a whooping crane in New Orleans, Louisiana
a Guianan cock-of-the-rock at Dallas World Aquarium, Texas
a California condor at Phoenix Zoo, Arizona
a spectacled owl at New York State Zoo, Watertown, New York
a red-crested turaco at Tracy Aviary, Salt Lake City, Utah
a purple glossy starling at Kansas City Zoo, Missouri
a spectacled eider at Alaska SeaLife Center, Seward, Alaska
a Javan rhinoceros hornbill at Cincinnati Zoo, Ohio
little penguins at Cincinnati Zoo, Ohio
a king vulture at Gladys Porter Zoo, Brownsville, Texas
a purple-banded sunbird at Gorongosa National Park, Mozambique
a pink-eared duck at Sylvan Heights Bird Park, Scotland Neck, North Carolina
a blue waxbill at Gorongosa National Park, Mozambique
an Attwater's prairie-chicken at Caldwell Zoo, Tyler, Texas
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Whooping CraneStatus: Endangered The whooping crane (Grus americana) almost vanished in the mid-20th century, but the U.S. and Canada worked to save the tallest bird in North America. An ultralight aircraft led young birds on their first migration south. Photographed at Audubon Center for Research of Endangered Species, New Orleans, Louisiana. Buy a print | License this photo
Photograph by Joel Sartore, Nat Geo Image Collection

A Flight of Birds

A selection of portraits from Photo Ark, a project to document the world's animals before they disappear.

November 13, 2015

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