Top 5 Most Expensive Birds in the World – Don’t Get Shocked!

Birds are able to mesmerize us with their ability, colors and variety. Their ability to sing songs, their beautiful colors and some other birds’ features are able to make them as good pets.

Those features will attract some birds’ parents to buy and adopt them home. However, have you ever thought the 6 most expensive birds all over the world? They will be able to rob your money, but they will surely give you much pleasure.

You can see how amazing these birds with beautiful feathers are.

Let’s see these top 6 most expensive birds in the world, starting from the least expensive to the most expensive ones.

• Flamingo

A flamingo might cost around $1000, that’s why most people keep the plastic variety ones for their lawn. Buying the live one will cost you a lot! This bird is really beautiful with its pinky color that is unique. It’s unique as the pink color of a flamingo comes from its diet of shrimp.

The life of a flamingo is not as expensive as its price. You just need to feed it with special diet of shrimps, mollusks and red algae. This type of diet will maintain the pink color all over its body.

However, if you plan to pet this bird, you need to be ready with its copious quantities of foul-smelling droppings. You will surely need regular ground cleaning.

Flamingo is a bird that can swim and fly. It is a good swimmer and can fly up to 35 meter per hour. It is considered as an impressive creature though it does not look aerodynamic with those long legs.

• Ayam Cemani (Cemani Chicken)

Ayam Cemani can be easily noticed with all its black color. This chicken is from Indonesia. You might think it is only the body that is black, but everything is also black to the core. The bones, eyes, meat and skin are all black! This chicken can cost $2500 and it is called the “Lamborghini” for its expensive price.

If you cannot afford Ayam Cemani, and end up raising or keeping chickens in a farm, then you can decide chicken breeds you can raise. They are easy to breed and they will give you the best eggs and meat for sure!

• Toucan

Toucans can easily be noticed with their iconic beaks. They are considered as the top 5 most expensive birds in the world. They can cost you $8000! Isn’t that too expensive for a bird? No, it’s not for some bird lovers.

Toucans are tropical and rainforest birds. Their bill is sharp and has saw-like edges. Uniquely, their bills are really colorful. The colors can be blue, brown, black, green, red, white, yellow or any combination of them.

The bills are lightweight too! They eat fruits and use their bill to squash fruits and berries. Besides fruits, they also consume small birds and lizards.

For your information, toucans are really noisy birds. They can make their calls sounding harsh and raspy.  

• Hyacinth Macaw

Hyacinth Macaws are known to be birds that have blue feathers and yellow cheeks. They are considered as the most coveted parrots in the world. Sadly saying, Hyacinth Macaw is also the most threatened bird species according to the IUCN.

A Hyacinth Macaw can cost $7,000 to 40,000. The price of this bird is variable, but the indigo beauty stays stable. Hyacinth Macaws are really expensive to house and breed despite the fact that they are very easy to be trained.

• Palm or Goliath Cockatoo

Palm or Goliath Cockatoos are known for having cheeky color changers, in black and red. They have the color patches on their cheeks are able to change color once they feel excited over something.

This bird is native to New Guinea. The riches all over the world keep this bird as house pets in spite of the price that may reach $16,000!

Amazingly, this bird is able to live up to 90 years so it might even outlive you as the keepers! If you plan to have any species of cockatoo, it is important to know how to take care of your cockatoo.

• Racing Pigeons

This is the most awaiting bird species, the racing pigeons. Their price ranges from $90,900 to $1.4 million! This most expensive bird has a fascinating history. Racing pigeons have been used for passing messages by military around the world in the past, and even in the present days too.  

This bird is able to cover thousands of miles at speed. That’s why owning a racing pigeon will bring big income from the race winnings.

If you cannot afford racing pigeons and having common pigeons instead, you can have some tips to train them just like elaborated in before your pigeons ready to rock here is how to train them.

All those birds are fantastic for their features and prices as well. Sadly saying, there are some other species of birds that are endangered just like the endangered species of birds in Indonesia. We need to keep these species of birds alive by stopping doing illegal hunting and destructing their habitats.