Giant ibis, little dodo, and the kakapo: meet the 100 weirdest and most endangered birds

Mongabay
By Jeremy HanceApr 10, 2014, 12:00 pm59 pts
The comic dodo, the stately great auk, the passenger pigeon blotting out the skies: human kind has wiped out nearly 200 species of birds in the last five hundred years. Now, if we don't act soon we'll add many new ones to this list: birds such as the giant ibis, the plains-wanderer, and the crow honeyeater. And…

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