigatebird

The Christmas Island Frigatebird (Fregata andrewsi) is a frigatebird endemic 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 [...]

(CRITICALLY ENDANGERED)Chatham Island Shag

The Chatham Island Shag (Phalacrocorax onslowi) is a species of bird in the Phalacrocoracidae family. It is endemic to New Zealand. Its natural habitats are open seas and rocky shores. It is threatened by habitat loss, and considered critically endangered by the IUCN.

(CRITICALLY ENDANGERED)California Condor

The California Condor (Gymnogyps californianus) is a North American species of bird in the New World vulture family Cathartidae. Currently, this condor inhabits only the Grand Canyon area and western coastal mountains of California and northern Baja California. Although other fossil members are known, it is the only surviving member of the genus Gymnogyps. It [...]

(CRITICALLY ENDANGERED)Alaotra Grebe

The Alaotra Grebe (Tachybaptus rufolavatus), 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. The last sighting (which may have been a hybrid with the Little Grebe) was in 1988 and it may well be extinct, but all areas of [...]

(CRITICALLY ENDANGERED)Totoaba

The totoaba or totuava (Totoaba macdonaldi) is a marine fish of the drum family (Sciaenidae) that is indigenous to the northern half of the Sea of Cortez in Mexico. Formerly abundant and subject to an intensive fishery, the totoaba has become rare, and is listed on CITES[1], the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species, and [...]