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Hello and welcome to the American Burning podcast from the American Burning Association.

I am Nate Swick.

The dusky, Tachra, is back. Or more strictly

speaking, it never left. Don't call it a comeback. It's been there for years. Tucked into a very

difficult to access corner of Madagascar looking far too much like a closely related species

for non-birders to recognize. I love a Lazarus species. I'm sure you do too, with the Desky Tetraka is a small

olive-colored, thrushy, warblered thing.

It eluded searchers for 24 years.

Well, sort of.

We'll on that in a bit.

But it was one of the top ten most wanted lost birds, according to a list produced by the American

Bird Conservancy Bird Life International in an organization called ReWild, but it is lost no longer.

The bird was found in a remote part of northwestern Madagascar at a place where in recent years,

both Madagascar Serpent Eagle and Red Owl were also discovered.

A team spent several months searching for it at a site that requires a 40-hour drive

and a half a day hike up steep mountains.

And while it is certainly impressive that these searchers found this bird after 24 years,

I think it is noteworthy to point out that no one had visited the site since 1999,

which, if you're doing the math, was the last time it was seen. I'm not trying to discount the

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