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 ...

After 45 years of mystery, in 2022, birdwatcher and conservationist James Eaton tracked down a warbler not far away, in a potato field. Black-naped pheasant-pigeon ...

In case you didn't know, the black-naped pheasant pigeon is a large bird that resides in the rainforests of New Guinea. The species is now super rare, largely due to the deforestation in the region.

In 2022, a rare pigeon species was photographed, marking the first time a human documented the bird in 140 years. Mittermeier called the documentation of the black-naped pheasant pigeon "the kind ...

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 ...

It was the oddly named black-naped pheasant-pigeon, thought lost to science, possibly extinct. It was seen and photographed on mountainous terrain on Papua New Guinea’s Fergusson Islands.

It is also possible that these birds are lost only to scientists, and local and Indigenous communities are still sighting these species, as was the case with the black-naped pheasant-pigeon in Papua ...

The search is already underway. Since the study’s initiation, several lost birds have been rediscovered, including the black-naped pheasant-pigeon, which hadn’t been documented on a remote island of ...

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 ...