Large pigeon lost to science for 140 years rediscovered in Papua New Guinea
Written by Black Hot Fire Network on November 25, 2022
The expedition team – which included local Papua New Guineans working with Papua New Guinea National Museum, Cornell Lab of Ornithology and the American Bird Conservancy (BirdLife USA) – arrived on Fergusson in early September 2022. They spent a month traveling around the island, interviewing local community members to identify locations to set up camera traps in hopes of finding the pheasant-pigeon. The steep, mountainous terrain on Fergusson Island made searching for the bird extremely challenging.
“It wasn’t until we reached villages on the western slope of Mt. Kilkerran that we started meeting hunters who had seen . . .
