New Bird Species Discovered

A new species of bird has been discovered on the China-India border, researchers said. Writing in the journal Avian Research, researchers from Michigan State University and Uppsala University in Sweden are calling the new bird the Himalayan forest thrush, or Zoothera Salimalii, which is an nod to Indian ornithologist Sálim Ali. At first, the researchers thought the thrush was the same as another, the plain-backed Zoothera mollissima, but later realized it was a different species...

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