Not so cold duck? Man keeps looking for bird thought extinct
WASHINGTON (AP) " Hope is the thing with feathers, poet Emily Dickinson wrote. For Richard Thorns, the feathers are pink.Thorns' hope? To prove that a colorful duck is not extinct. This week, he launches a seventh expedition into the inaccessible wilds of Myanmar to search for the pink-headed duck that hasn't been seen alive since 1949, and that was in India. No one has seen the bird alive in Myanmar in more than a century.Thorns, a British writer who quit his shop clerk job 20 [...]
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