Tuesday 10 March 2015

'Extinct' Myanmar bird rediscovered after 73 years

FLORA AND FAUNA
'Extinct' Myanmar bird rediscovered after 73 years
Yangon (AFP) March 7, 2015 - A bird that was long thought to have gone extinct has been rediscovered in Myanmar after a team of scientists used a recording of the species' distinctive call to track it down. The Jerdon's Babbler (chrysomma altirostre altirostre) - a small brown bird similar in size to a house sparrow - was last spotted in Myanmar in 1941 and was thought to have died out altogether. But a team of sc ... more


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