Reuters - Fri Aug 12, 1:36 PM ET
Two white-winged guans rest on perches in their cage in a protected
area in northern Peru. A quarter of century ago, Perus white-winged
guan, a species native only to this Andean bird paradise, was
considered as dead as a dodo. Discovered in 1877 by a Polish
ornithologist, the birds were believed extinct for 100 years until
their rediscovery in 1977 by Gustavo del Solar, a
hunter-turned-conservationist who founded a special breeding
project to reintroduce it to the wild. (Mariana Bazo/Reuters)
