Hiding in plain sight: New species of bird discovered in capital city A team of scientists with the Wildlife Conservation Society, BirdLife International, and other groups have discovered a new species of bird with distinct plumage and a loud call, living not in some remote jungle, but in a capital city of 1.5 million people. Called the Cambodian Tailorbird Orthotomus chaktomuk, the previously undescribed species was found in Cambodia’s urbanised capitol Phnom Penh and several other locations just outside of the city including a construction site. Scientists describe the new bird in a special online early-view issue of the Oriental Bird Club’s journal Forktail. The grey wren-sized bird with a rufous cap and black throat lives in dense, humid lowland scrub in Phnom Penh and other sites in the floodplain. Its scientific name ‘chaktomuk’ is an old Khmer word meaning four-faces, perfectly describing where the bird is found: the area centered in Phnom Penh where the Tonle Sap, Mekong and Bassac Rivers come together. birdlife.org/community/2013/06/hiding-in-plain-sight-new-species-of-bird-discovered-in-capital-city/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=hiding-in-plain-sight-new-species-of-bird-discovered-in-capital-city
Posted on: Sat, 29 Jun 2013 05:20:38 +0000
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