Thought To Be Extinct For 100 Years
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 11, 2014
A Guan was collected in 1876 in a mangrove forest near the border between Peru and Ecuador. A large and striking bird like this would be hard to neglect in a museum collection. Some remained stored for decades before a researcher would pick them up and inquired about these poorly documented specimens.
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