article_snippet: A bird that was long thought to have gone extinct has been rediscovered in Burma after a team of scientists used a recording of the species' distinctive call to track A bird that was long thought to have gone extinct down.
article_snippet: The Jerdon's Babbler (chrysomma altirostre altirostre) - a small brown bird similar in size to a house sparrow - was last spotted in Myanmar in 1941 and was thought to have died out altogether.
article_snippet: But a team of scientists managed to uncover multiple birds nesting in a small area of grassland in Myanmar's central Bago region in May last year, according to a team of scientists report published in the latest edition of Birding Asia.
article_snippet: Re-discovered: The Jerdon's Babbler which was thought extinct for 73 years until scientists found evidence of it living in Burma .
article_snippet: Frank Rheindt, from the National University of Singapore, told AFP AFP was the first person to spot the bird during the survey, which was also carried out with members of the Wildlife Conservation Society and Myanmar's Nature and Wildlife Conservation Division. '
article_snippet: But researchers warned that the bird's survival is still far from guaranteed given pressure on Myanmar's few remaining grasslands. '
article_snippet: This discovery not only proves that the species still exists in Myanmar but that the habitat can still be found as well,' Colin Poole, director of Wildlife Conservation Society's regional hub in Singapore, said in a statement. '
article_snippet: Birds fly over the Moe Yun Gyi Wetlands in Bago Division, Myanmar, where Jerdon's Babbler was re-discovered 73 years after it was believed to be extinct .
article_snippet: Rheindt added that its plumage and song were significantly different to how its had been described by ornithologists in the early twentieth century - leading the team to suspect that it may differ from threatened populations found in Nepal, India and Pakistan.
article_snippet: Burma has more species of bird than any other country in mainland Southeast Asia, with ornithologists saying this number is could increase if more scientific research is conducted.
highlights_snippet: Was last spotted in Burma in 1941,and was thought to have died out .
  
highlights_snippet: Discovery proves bird and habitat both still exist in Myanmar .