A September expedition to Papua New Guinea confirmed via video the existence of the black-naped pheasant pigeon, a critically endangered species that has not been reported for 140 years.

Dedicated Scientists and Birdwatchers Tracked Down These Five ‘Lost’ Birds A worldwide search party is using 21st-century tools to uncover long-unseen species, one of which hadn’t been found ...

A species that was previously considered lost, the black-naped pheasant-pigeon, was rediscovered in 2022. Doka Nason / American Bird Conservancy Nearly 12,000 species of birds exist in the wild ...

Another recently found bird on the top 10 list is the black-naped pheasant pigeon. The chicken-size bird was found in a remote region of Papua New Guinea in 2022 after not having been documented ...

The black-naped pheasant-pigeon was recently spotted again after long thought lost, but 126 other birds, including the Bachman's warbler, have been added to the list of birds lost to science ...

Two black-browed babblers. Credit: Panji Gusti Akbar Some birds are famous for being extinct, like the Dodo and the passenger pigeon. But how do we prevent species from reaching that point? One of the ...

Since this study was initiated, other lost birds have been rediscovered, including the black-naped pheasant-pigeon, which hadn't been documented on a remote island of Papua New Guinea in more than ...

For example, on a research expedition in 2022, Indigenous communities from Papua New Guinea helped scientists from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology find the elusive black-naped pheasant pigeon ...

“We did it!” Doka Nason shouted as he stared at the screen of a camera trap in Papua New Guinea. He and his team had just captured a long-sought image: that of the black-naped pheasant-pigeon ...

Recent discoveries include the Black-naped Pheasant-Pigeon in Papau New Guinea, which hadn't been seen for 126 years, and the Black-browed Babbler, of which only one bird was ever known until its ...

Since 1896, ornithologists had labeled the Black-naped Pheasant Pigeon as a missing species until a recent 2022 study reported its survival. Cornell researchers are now learning more about this ...