Indonesia has more than twice the number of breeding birds as North America in only one-fifth the land area.
Indonesia has more than twice the number of breeding birds as North America in only one-fifth the land area.  There are a staggering 1539 bird species known – with 430 species found nowhere else. Many of these birds live on only one or two small islands.  One hundred fourteen species are considered extremely threatened, the largest number of threatened birds of any country in the world.