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Last fall, an international team arrived on a small Papua New Guinea island to look for the elusive Black-naped Pheasant Pigeon. To track it down, they needed help from the experts: the island’s...

An elusive, exotic species of spectacularly-colored pigeon has been caught on video camera for the first time after ...

The black-naped pheasant-pigeon has been documented for the first time since 1882 and captured on camera for the first time ever.

PRESS RELEASE: An expedition with the Search for Lost Birds captured the first-ever photos and video of the black-naped pheasant-pigeon…

After 140 years, a pigeon subspecies lost to science has been found again on Fergusson Island off eastern Papua New Guinea. Using a remote camera trap, researchers photographed the black-naped pheasant-pigeon (Otidiphaps nobilis insularis), a large, ground-dwelling bird, for the first time since it was described in 1883. “After a month of searching, seeing those […]

A bird thought to be extinct for 140 years has been rediscovered in the forests of Papua New Guinea.