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Eagle
Apex diurnal raptors whose stoops, territories and national emblems stretch from taiga cliffs to tropical canopy.
Overall 75 🦉Owl
Nocturnal raptors whose facial discs, silent flight and asymmetric ears turn darkness into a hunting map.
Overall 72 🐦Hummingbird
New World nectar specialists that hover on figure-eight wings and migrate on a few grams of fat.
Overall 63 🦜Parrot
Zygodactyl hookbills whose social brains, mimicry and nest-cavity needs collide with the cage trade.
Overall 58 🪽Albatross
Dynamic-soaring ocean birds whose metres-long wings and baited longlines now share the same latitudes.
Overall 58 🐧Penguin
Flightless southern divers that turned wings into flippers and ice edges into commute routes.
Overall 56 🦢Crane
Tall wetland dancers whose red-crowned East Asian population is the atlas type and a conservation bottleneck.
Overall 53 🦩Flamingo
Long-legged filter feeders whose bent bills and carotenoid diets turn alkaline lakes into pink cities.
Overall 52