The new Search for Lost Birds, a collaboration between rewild, americanbirdconservancy and
birdlife.international, with data support from cornellbirds, is looking for some of the rarest birds on the planet. The Search for Lost Birds compiled a list of the top 10 most wanted birds and is hoping that conservationists and the millions of birdwatchers around the world might be able to definitively answer if these species still exist. None of the birds on the list have had a documented sighting in at least 10 years, but some haven't been seen for over a century.
There's reason to be hopeful. In the past year, the
#BlackBrowedBabbler, a bird native to Indonesia, was rediscovered after more than 170 years, completely by accident. And, while an expedition to Colombia in search of the Sinú Parakeet didn't find its intended bird, it did find many other birds ornithologists had never documented in Córdoba Department before.
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