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Bali Myna
Leucopsar rothschildi
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Critically endangered
Very few are left in the wild. Every rescue and breeding program matters.
Fun facts for everyone
- One of the rarest birds in the world — wild numbers crashed below 10 individuals in 2001 before captive-breeding reintroductions began turning the curve.
- Snow-white plumage, jet-black wing and tail tips, and a sky-blue mask of bare skin around the eye — a striking look the bird trade nearly drove to extinction.
- Found only on Bali, in a small protected area on the island's north-west peninsula; the entire wild range fits inside a 70 km² national park.
- Coordinated zoo breeding programmes across Europe, North America, and Indonesia maintain a captive population that has provided every reintroduced bird since 2006.
- The wild population, while still Critically Endangered, has rebounded to several hundred individuals — one of the most-cited modern conservation reversals in aviculture.
From the master plan
The Bali Myna is the finale species of the Aviary — staged in a quiet bay near the exit where the conservation graphic and the bird share the same sightline. It is the species that turns the zone from a colour-and-sound experience into a conservation argument, and a deliberate handoff toward the Conservation Center finale.
IUCN status sourced from the Bali Myna assessment (BirdLife International, 2020) — listed as Critically Endangered despite intensive in-situ and ex-situ recovery work.
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