Quail feared extinct sighted after 74 yrs

The Manipur Bush-quail was sighted earlier this month by Anwaruddin Choudhury, a wildlife specialist who writes on birds for international publications, and wildlife officials in a park in Assam state, they said.

"This is good news for bird lovers across the world that the rare Manipur Bush-quail was sighted at our park. Everybody thought this small bird had become extinct," Manas National Park warden Abhijit Rabha told AFP by phone.

The grey-and-black streaked quail, which was once found in eastern India and Bangladesh, was last seen in 1932 in Manipur, according to the Red Data Book of the International Union for Conservation of Nature, an authority on bird sightings.