"Extinct" Bird Found!!!.....Photoed...then...

[jkwest]

...EATEN?!?...

A rare quail from the Philippines was photographed for the first time before being sold as food at a poultry market, experts say.

Found only on the island of Luzon, Worcester's buttonquail was known solely through drawings based on dated museum specimens collected several decades ago.

Scientists had suspected the species—listed as "data deficient" on the International Union for Conservation of Nature's 2008 Red List—was extinct.

A TV crew documented the live bird in the market (above) before it was sold in January, according to the Agence France-Press news agency.

Michael Lu, president of the Wild Bird Club of the Philippines, told AFP the bird's demise should inspire a "local consciousness" about the region's threatened wildlife.

"What if this was the last of its species?" Lu said.

However, the buttonquail is from a "notoriously cryptic and unobtrusive family of birds," according to the nonprofit Birdlife International, so the species may survive undetected in other regions.

LOL....wtf...

[pacificvibes]

Man JK, where on earth do you find these stories???

[jkwest]

Originally Posted by pacificvibes

Man JK, where on earth do you find these stories???

I find them everywhere!!!

and look how small that bird was...like it would have actually been filling..I'd be looking for another quail...

why didn't the camera guy buy the bird and release it?

[pacificvibes]

Originally Posted by jkwest

I find them everywhere!!!

and look how small that bird was...like it would have actually been filling..I'd be looking for another quail...

why didn't the camera guy buy the bird and release it?

Well, keep the stories coming.

[PH3AR]

That bird is cool looking

[jkwest]

Originally Posted by P|-|3@R

That bird is cool looking

you mean....that bird "used" to be cool looking...

[Septimus Prime]

"What if this was the last of its species?" Lu said.

If that's the case, it's already functionally extinct anyway.