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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 It’s a bat-like cave-dwelling, echolocating, fruit-eating nocturnal species capable of hovering on three-foot wings. The Oilbird today lives only in South America, but fossils of similar species are known from Wyoming.