This is totally weak...
A bird last seen alive in India almost 140 years ago and considered extinct has been rediscovered at a Thai sewage works by a British researcher.

Philip Round's large-billed reed-warbler: 'It felt as if I was holding a living dodo'

The large-billed reed-warbler, a small, rather plain brown creature, is considered the world's least-known bird.

But the uninspiring nature of its plumage was a direct contrast to the excitement of ornithologists around the world after the find was announced yesterday. Philip Round, assistant biology professor at Mahidol University in Bangkok, made the discovery by chance when he was ringing birds in reed beds at a waste water treatment plant south-west of the Thai capital.
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