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"Extinct" Bird Eaten by Mistake: Not an April Fools Joke

by George Spyros, New York City, USA on 04. 1.09
Business & Politics (news)

A Worcester’s Buttonquail was caught on camera for the first time by a French documentary team who were filming native bird trappers at work in the Philippines. No one realized how rare the bird was until it was identified as a Worcester’s Buttonquail when a bird expert was shown the film. Unfortunately by that time...

By that time, the trappers had long since taken it to a local poultry market where it was purchased for the equivalent of 20 cents by a local who presumably then ate the bird.

via EcoWonk

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