The 100 most distinct and rare birds (BBC)
By Matt Walker
Editor, BBC Nature
The world's 100 most distinctive and endangered birds have been determined.
Scientists in the UK and US chose the birds based on their rarity, but also how distinctive their appearance, behaviour and evolutionary history was.
The list of birds contains several of the world's largest and most striking, as well as other unusual species threatened with extinction.
Included are the tooth-billed pigeon, known as the little dodo, the Philippine's eagle and a type of kiwi.
Scientists at the Zoological Society of London (ZSL), UK and Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, US created the list as part of the EDGE of Existence programme, which seeks to document the most uniquely vulnerable species on the planet.
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more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/26939570
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slideshow: http://www.zsl.org/conservation/edge-birds
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