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 (Phillip Round / The Wetland Trust) Ornithologist Philip Round stumbled upon a wild, living specimen while banding birds at a wastewater treatment plant near Bangkok, Thailand.
Warbler Shows Up After 139-year Gap
JUNE 10, 2009John Roach, MSNBCUntil March 27, 2006, the large-billed reed warbler shown here was known from only one specimen collected in India in 1867. Some scientists doubted it was a unique species, thinking instead that it was an aberrant individual of a common species.
Then ornithologist Philip Round stumbled upon a wild, living specimen while banding birds at a wastewater treatment plant near Bangkok, Thailand. DNA samples confirmed its uniqueness. Six months later, a second specimen was discovered at the Natural History Museum at Tring, England. Scientists are hoping to find more of the birds, as they know little about them.
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