One of the rarest and most beautiful birds in the world has been rediscovered in southern Myanmar 89 years after the last of its species was seen, BirdLife International said this week. Gurney’s pitta, Pitta gurneyi, is a brilliantly colored secretive bird of the forest floor and is known in peninsular Thailand and adjacent southern Tenasserin, Burma.

The discovery was made by a team of conservationists from Birdlife International, the Bird Enthusiasts and Nature Conservation Association, and the Myanmar Department of Forests during a month long survey of lowland forests in southern Myanmar.

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its just goes to show you that you never know what is STILL out there.

They're very pretty birds.

Nice find SaRuMaN.

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its just goes to show you that you never know what is STILL out there.

You are so right, loganXman. How many other species that we think are extinct could be out there still. Better yet, how many species are there out there that we don't even know about yet?

Thanks for the article SaRuMaN,
What a great discovery, and such an exotic looking bird