"Researchers for the Wildlife Conservation Society have discovered for the first time the breeding area of the large-billed reed warbler -- dubbed in 2007 as "the world's least known bird species" -- in the remote and rugged Wakhan Corridor of the Pamir Mountains of north-eastern Afghanistan...
The recent discovery of large-billed reed warblers in Afghanistan represents a watershed moment in the study of this bird, called in 2007 the world's least known bird species by BirdLife International. The first specimen was discovered in India in 1867, with more than a century elapsing before a second discovery of a single bird in Thailand in 2006."
SOURCE: ScienceDaily.com
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