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Africa’s Big Five and Little Five

10,000 Birds

Originally a hunting term, the Big Five were the most dangerous and prized targets of the great white hunters on safari. They are harmless to humans and their horns are used for wrestling other males for mating rights. In Asia they are even commonly kept as pets! to the far reaches of freezing Siberia.

Buffalo 213
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Australia’s extinct and threatened bird species

10,000 Birds

Australia is a vast country with a very small human population, which mostly clings to the edge of the continent. Rats arrived on ships and cats, foxes and rabbits were all introduced and they were all detrimental to the bird population.

Species 176