The black-naped pheasant-pigeon is a rarely seen bird. Scientists documented a sighting in 1882, but since then, only locals on Fergusson Island in Papua New Guinea have seen the bird they call "auwo," and those sightings were decades ago. The pheasant-pigeon was thought to be extinct. But a team of scientists from the Papua New Guinea National Museum, the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, and the American Bird Conservancy spent a month setting up camera traps in the mountains of Fergusson. It was two days before their scheduled exit when the bird was discovered to have been recorded on a camera trap, 3200 feet up a ridge. Jordan Boersma recorded the moment he recognized the bird in the camera trap's footage and showed it to his colleague Doka Nason. This is the moment that ornithologists (and all wildlife biologists) live for. The black-naped pheasant-pigeon is now listed as critically endangered. This video contains NSFW language.
For those who want to see the bird, here's the video.
Comments (2)
This argument has a "I think talkies are going to ruin pictures" quality to it. The internet cannot kill print media, that can only be done by stodgy old print workers that refuse to accept their medium is going to change.
Change, not die.
In my experience (I don't work in marketing, but do work with science magazines) magazine sales aren't doing as badly as people presume. Shares in the overall market have divided, from what I've been told, but this is far from 'print is dead'.
What successful magazines are realising is that the web is a tool that augments what they do, not competes with it.
Every new medium that has come into being has been heralded as the 'death' of something. The grammophome heralded the death of local choirs; cinema the death of live theatre; television the death of cinema etc. And while they all evolved from the impact of competing tech, none of it disappeared.
Print will be around for a while yet, even if will necessarily involve a digital component.
Until then I have my popup blocker though.
I now await the developments in the e-reading tech and those other comparable technologies. I see a bright future for magazines and newspapers in that field.