‘Nature’s Resilience’: Missing for Over Half a Century, Rare Bird Finally Captured on Camera

The first-ever documented photograph of New Britain goshawk. © WWF-Pacific / Tom Vierus

In a twist of fate, a rare bird species thought to have been lost for decades has been photographed for the first time in 55 years in Papua New Guinea.

The photograph of the New Britain goshawk (Accipiter princeps), captured by conservation photographer and filmmaker Tom Vierus, is the first known image of this elusive species.