Only one stuffed animal (left) and found in October last year▶ Click here to enlarge
According to the AFP and the Guardian on the 26th, in the latest issue of the bird magazine’Birding ASIA’, two locals found a’Black-browed babbler’ bird in Kalimantan, southern Indonesian island of Borneo last October. The thesis was published.
This bird is native to Borneo and is called the’mysterious bird’ with brown and gray feathers.
The bird is known to have been named’Black-browed babbler’ by Biologist Charles Lucien Bonaparte, Napoleon’s nephew, after being discovered on the island of Borneo in the 1840s.
There was only one specimen, and since it has never been found in the wild again, it is considered the’greatest mystery of Indonesian ornithology’.
Found in Kalimantan, southern Borneo in October last year.▶ Click here to enlarge
In October last year, two locals, Muhamat Suranto and Muhamat Rizuki Pauzan, living in southern Kalimantan, accidentally caught the bird, took a picture, and sent it away.
As a result of passing the photo to a birdwatching group, they learned that they had discovered a’mysterious bird’.
“I just thought I had found a bird I hadn’t seen well before, but I didn’t know it would be so special,” Muhamat said. “It feels surreal to find a bird that was supposed to be extinct.”
“This discovery has ended more than 100 years of chaos,” said Pandan Gusti Akbar of the Indonesian ornithological group Birdpacker. “We now know that this bird lives in southeastern Borneo and what it looks like.” And was happy.
He who led the thesis, added, “The moment I realized that the bird in the picture was that bird was like the moment I shouted’Eureka!'”
“The bird is sure to be a Black-browed babbler”Indonesia, which is made up of 17,000 islands, has more than 1,700 bird species, and some birds have not yet been studied.
In January of last year, the National University of Singapore and the Indonesian Institute of Science explored Talyabu Island in North Maluku and the Peleng Islands and Togian Islands in Sulawesi, resulting in five new songbirds and five new subspecies. He also published a thesis stating that he discovered.
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