BANJARMASIN, South Kalimantan, Indonesia, March 5, 2021 (ENS) – Muhammad Suranto and Muhammad Rizky Fauzan, who both live in Indonesia’s South Kalimantan province, were gathering forest products in an area near their homes when they stumbled upon an unfamiliar bird species. They caught and released the bird after taking some photographs.
The friends contacted Indonesian birdwatching groups BW Galeatus and Birdpacker, who suspected the bird might be the Black-browed Babbler,
Malacocincla perspicillata, believed to be extinct for more than 170 years. After consultations with expert ornithologists from Indonesia and around the region, their hunch was confirmed.
Black-browed babbler, 2020, South Kalimantan, Indonesia (Photo by Muhammad Rizky Fauzan courtesy Oriental Bird Club)
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This is the actual black-browed babbler (
Malacocincla perspicillata) specimen found and stuffed by Carl A.L.M. Schwaner and studied by the nephew of Napoleon Bonaparte in 1850. HowStuffWorks/Naturalis Biodiversity Center/Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0)
Some animals are very rare, it s true. However, it s unusual for an animal to be so rare that one European explorer finds it while cruising through Indonesia in the 1840s, and it isn t known again to science for another 170 years. That is an
excessively rare animal, and the black-browed babbler (
Malacocincla perspicillata) is one of these.
The black-browed babbler is a bird that lives exclusively on the island of Borneo. Part of the reason the bird was lost for so many decades is that the guy who caught, killed and stuffed the first specimen in the late 1840s, German naturalist Carl A.L.M. Schwaner, reported that he found the bird on the island of Java, one island to the south. But even after the mix-up was rectified,
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