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Bird Thought to be Extinct Found — And Then Eaten

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Bird Thought to be Extinct Found — And Then Eaten
Colin Moore

2/20/2009


The next time your weird neighbor lady tries to shame you into quitting dove hunting, tell her you could do a lot worse, and ask her if she ever heard of Worcester's buttonquail.

According to various news reports, the Asian bird, indigenous only to the Philippine island of Luzon, is so rare as to have been thought extinct. But in January, a National Geographic film crew found a live specimen in a Philippine farmer's market. The caged bird was photographed by a National Geographic crewmember, but then it was sold to a passerby, apparently for food.

Though doves are prospering in the U.S. Worcester's buttonquail can't seem to catch a break in the Philippines.

slagmaker

Don't bring shame to our sport.

He died for dipshits too.