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[Oversea] Indian warbler “lost” for 139 years makes spectacular return—in Thailand an

Indian warbler “lost” for 139 years makes spectacular return—in Thailand an

News from BirdLife International

07-03-2007

Indian warbler “lost” for 139 years makes spectacular return—in Thailand and the UK

Bangkok/Bombay/Cambridge —Ornithologists across the world are celebrating with the news that a wetland bird that has eluded scientists ever since its discovery in India in 1867 has been refound. Twice.

The Large-billed Reed-warbler is the world’s least known bird.[1] A single bird was collected in the Sutlej Valley, Himachal Pradesh, India, in 1867, but many had questioned whether it was indeed represented a true species and wasn’t just an aberrant individual of a common species...

http://www.birdlife.org/news/pr/2007/03/acrocephalus_orinus_rediscovered.html

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