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Credit: https://x.com/ivysince/status/2107528777391849556

Saw this bird recently downtown standing on top of a school bus in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Some kind of rail?

New Zealand’s black robin has gone from just five known birds in 1980 to around 350 adults today, making its 2026 Bird of the Year victory an especially fitting celebration.

At its lowest point, only five black robins remained, with just one breeding pair. Conservationists launched an intensive recovery programme, including a pioneering technique of using other bird species to foster-parent black robin eggs and chicks.

Today, all living black robins are descended from the last breeding female, Old Blue. The species now lives on two predator-free islands in the Chatham Islands.

It’s an incredible conservation comeback, but the story isn’t over. The black robin is still classified as critically threatened, and conservationists are working to establish another population and secure more safe habitat.

https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/315645129

This is my friend’s caique, and yes, this is my own video

Ignore the seagulls they are so annoying and loud

Source: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DceMG9pMGSu

Anyone able to help identify this bird? Spotted today in Tompkins Square Park in New York City