It may not look like
much but this is one of the world's rarest birds.
Sillem's mountain finch
was first spotted in Aksai Chin, Xinjiang, by Dutch ornithologist Jerome Sillem
in 1929. It was not seen again until this June, when another was snapped by a
French nature photographer, Yann Muzika, in the Yenigou valley, Qinghai, 1,500
kilometres away.
Writing on his blog,
Yann revealed that he 'did not venture into the upper reaches of Yenigou
Valley... with any scientific goal, and it was not a birdwatching nor a
photography expedition either'. He added: "It was just a trek with 2
friends, that was about to fail since Bertrand and myself were struggling hard
with a food poisoning.
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