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March 2, 2009
Extremely Rare Bird Sold for 20¢ and Eaten
http://ecoworldly.com/2009/02/26/extremely-rare-bird-photographed-for-first-time-then-eaten/
A species of bird so rare it was thought perhaps to be extinct was captured on video and still images in the Phillipines province of Nueva Vizcaya... right before it was cooked and eaten.
The Worcester's buttonquail (Turnix worcesteri) lives only in the Phillipines, but had not been seen in many years, and was previously only known through illustration based on dead specimens collected centuries ago. One wild live buttonquail was inadvertently filmed in a mountainous area during the making of a documentary on the traditional methods of bird-trapping in northern Luzon. But neither the local crew nor the bird-trappers at the time of the filming understood how rare the bird was, so it was sold at a poultry market, then cooked and eaten.
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Posted by Rob Kiser on March 2, 2009 at 12:33 PM
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This is so frigging funny. Rachel and I cant stop laughing. Awsome.
Posted by: mop on March 2, 2009 at 7:21 PM