The Most Beautiful Rare Birds In The World

Birds, unlike other living worlds have some features. They are the first constant temperature organisms. Notably, all of its members are covered with feathers that are not seen in any other animal group. The anterior members are turned into wings and the bones in the posterior members are lined up to form the intertarsal joint. There are highly developed sound boxes where the trachea and bronchi are located.

Great Barbet (Psilopogon virens) has an extremely large range, and hence does not approach the thresholds for Vulnerable under the range size criterion (Extent of Occurrence <20,000 km2 combined with a declining or fluctuating range size, habitat extent/quality, or population size and a small number of locations or severe fragmentation). Despite the fact that the population trend appears to be decreasing, the decline is not believed to be sufficiently rapid to approach the threshold for Vulnerable under the population trend criterion (>30% decline over ten years of three generations). The population size has not been quantified, but it is not believed to approach the thresholds for Vulnerable under the population size criterion (<10,000 mature individuals with a continuing decline estimated to be >10% in ten years or three generations, or with a specified population structure). For these reasons the species is evaluated as Least Concern.Photo credit: Ar Rahul Wedpathak/India.