Bird Rediscovered After 80 Years
Thursday, June 11, 2009
Beck's petrel, a small seabird relative of albatrosses and shearwaters, was rediscovered in 2007 by Israeli ornithologist Hadoram Shirihai in a group of Pacific islands near Papua New Guinea. There hadn't been a confirmed sighting of the bird since 1929. Read more in Wikipedia. - June 11, 2009
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