Rare Javan Green Magpie At Chester Zoo In Extinction Prevention Attempt

The Javan Green magpie is a Critically Endangered bird, bird endemic to West Java and little is known on the biology of this species in the wild, made all the more difficult due to the increasing difficulty in finding wild individuals.

Maybe just 100 Javan Green Magpies left in the wild. According to Bird Life International, nobody is completely sure how many Javan Green Magpies there are in the wild. One study suggested there are no more than 250 mature individuals, while another estimated a maximum of one hundred. Most forests in the Indonesian island of Java up to 1,000 metres altitude have been cleared for agricultural expansion, mining and logging. Several regions up to 1,500 metres altitude have also been cleared.