For more than 300 years, the Bermuda petrel was believed extinct. A remarkable discovery in 1951 gave the ‘lost bird’ a second chance | World News
For centuries, the Bermuda petrel survived only as a memory. Sailors and islanders knew the bird had once filled the skies around Bermuda, but by the modern era it was considered gone forever. Then, in the middle of the 20th century, a handful of unexpected discoveries changed its story. A small colony was found hiding…