If you’ve never heard of the Siau scops-owl, there’s a good reason why — and it’s not because your knowledge of birds isn’t quite up to scratch. Nobody has seen the elusive owl since 1866, and it’s ...
A new species of owl has just been described from Príncipe Island, part of the Democratic Republic of São Tomé and Príncipe in Central Africa. Scientists were first able to confirm its presence in ...
Bárbara Freitas receives funding from FCT-Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia, Portugal. Forever Príncipe Conservation Alliance (from Africa’s Eden), National Geographic Society (Early career grant - ...
Bird alert: Scientists formally described a previously obscure species of owl this week. And, good news, it’s a flying meme-generator that sounds like a newborn puppy. Sadly, this special owl is ...
Belgian ornithologist Philippe Verbelen led an expedition in the forests of Príncipe in search of the undiscovered owl, which had long been rumored to exist. Two researchers, Martim Melo and Martin ...
Everyone knows the tiger, the panda, the blue whale, but what about the other five to thirty million species estimated to inhabit our Earth? Many of these marvelous, stunning, and rare species have ...
A new species of owl has just been described from Príncipe Island, Democratic Republic of São Tomé and Príncipe. Testimonies from local people suggesting its existence date back to 1928. A new species ...
Angelica Crottini, Researcher, Universidade do Porto, Bárbara Freitas, PhD student in Biology, Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales (MNCN-CSIC) y Martim Melo, Researcher in Evolutionary Biology, ...