Long-Lost Babbler Bird Documented in Borneo

Long-Lost Babbler Bird Documented in Borneo for the First Time in Over 170 Years. The Bird was last recorded between 1843 and 1848, when a scientist collected the first and only museum specimen.

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The black-browed babbler (Malacocincla perspicillata) is a songbird species in the family Pellorneidae.

The species is endemic to Borneo.

Its IUCN conservation status is Data Deficient. Formerly, it was classified as Vulnerable by the IUCN.

Only a single specimen, collected in the nineteenth century was known, until the bird was rediscovered in Indonesia during 2020.