It was a truly monumental moment for Chris Filardi, director of Pacific Programs at the American Museum of Natural History in New York. He was finally holding the elusive Guadalcanal moustached kingfisher! He said it was like finding a unicorn.
Image, he had been searching for the rare and mysterious orange, white, and brilliant-blue bird for more than 20 years. Then, on a field study in the high forests of Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands, he finally heard the “ko-ko-ko-ko-kiew” sound of what he described as the unmistakable call of a large kingfisher. Find out what he did next with this amazing natural world discovery on the next page:
Simply appalling!
Wow, he looks for it for 20 years and then kills it!! He probably killed the last one! Why couldn’t they have studied it alive????? Stupid!!!!!
I must admire scientists for the brains that they have, they rank up there way past stupid, ignorant, jackasses and all the like. You dare to take a rare bird and kill it so you can study it what an asinine group of people you all are. Such a beautiful bird and you destroyed it. I am so hurt that people with the brains that you were gifted with would use them to destroy something so beautiful.
This will get more sympathy than abortion.
Find him, kill him. We have enough scientists.
What the c**p…
Study the animal, behavior, food, color….etc.
Don’t kill it! No compassion, no common sense.
We need more of these birds and less of scientists!!
Dear God .. Please enter the name Chris Filardi into Your Book of Records. He killed 1 of your rare birds supposedly for scientific research or perhaps he killed it so that he would garner 15 minutes of world wide attention from his peers.
They will pull it’s blood and clone it. Then they will kill all and repeat the process including humans.
pretty unacceptable.