Scientists 're-discover' lost pigeon species in Papua New Guinea
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from Washington Post1 year ago
The odds were stacked against getting a photo of a black-naped pheasant pigeon, said Jordan Boersma, a postdoctoral researcher.(Abcbirds.org)It has been 140 years since scientists identified the black-naped pheasant pigeon in the mountainous tropical forests of Papua New Guinea's Fergusson Island.Since then, the chicken-sized bird has been so elusive that ornithologists began comparing it to Bigfoot.
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