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126 species of birds are virtually “lost” to science, as they have not been observed in the wild for decades. But it is too early to recognize them as extinct: small populations probably still live in remote areas.
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There are 11.8 thousand species of birds known on our planet. Experts have analyzed over 42 million photos, video and sound recordings on the basis of the collection of the ornithological laboratory at Cornell. It turned out that about 1% of the creatures have not been recorded for a long time.
For example, the Jamaican paurak, the copper-colored spiny-tailed hummingbird and the New Caledonian lorikeet have not been observed for a century and a half. And the Papuan creeper had not been seen for about 13 years.
