The Guam kingfisher is making a comeback. Once extinct in the wild, this little bird is being re-introduced with high hopes ...

Time is running out for the great Indian bustard. In the wild, fewer than 150 of these critically endangered ostrich-like birds survive, mostly in India’s Rajasthan state. But a captive-breeding ...

Struthio anderssoni, also known as the East Asian ostrich, is an extinct species of ostrich that lived in the Pleistocene and Holocene in China and Mongolia." Eleven radiocarbon dates were ...

All three species became locally extinct due to hunting, off-road driving, camel grazing, and threats presented by non-native species. The last ostrich in the Arabian Peninsula was recorded in 1939.