Oops! ‘Extinct’ Bird Sold and Eaten
April 4, 2009 · Print This Article
It may sound like a belated April Fool’s Day joke, but it’s not: a bird that was thought to be extinct was found in the Philippines, and promptly eaten. A crew was filming a documentary about the mind blowingly-exciting topic of bird trapping when it captured footage of “some random bird” that was trapped and then sold at the market for 20 cents. They didn’t think much of it until they screened a cut for the World Bird Club… and found out that it was a Worcester’s Buttonquail.
The good news is, there are probably more where that one came from – but it’s ironic and funny that the name of the bird trapping documentary is ‘Bye-bye Birdie’.
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aw- it’s so pretty! I can’t imagine how many animals are hidden away that we think are gone.
Even though it got eeaten it makes m ehappy to think about all the secrets of life still tucked away in random places.
This bird so cute. v should protect all animals in this world and make sure my children and future generation still see all types animals in this world.