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Thought To Be Extinct For 100 Years

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The story of the White-winged Guan , in some ways resembles the re-discovery of some species thought to be extinct. A Guan was collected in 1876 in a mangrove forest near the border between Peru and Ecuador. The decades of storage in a museum came after it was regarded as an extinct species. Most species go extinct.