Galápagos Island Bird Considered Extinct Seen After 190 Years
The Galapagos Rail had not been seen on this island since Charles Darwin's visit to the archipelago in 1835, until now.
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Peru and Ecuador declare bird flu health emergency; 10,000 pelicans dead, 180,000 chickens to be slaughtered
Local authorities said the detected contagion represents only 0.15% of the country’s poultry population, which counts some 263 million chickens and 16 million laying birds. Ecuador’s poultry ...
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Galápagos Rail Rediscovered After 190 Years Following Island Restoration
A bird seen by Charles Darwin on his visit to Floreana island in 1835 has been observed in the wild there for the first time ...
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A bird last seen by Darwin 190 years ago reappears on a Galápagos island
The Galápagos rail, a small, black, ground bird, hadn’t been seen on Floreana Island in the Galápagos since 1835, when Charles Darwin first described it. That changed recently when researchers ...
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Creature observed by Darwin thought extinct on Galápagos island — until now. See it
In the Galápagos Islands off the coast of Ecuador, a small creature was missing ... Darwin recorded the presence of a small bird on the island of Floreana. It was described and named the ...
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A Showboating Bird
Just a handful of ornithologists study the club-winged manakin, which lives in Colombia and Ecuador. Probably none is more in tune with the bird than ... It is the only species that uses its ...
The vanishing bird: The missing black petrels of Great Barrier Island
They start as a downy ball of fluff on a remote New Zealand island. Then they fledge across the Pacific. Only a handful have ever been found again.