“Extinct” Black-naped Pheasant Pigeon rediscovered after 140 year search

Black-naped Pheasant-Pigeon caught on camera. Video: Jason Gregg/American Bird Conservancy

“Jordan Boersma began looking through images on the camera traps he’d just collected, not expecting to find anything. “Suddenly I was confronted with this image of what at that time felt like a mythical creature,” says Boersma, a postdoctoral researcher at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. “It was, without exaggeration, the most surreal moment of my life.” The camera’s display was tiny, but there was no mistaking the creature it showed: the Black-naped Pheasant-Pigeon, a species that hasn’t been documented by scientists since it was first described in 1882.” Read More>>>

The Original Illustration of the Black-Naped Pheasant-Pigeon