‘It can feel like a detective story’: birders asked to help find 126 ‘lost’ bird species

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‘It can feel like a detective story’: birders asked to help find 126 ‘lost’ bird species

The birds have not been seen for at least a decade – some for more than 100 years – but the authors of a new list of missing species have not given up hopeThe coppery thorntail and New Caledonian lorikeet are among the 126 birds “lost” to science, having not been seen for a decade or more, according to the most comprehensive list of missing species composed to date.The new tally is based on millions of records collected by enthusiastic birders a…