Indonesia, March 5: The enigmatic black-browed babbler, a bird which hasn’t been spotted for the last 170 years was seen in Indonesia recently. The black-browed babbler is a small brown and grey songbird with a distinctive broad, black stripe running all the way around its head. It was first described in 1850 by an ornithologist (a person who studies birds) after seeing only one specimen. Then it was never sighted and thought to be extinct.
In October 2020, a specimen was found by two local men during their trip to the forest in South Kalimantan, one of Indonesia’s provinces on the island of Borneo. They took a picture of it and circulated it to bird experts so they could identify it. The ornithologists at Indonesia were surprised to see the bird after 170 years after the last sighting. They are yet to get the details of the bird and its habitat.
