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Scientists excited by sighting of 1st black great tit in Japan
From http://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/AJ201711200001.html
This black great tit, seen here in February in Tsukuba, Ibaraki Prefecture, was found on the grounds of the National Museum of Nature and Science’s Tsukuba Botanical Garden. (Provided by the National Museum of Nature and Science)
Scientists excited by sighting of 1st black great tit in Japan
By SHINICHI MISHIMA/ Staff Writer
November 20, 2017 at 07:00 JST
An ultra-rare all black great tit bird has been found for the first time in Japan, the National Museum of Nature and Science reported.
The bird was spotted by a visitor on the grounds of the NMNS Tsukuba Botanical Garden in Tsukuba, Ibaraki Prefecture. Genetic tests by the museum’s scientists identified its species.
Great tits that are black all over are so rare across the world that only one other case has been reported in the Netherlands, museum officials said.
Shoji Hamao, head of the Division of Vertebrates under the NMNS Department of Zoology, said a visitor photographed the bird in a thicket on the grounds of the botanical garden in February last year. It disappeared during the breeding season that began in spring, but turned up again in February this year.
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By SHINICHI MISHIMA/ Staff Writer
November 20, 2017 at 07:00 JST
An ultra-rare all black great tit bird has been found for the first time in Japan, the National Museum of Nature and Science reported.
The bird was spotted by a visitor on the grounds of the NMNS Tsukuba Botanical Garden in Tsukuba, Ibaraki Prefecture. Genetic tests by the museum’s scientists identified its species.
Great tits that are black all over are so rare across the world that only one other case has been reported in the Netherlands, museum officials said.
Shoji Hamao, head of the Division of Vertebrates under the NMNS Department of Zoology, said a visitor photographed the bird in a thicket on the grounds of the botanical garden in February last year. It disappeared during the breeding season that began in spring, but turned up again in February this year.
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More at link.
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