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. There were reasons to think that the White-winged Guan had been extirpated by over-hunting. After all, what was thought as its habitat was heavily deteriorated and converted to agriculture as the human population grew.
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