Hear firsthand about the exciting search for birds thought to be extinct, and others that have not been documented for decades during a free seminar scheduled for September 18th at 12:00 noon EDT. In this Birds of the World seminar, John Mittermeier and Alex Berryman review the past 4 years of the Lost Birds project and describe the number of species that have been rediscovered, which bird discoveries have been the most surprising, and explore the prospects for finding other “lost species.”

The Search for Lost Birds was founded in 2021 with the goal of supporting efforts to search for and update the conservation status of birds that have not been documented in recent years.” There have been a number of exciting rediscoveries of “lost species” in the past 4 years with birds like the Black-naped Pheasant-pigeon (lost to science for 140 years and rediscovered in Papua New Guinea), and the White-tailed Tityra (known only from an April 2006 sight record and a specimen collected in Brazil in 1829).

There was also the Black-lored Waxbill (lost for 73 years from 1950 until its rediscovery in 2023 in the Congo, and the New Britain Goshawk (lost for nearly 55 years from 1969 until its rediscovery in 2024 on the island of New Britain in eastern Papua New Guinea). But there are still more than a hundred species on the Lost Birds list waiting to be rediscovered or, in some cases, proven to be extinct.

Presented by distinguished conservationists John Mittermeier, the Director of the Search for Lost Birds with the American Bird Conservancy, and Alex Berryman, Senior Red List Officer with Birdlife International. This live zoom seminar is free, but you must register in advance at Webinar Registration - Zoom

For additional information, you can refer to the Birds of the World article that provides more information at BOW Seminar: Searching for Lost Birds: rediscoveries, extinctions, and the potential to find the remaining species (John Mittermeier and Alex Berryman) - Birds of the World