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Many can name a panda or a pangolin, but the yellow-crested cockatoo barely gets a nod. That’s wild, considering this little parrot has a built-in mohawk and enough personality to fill a room. But ...

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Scientists photographed a “lost bird,” a yellow-crested helmetshrike, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Photo shows a representative area of the Itombwe mountains. Screengrab from David Akana's ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. A long lost bird species has been captured in photographs for the first ...

Within the forests of the Democratic Republic of the Congo flies a bird unseen for nearly 20 years. That is until scientists from the University of Texas at El Paso went searching. The yellow-crested ...

KINSHASA, Congo - The yellow-crested helmetshrike is a species of bird categorized as a "lost bird" by the American Bird Conservancy, having not been spotted in the wild in nearly two decades, until ...

A rare bird with a stunning yellow crest has been photographed for the first time in the tropical mountains of the Democratic Republic of the Congo – almost two decades after its last confirmed ...