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The five most unique birds in the world

10,000 Birds

But you won’t find Ostrich or another ratite in first place on Jetz et al.’s The Oilbird today lives only in South America, but fossils of similar species are known from Wyoming. It’s a bat-like cave-dwelling, echolocating, fruit-eating nocturnal species capable of hovering on three-foot wings.