A Return to Crow About
Tuesday, August 21, 2007
Thought to be extinct for a century, the Banggai crow was spotted in Peleng Island, Central Sulawesi.
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IN the thick and dense forest on a hilltop of Peleng Island, Baggai Islands regency, Central Sulawesi, two men were working their way into the undergrowth.
All of a sudden, their eyes fell on a brownish bird that was pecking at the ground. The men, both biologists, whispered to each other immediately: “It’s a Banggai crow.”
The brief encounter occurred 16 years ago in 1991 when both men—Yunus Masala and Lefrendi Pesik—were hiking up
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