The discovery dates from May 2014, but was formalized just recently. The Jerdon's babbler bird supposed to have disappeared here over seventy years ago (since 1941 to be exact), and it has been again identified in one of villages located in Burma.

Scientists from the Wildlife Conservation Society, the Burmese division of nature and wildlife conservation and the National University of Singapore, in fact, formally recognized this bird the size of a sparrow belonging to the passerine family, and have even been able to identify a couple of them during 48 hours of observations.

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