A New Bird Species Is Confirmed in India
A new bird species has been found in India, the first such discovery here in more than 50 years.

The multicolored bird, Liocichla bugunorum, was named after the Bugun tribe which lives in the area by Ramana Athreya, who first spotted the bird in May. The bird has a black cap, a bright yellow patch around the eyes and yellow, crimson, black and white patches on the wings.

“We thought the bird was just too rare for one to be killed,” Mr. Athreya said to the New York Times. “With today’s modern technology, we could gather all the information we needed to confirm it as a new species. We took feathers and photographs and recorded the bird’s songs.”

Though the bird was discovered in May, the news was kept under wraps until the bird was confirmed as a new species. Mr. Athreya said he first spotted the bird in 1995, “but it was only this year I had a sufficiently good look that we could move into the matter.”

Jin Yanni

(Resource: http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/13/science/13bird.html?ref=environment)