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Rare Birds in The World
Philippine Eagle The largest and most spectacular raptor in the world is also among the rarest — it is threatened with extinction as Philippine forests are destroyed. Perhaps only 250 adults remain in isolated & difficult to reach remnants. "Seeing the Philippine Eagle" page has some personal experiences. I chose this as my #1 most wanted bird back in 1975, and it remains the best bird in the world. I chose this as my #1 most wanted bird back in 1975, and it remains the best bird in the world. ![]() Wilson's Bird-of-Paradise Of all the incredible birds of paradise, none is more remote and spectacular than this species whose latin name commemorates the French revolution. Its bare crown glows neon-blue as the male performs on his carefully tended forest floor display site. An almost unbelievably wonderful bird to watch (which is not at all easy to do) ![]() Gray-necked Rockfowl Huge predators and gaudy passerines are wonderful, but few birds capture my imagination as the elusive ground-dwelling enigmas of tropical forests. None are more unique, impressive, and rare than the two rockfowl of Africa. The adventure to reach a cave in which they build mud nests is a peak experience of any life. this fabulous central African bird, best searched for in Cameroon or Gabon. ![]() White-necked Rockfowl Along with the Congo Peafowl (#7 below), African field ornithologists have long considered the two rockfowl to be the best birds of Africa. This west African representative is now very rare in the fragments of forest still extant. ![]() Kagu Once considered virtually impossible to see, this exceptional bird of very uncertain affinities is making a good recovery in the forest remnants due to predator removal and captive breeding. Still a shadowy ghost on the forest floor. Only a few hundred in the wild, it rates very high on uniqueness. ![]() Horned Guan This huge near-mythical guan lives only in remote cloud forests atop extinct volcanoes; the bare vivid red horn is completely unique. Even a 40+ mile trek to its habitat does not guarantee finding any; it took me two trips 16 yrs apart. ![]() Congo Peafowl Someone with enough time and money might be able to acquire the guides or information to find any other bird on this page, but you can't "buy" a look at a Congo Peafowl. Only recently have Western researchers seen any in the wild. Almost nothing is known of its behavior. Perhaps things will change in the Democratic Republic of Congo where it is endemic, but this has been widely considered the most elusive bird on earth. ![]() Harpy Eagle The second largest eagle in the world and the king of the Neotropics, this is the ultimate prize on any New World lowland forest visit. Its range is widespread but it requires huge swathes of jungle full of monkeys to survive. It is everywhere thinly spread and thus missed often even in prime habitat. ![]() Long-tailed Ground-Roller Of all the great birds in Madagascar, this is the one that captured my imagination 25 years ago. It is the strangest of this Malagasy endemic family: a unique mix of a roadrunner, pitta & roller. It is the headline species of the unworldly spiny desert. It is decidedly rare and elusive. ![]() Any Tragopan In my initial picks 35 years ago, all five 'horned-pheasants' in genus Tragopan made my "top 50." Now I go with this single pick, as any tragopan is a spectacular & elusive prize in montane forests of c. Asia. Western T. melanocephalus (shown) may be the rarest & most isolated (in n. Pakistan & Afghanistan); Blyth's T. blythii and Cabot's T. caboti (Chinese endemics or near-endemics) may as difficult to reach; while Temminck's T. temminckii and Satyr T. satyra may be the most colorful. Any one would make me happy. ![]()
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