New bird to science emphasizes the critical need to conserve the remaining dry forests of Madagascar

Wednesday, February 23, 2011 - 16:31 in Biology & Nature

In a recent issue of the scientific journal Zootaxa, researchers from Madagascar and the United States described a new species of forest-dwelling rail. The new bird was named Mentocrex beankaensis,...

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