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Researchers from Indonesia and Singapore found evidence of the continued existence of a bird long thought to be extinct. Sometime between 1843 and 1848, naturalist Carl A.L.M. Schwaner captured a bird, now called the black-browned babbler, on the island of Java. It was the one and only piece of evidence of the bird's existence for 170 years, and the bird became known as "the biggest enigma in Indonesian ornithology." Most in the field assumed it had gone extinct. Then, in 2020, researchers Muhammad Rizky Fauzan and Muhammad Suranto discovered a bird they could not identify on the Indonesian island of Borneo. As soon as pandemic conditions allow, researchers plan to conduct an excursion to the island to investigate further.
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