The San Diego Zoo Safari Park recently hatched an endangered Socorro dove, which is no longer found in the wild, and is now being raised by its parents at the park's Bird Conservation Center.
The San Diego Zoo Safari Park has welcomed a Socorro dove, a bird native to Socorro Island, off the coast of Mexico. Declared extinct in the wild in 1972, it is considered one of the rarest birds, with fewer than 180 individuals remaining worldwide. Habitat loss due to deforestation is the reason this species has become so endangered… Source