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:
I am trying not to hate this man.
Killing it to save it? That is mental illness.
Maybe he needs what he dished out!
Oh Hell NO! For no reason except fame and a few
Huh?
Idiot
They see sitting around counting there millions that ha e donated to them to do the very same thing slaughter animals
freaking idiots…killing a rare bird is unreal
idiot
How stupid.