<p>A rare Guam rail chick hatched at the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute in Front Royal, Virginia, on January 16.</p><p>Guam rails are classified as “extinct in the wild” by the International Union for Conservation and Nature, according to the Smithsonian. The male chick will be hand-raised before being sent to Guam, his home country, to serve as an ambassador bird for the Guam Department of Aquatic and Wildlife Resources. Credit: Smithsonian’s National Zoo via Storyful</p><br />
