Posted on 02/18/2009 10:09:04 PM PST by pissant
February 18, 2009A 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 specieslisted as "data deficient" on the International Union for Conservation of Nature's 2008 Red Listwas extinct.
(See related bird photo: "Rare 'Smiling' Bird Photographed in Colombia.")
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.
Michael Lu, president of the Wild Bird Club of the Philippines, told AFP the bird's demise should inspire a "local consciousness" about the region's threatened wildlife.
"What if this was the last of its species?" Lu said.
However, the buttonquail is from a "notoriously cryptic and unobtrusive family of birds," according to the nonprofit Birdlife International, so the species may survive undetected in other regions.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.nationalgeographic.com ...
It’s light hearted fun, not a flippant view of Gods creations. Even most of us who cannot tolerate PETA and the enviro-Nazis, would likely want the Worcester’s buttonquail to remain among the non-extinct species.
I’d be careful with that “God’s creations” stuff though, as when you consider petting a rattlesnake, reading Karl Marx, or electing Barack Obama. Some of “God’s creations” are best kept under a rock or in Chicago.
A new group was formed after dinner:
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I was grouchy. I know it’s lighthearted fun. Still, for many conservatives, there seems to be such a lack of respect for natural things. I don’t think it’s right, and I would hate to live in a world bereft of all its most interesting creations...which is where we’re headed. This wasn’t Teddy Roosevelt’s attitude toward nature, and it isn’t mine. Marx and Obama can go screw themselves, they may have been created by God’s process, but they turned from that path long ago. Free will is a b*tch. I have no problem with rattlesnakes though...
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