Conservation Celebrations With The The Green Up Girl®
Has the extinct Black-naped pheasant-pigeon come back to life?
- Author: Vários
- Narrator: Vários
- Publisher: Podcast
- Duration: 0:06:12
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Yes, according to a breaking story from the BBC News in Sydney Australia. A team of researchers have captured on camera the once thought to be extinct Black-naped pheasant-pigeon. Can an extinct pheasant-pigeon really come back to life or has it been hiding from humans for over 140 years? Yes, according to a breaking story from the BBC News in Sydney Australia. A team of researchers have captured on camera the once thought to be extinct Black-naped pheasant-pigeon. But where did they find it? A team made up of members from the American Bird Conservancy, the Cornell Lab, and the Papua New Guinea National Museum, along with local Papua New Guineans traveled to a tiny island called Fergusson Island, its off the coast of Papua, New Guinea They spent a month fending off bloodthirsty mosquitoes and leeches while hiking over mountain ridges, crossing roaring rivers, and trudging through the tropical forest, all with the hope of finding a bird that has not been seen since 1882. Jordan Boersma, co-leader of the ex