Indian warbler "lost" for 139 years makes spectacular return
7 March 2007 - The Large-billed Reed-warbler is the world’s least known bird. A single bird was collected in the Sutlej Valley, Himachal Pradesh, India, in 1867. But on 27 March 2006, ornithologist Philip Round was bird ringing (banding) at a wastewater treatment centre near Bangkok, Thailand. Round contacted Professor Staffan Bensch, Lund University, Sweden, who had previously examined the Indian specimen. He examined photographs and DNA of the Thai bird and confirmed the two were the same species. Read more on www.birdlife.org
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