Back From Extinction
Monday, April 12, 2021
Residents of Kotabaru, South Kalimantan, discovered a bird identified as pelanduk kalimantan, or the black-browed babbler. This species has not been seen since it was first discovered in the 1840s.
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MUHAMMAD Suranto spends his free time looking for birds. The resident of Seronggak, Kotabaru, South Kalimantan, hunts when he is not working—he declined to say what he does for a living. Usually, he catches grey-cheeked bulbuls (cucak jenggot), blue-winged leafbirds (cucak ranti), and hummingbirds. But on Monday, October 5, 2020, he caught an unusual prey. “I had no idea what it was. It was the first time I saw that kind of a bird,&rd
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