Thought To Be Extinct For 100 Years
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 11, 2014
Nineteenth and early twentieth century naturalists collected birds on long and arduous exploratory expeditions in the New World. A large and striking bird like this would be hard to neglect in a museum collection. There were subsequent expeditions to the region in search of Guans, but none yielded evidence of the bird.
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