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Endangered
and Extinct

Birds

Jennifer Boothroyd

For Grace
-J. B.

Copyright 2014 by Lerner Publishing Group, Inc.

All rights reserved. International copyright secured. No part of this book may be reproduced,
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Lerner Publications Company
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Minneapolis, MN 55401 U.S.A.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Boothroyd, Jennifer, 1972

Endangered and extinct birds / by Jennifer Boothroyd.
pages cm. (Lightning bolt books. Animals in danger)
Includes index.
ISBN 9781467713306 (lib. bdg. : alk. paper)
ISBN 9781467724937 (eBook)
1. Rare birdsJuvenile literature. 2. Extinct birdsJuvenile literature. 3. Endangered
speciesJuvenile literature. I. Title.
QL676.7.B66 2014
598.168dc23

2013015572

Manufactured in the United States of America
1 PC 12/31/13

Table of Contents

Helping Endangered
Birds

What You
Can Do

A Remarkable
Recovery

Birds

How can you tell this is a bird ?
It has feathers. It has a beak.
It has wings. It has two legs.

This bird is
watching the
eggs in its nest.

Birds live around the world.
Some are in trouble.

They are
endangered .

Endangered
animals are
in danger of
dying out.

The Philippine
eagle is
endangered.

Endangered
Birds

Look at those wings!
The California condor is
one of the largest birds
in the United States.
It is endangered.

The wingspan of
some condors is 9.5
feet (2.9 meters).

Condors are scavengers.

They eat dead animals.

The crested ibis lives in China.
These birds are endangered.

Their habitat has been
damaged.

A habitat
is where an
animal lives.

These birds use their
long bills to find food
in muddy wetlands.

They eat frogs and fish.

The Bali mynah has bright
blue skin around its eyes. Its
home is an island called Bali.

Bali mynahs are
in danger of
dying out.

The mynah makes many
different calls.

Calls are
sounds birds make.

Too many of these birds
were caught to sell as pets.
Not many are left in the wild.

This tiny bird is the colorful
puffleg. This type of
hummingbird is endangered.

The colorful
puffleg eats
nectar from
flowers.

The puffleg lives high in the
Andes Mountains of Colombia.

Pufflegs have fluffy
feathers above their legs.

These are northern rockhopper
penguins. Do you like their
spiky feathers?

Not many northern
rockhoppers are
left in the wild.

These birds live on islands
in the Indian and Atlantic
Oceans.

The penguins
build nests on rocky
ground.

Extinct

Birds

Confuciusornis is
extinct . Extinct is
a word to describe an
animal or a plant that has
already died out. Confuciusornis
was about the size of a pigeon.
It used its wings to fly.

Confuciusornis
lived more than
million years ago.

People learned about
Confuciusornis by studying
its fossils.

Fossils are
hardened remains of
animals or plants.

The dodo was very unusual.
This bird had small wings.
But it couldnt fly.

Soft feathers
covered the dodos
body. Its face did not
have any feathers.

Nothing hunted the
dodo until people
came to its island.
The dodo became
extinct in 1681.

These birds lived on a small
island in the Indian Ocean.

They laid their eggs in
nests on the ground.

Moas used to live in New
Zealand. Some moas were
huge.

The giant moa could
grow to feet (3 m) tall!

The last moas died
out less than seven
hundred years ago.

female moa

male moa

common
pigeon

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