Lazarus Rising

So if it's one thing we know people are good at it's making other things go extinct. We are living during one of the great mass extinct events. But every now and again, we come across a bird that was thought to have gone extinct, only for them to be rediscovered, sometimes hundreds of years later. Well, this year, we are going to meet three birds that were thought to be extinct only to be found alive and (not so) well many years later.

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Notes:

• Lazarus Taxon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lazarus_taxon
• Lazarus of Bethany: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lazarus_of_Bethany
• It's time to D-D-D-Duel!: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFkdcQgNJHo
• Blue-eyed Ground Dove: https://ebird.org/species/begdov2
• Doves raised in captivity: https://abcbirds.org/news/blue-eyed-ground-dove-captive-rearing/
• Inbreeding depression: https://evolution.berkeley.edu/the-relevance-of-evolution/conservation/inbreeding-depression/
• Bermuda Petrel: https://ebird.org/species/berpet
• David Wingate: https://www.birdnote.org/listen/shows/david-wingate-and-rescue-cahow
• A Tale of Two Islands: https://www.buzzsprout.com/1733312/9071817-a-tale-of-two-islands
• Takahe: https://ebird.org/species/takahe3
• Story of the Takahe: https://www.nzgeo.com/stories/takahe-the-bird-that-came-back-from-the-dead/
• International Union for the Conservation of Nature: https://www.iucn.org/