Scientists have discovered a breeding site for the Large-billed Reed-Warbler Acrocephalus orinus, a bird first discovered in 1867 and not seen again until 2006. The find, in the Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Region of Tajikistan, is the first confirmed breeding site though other researchers found a likely breeding site in Afghanistan last year.
Corey is a New Yorker who lived most of his life in upstate New York but has lived in Queens since 2008. He's only been birding since 2005 but has garnered a respectable life list by birding whenever he wasn't working as a union representative or spending time with his family. He lives in Forest Hills with Daisy, their son, Desmond Shearwater, and their indoor cat, B.B. His bird photographs have appeared on the Today Show, in Birding, Living Bird Magazine, Bird Watcher's Digest, and many other fine publications. He is also the author of the American Birding Association Field Guide to the Birds of New York.
It’s absolutely amazing to think that there are still areas in this world so untouched by human interference, that a bird species can disappear for over a hundred years without being seen.