Kathy E. Gill 🇺🇦“Much of the chaos, lawlessness, and destruction of the past few weeks can be understood as part of the administration’s central ideological project: restoring America’s traditional hierarchies of race and gender. Call it the ‘Great #Resegregation’.”
It’s been 140 years (1882) since scientists saw a Black-naped Pheasant-Pigeon (Otidiphaps insularis). In late September, saw the rare bird. native to Papua New Guinea's Fergusson Island.
#science #birds #PapuaNewGuinea #MissedInRealTime
27 Nov 2022
“To find something... that you’re thinking is almost extinct, and then to figure out that it’s not extinct, it feels like finding a unicorn or a Bigfoot.”
https://www.audubon.org/news/like-finding-unicorn-researchers-rediscover-black-naped-pheasant-pigeon-bird
📷 https://www.livescience.com/rediscovered-papua-new-guinea-bird
‘Like Finding a Unicorn’: Researchers Rediscover the Black-Naped Pheasant-Pigeon, a Bird Lost to Science for 140 Years
A successful expedition in Papua New Guinea captured photos and video of the chicken-size pigeon, highlighting the value of local ecological knowledge as scientists seek out other long-missing...