by Basten Gokkon on 27
September 2017
A camera trap captured the
Sumatran ground cuckoo in a national park.
The discovery of the avian
species indicated that the park might be one of its last refuges.
The park agency said it would
investigate the finding to make a conservation strategy for the cuckoo.
Park rangers in Indonesia said
this week that they had photographed the nearly extinct Sumatran ground cuckoo
(Carpococcyx viridis) for the first
time in a protected area in North Sumatra, the first time in 10 years that
anyone has caught a glimpse of it.
A camera trap in Batang Gadis
National Park first captured the cuckoo last November at roughly 8.30 a.m.,
followed by another picture of the bird snapped about an hour later.
Based on the recorded images,
park officials and experts from Conservation International (CI), an NGO,
identified the sighted bird as the Sumatran ground cuckoo, which is listed as
Critically Endangered by the IUCN.
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