Vanishing bird: the mystery of the 'near-mythical' Australian painted-snipe

Sightings are so rare that no one has recorded the call of these elusive waders, but a mission has begun to finally learn where they go when they disappear"Near-mythical" is how the ecologist Matthew Herring describes the Australian painted-snipe - one of this continent's rarest birds."Some of these terms get thrown around," Herring says, "but they really are." Continue reading...