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:
Scientists are dangerous to mankind. They become so anilitical, that they loose their humanity, they care nothing for the santity of life, no matter what species. They should be banned. I am offended.(and no, I’m not a Libral) but killing this rare bird realy does offend me. Why not study it alive, why tear it to pieces to see what it made of. FIDIOTS.
PETA where are you on this one?
but a dentist kills a lion and the world goes nuts
He had to kill it to save. That’s what they did in Vietnam didn’t they ?
Why not clone it, , reestablish the birds on the island, maybe it wouldfind a mate.
Really, how different will it be on the inside than other similar birds – I bet it differs more in behavior than in dna.
Precious and unique. Like human babies, only produced to be destroyed by our great decision makers. What a sad day this is.
They won’t be able to fly their homes are hollow and can’t carry much weight
they can but u
It may have been the last.
Oh Creator, please remove Chris Filardi from this earth. And grant that this wondrous bird will fly and play happily forever in Your Kingdom. Amen.