Little is known about the creature with brown and grey feathers, which has been "missing" longer than any other Asian bird. - BirdLife International
JAKARTA (AFP): A bird last seen more than 170 years ago in the rainforests of Borneo has been rediscovered, amazing conservationists who have long assumed it was extinct.
The Black-browed babbler has only ever been documented once -- when it was first described by scientists around 1848 -- eluding all subsequent efforts to find it.
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