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Elusive, critically endangered bird—and one of the closest living relatives of dodos—was spotted for the first time in five years
Conservationists are feeling cautiously optimistic after spotting a critically endangered bird in the wild in Samoa. During a ...
The detection happened in October and November near Uafato on Samoa’s island of Upolu. Manumea is a special bird for experts ...
A manumea, the closest living relative of the extinct dodo bird, has been sighted for the first time since 2013, raising hope ...
After years of silence, Samoa’s elusive manumea has been sighted again in remote forests, offering fragile hope for the ...
According to the Samoa Conservation Society, the last confirmed manumea sighting before this series was in August 2020.
No other animal is as inexorably linked with extinction as the dodo, an odd-looking flightless bird that lived on the island of Mauritius in the Indian Ocean until the late 17th century. The arrival ...
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