Jerdon’s Babbler: rediscovered in Myanmar
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 scientists in May 2014 managed to uncover multiple birds nesting in a small area of grassland in Myanmar’s central Bago region, according to their report published in the …Read More
Source:: PM Newspaper
