Elusive Bird Seen Near Papua New Guinea

March 8th, 2008 in Biology /
Elusive Bird Seen Near Papua New Guinea (AP)

In this photo provided by Hadoram Shirihai, and the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, a Beck's petrel is seen in the summer of 2007 in the Bismarck Archipelago, Papua New Guinea. The pale-bellied bird species last seen in the 1920s and long thought to be extinct has been rediscovered near Papua New Guinea. (AP Photo/Hadoram Shirhai, RSPB)

(AP) -- A pale-bellied bird species last seen in the 1920s and long thought to be extinct has been rediscovered near Papua New Guinea. The Beck's petrel was photographed last summer by an Israeli ornithologist in the Bismarck Archipelago, a group of islands northeast of Papua New Guinea.

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