John C. Mittermeier
@johnmittermeier
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Director of The Search for Lost Birds @ABCbirds
Washington, DC
Joined August 2011
Woweeee! Pure excitement and relief best describes how Lily-Arison Rene de Roland, Loukman Kalavah and I felt after nine days of searching for the lost Dusky Tetraka in the mountains of Madagascar last month @ABCbirds @peregrinefund @rewild #searchforlostbirds
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RT @ABCbirds: “Lost birds” represent some of the biggest mysteries in bird conservation. Learning more about them is vital for science, but….
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Incredible. Makes you wonder how many other crazy rarities like this are out there that never get detected.
Bay Area birders are going bananas over what looks like a credible report of a Siberian Rubythroat (a Eurasian bird that apparently has never been seen in the contiguous US) captured on cameratrap in November but only posted on @inaturalist hours ago 🍿
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RT @peregrinefund: SPECIES REDISCOVERED! An expedition led by our Madagascar Program team rediscovered the dusky tetraka, a songbird that h….
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RT @rewild: #LostSpecies FOUND 🧵 songbird rediscovered in Madagascar after eluding scientists for 24 yrs. The Dusky Tetraka is one of the t….
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RT @Chilesummits: Such an incredible story of rediscovery! Congratulations to everyone on the team 👏.
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RT @CJWMcClure: FOUND: Mysterious songbird rediscovered in Madagascar after eluding scientists for 24 years! Great work by @peregrinefund,….
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RT @ABCbirds: One of the top 10 most wanted species by the Search for #LostBirds has been found! The Dusky Tetraka is still in Madagascar a….
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The Dusky Tetraka, a small olive-colored and yellow-throated bird that hops around on the ground and has eluded ornithologists for 24 years, was rediscovered by an expedition team searching the...
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RT @RareBirdAlertUK: Birders know the feeling when you a see 'dream' bird for the first time. So just imagine how this must have felt for t….
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Thank you @rich_! We are super excited about the news!!.
Just breaking my own Twitter embargo to congratulate @johnmittermeier and colleagues on refinding Otidiphaps insularis after 146 years, and also on outrunning pirates. We need to adjust the postgraduate research skills training accordingly :)
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RT @CornellBirds: On a small island off New Guinea, a camera trap has captured the first images *ever* taken of the Black-naped Pheasant-Pi….
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A September expedition to Papua New Guinea confirmed via video the existence of the black-naped pheasant pigeon, a critically endangered species that has not been reported for 140 years.
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RT @JasonJGregg: Pure joy! Me, checking and re-checking the camera-trap screen after realizing the Black-naped pheasant-pigeon still exists….
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RT @Jordan_Boersma: S/o to @JasonJGregg who led this expedition with me and to @johnmittermeier of @ABCbirds. We couldn't have found this….
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RT @BirdWatchDaily: John C. Mittermeier @johnmittermeier, director of the Lost Birds program at ABC and co-leader of the expedition, said:….
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RT @JasonJGregg: I am super excited to share the first video of the Black-naped pheasant-pigeon, a species from Papua New Guinea lost to sc….
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This is *incredible* news! A critically endangered top 10 #LostBird and species that has only been seen one other time since 1946. Congrats to @selvaorgco and their partners on the amazing work. #SantaMartaSabrewing #SearchforLostBirds.
Fantastic news! The #ColibríDeSantaMarta #SantaMartaSabrewing was 1 of the original 10 most wanted #lostbirds by the #SearchforLostBirds launched by @ABCbirds, @ReWild & @BirdLife_news. We're excited to learn more about this rediscovery!.
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RT @diegoCOLbirding: Santa Marta Sabrewing re-re-discovered!. @TheBirdersShow @audubonsociety @AudubonAmericas @ABCbirds @rewild @BirdsCol….
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RT @selvaorgco: ¡Extra, extra! Tras 13 años, ¡nos reencontramos con el enigmático, endémico y críticamente amenazado #ColibríDeSantaMarta #….
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