Black-browed Babbler

 

The Babbler species is one of the most common in India and one which you can learn more about from my earlier posting here.

 

Below is information on the rediscovery of this species (in the low-lands of Indonesia) which was believed to have been extinct for 170 years. One hopes that the black-browed Babbler also peacefully still lives in the forests of India.

 

To read the paper on the discovery, published in the journal BirdingASIA in an article entitled: 'Missing for 170 years—the rediscovery of Black-browed Babbler Malacocincla perspicillata on Borneo'  go this link here

 

More than 150 species of birds around the world are considered "lost" with no confirmed sightings in the past decade. A representative of Global Wildlife Conservation announced that "Discoveries like this are incredible and give us so much hope that it's possible to find other species that have been lost for decades or longer."

Black-Browed Babbler

The Black-browed Babbler has only ever been documented once—when it was first described by scientists around 1848. But late last year, two men in Indonesian Borneo saw a bird they didn't recognise and snapped photos of it before releasing the palm-size creature back into the forest, according to Global Wildlife Conservation.

 

Ornithologists later identified the bird as the Black-browed Babbler and were astounded to find that the species was alive and well, despite not having been seen since before Charles Darwin published "On the Origin of Species".

 

One Ornithologist reported that the bird is often called "the biggest enigma in Indonesian ornithology—and that its astounding to think that it's not extinct and still living in certain lowland forests."