Species with a conservation status similar to the Spoon-billed sandpiper Results 1 - 20
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Sociable lapwing (Vanellus gregarius)
This conspicuously marked plover has yellow cheeks beneath a black stripe running from the black beak through the eye. It has a wh...  More  4 Images  0 Videos
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Slender-billed curlew (Numenius tenuirostris)
The slender-billed curlew is one of the rarest and least understood bird species that occurs in Europe. This medium-sized wader is...  More  4 Images  0 Videos
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Giant catfish (Pangasianodon gigas)
The giant catfish is the world’s largest freshwater fish. It has a whitish underside and the back and fins are grey. The eyes are ...  More  4 Images  1 Video
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Narosky’s seedeater (Sporophila zelichi)
A small, attractive bird, Narosky’s seedeater has a red-brown back and belly contrasting with dark blue wings and tail, the wing f...  More  3 Images  0 Videos
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Addax (Addax nasomaculatus)
The Addax is a desert living antelope and is well adapted to its harsh habitat; the hooves are splayed to enable them to travel on...  More  15 Images  4 Videos
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Northern bald ibis (Geronticus eremita)
The northern bald ibis has undergone a long-term decline over the centuries and is today Critically Endangered. Adults have a bare...  More  15 Images  4 Videos
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Kemp’s ridley turtle (Lepidochelys kempii)
Kemp’s ridley turtle is the most severely endangered marine turtle in the world; in the 1980s only a few hundred females were obse...  More  16 Images  5 Videos
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Galapagos petrel (Pterodroma phaeopygia)
A medium-sized seabird with long wings, the Galapagos petrel is greyish-black across the upperparts, and white on the forehead and...  More  3 Images  3 Videos
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Baiji (Lipotes vexillifer)
After an intensive, but fruitless, search for this rare cetacean in 2006, it is now believed that the baiji may be extinct; which ...  More  7 Images  1 Video
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Amsterdam albatross (Diomedea amsterdamensis)
The Amsterdam albatross is an extremely large albatross that breeds only on Amsterdam Island in the southern Indian Ocean. When fi...  More  20 Images  0 Videos
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Siberian crane (Grus leucogeranus)
The Siberian crane is the third most endangered crane species in the world. It is unique amongst cranes in that it has a serrated ...  More  12 Images  9 Videos
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Mediterranean monk seal (Monachus monachus)
The Mediterranean monk seal is one of the most endangered mammals in the world. The description of this species by Aristotle was t...  More  3 Images  4 Videos
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Leatherback turtle (Dermochelys coriacea)
The leatherback is the world's largest turtle; the largest recorded individual weighed a massive 916 kilograms. This turtle earned...  More  20 Images  9 Videos
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Southern right whale (Eubalaena australis)
Known as a right whale because during the height of whaling efforts, this was the ‘right’ whale to catch, as it is large, slow-mov...  More  32 Images  17 Videos
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Hawksbill turtle (Eretmochelys imbricata)
This Critically Endangered marine turtle has been exploited for thousands of years as the sole source of commercial tortoiseshell...  More  29 Images  10 Videos
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Indian vulture (Gyps indicus)
A robust and scruffy scavenger, the Indian vulture has a pale yellow bill, pale eye rings and a sturdy, black neck and head, with ...  More  23 Images  1 Video
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Chinese crested tern (Sterna bernsteini)
Previously thought to be possibly extinct, the Chinese crested tern was rediscovered in 2000 with a population of just four adult ...  More  19 Images  0 Videos
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Saiga antelope (Saiga tatarica)
Saiga antelope have an extremely distinctive appearance with an enlarged nose that hangs down over the mouth. Despite their common...  More  17 Images  6 Videos
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Kouprey (Bos sauveli)
The kouprey was last seen in 1988, making this bovid one of the most endangered and mysterious large mammals in the world. It has...  More  1 Image  1 Video
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