A rare Guam rail chick hatched at the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute in Front Royal, Virginia, on January 16.

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