Posted on 02/18/2009 3:02:19 PM PST by JoeProBono
A rare quail from the Philippines was photographed for the first time before being sold as food at a poultry market, experts say.Found only on the island of Luzon, Worcester's buttonquail was known solely through drawings based on dated museum specimens collected several decades ago. Scientists had suspected the species—listed as "data deficient" on the International Union for Conservation of Nature's 2008 Red List—was extinct.A TV crew documented the live bird in the market (above) before it was sold in January, according to the Agence France-Press news agency.
Looks like something out of the movie “Alien”!
thats pretty good. my brain put it to odd music
Whoopsie.
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