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Scientists Realized a Species of Bird Is Really Thirteen Different Species
Scientists Realized a Species of Bird Is Really Thirteen Different Species
This is the red-bellied pitta, a small, insect-eating bird that lives in the Philippines: Image: WikiMedia Commons But for a long time, scientists believed this other bird, found on Indonesia's Banggai and Sula Islands, was also the red-bellied pitta: Image: WikiMedia Commons And this little guy, found on a small island off the coast of Papua New Guinea: Image: Forktail But it turns out the birds that were once believed to all belong to the same species-the red-bellied pitta-are actually 13 distinct species, found around Southeast Asia.
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