Biologists have described a new species of seabird, Bryan’s shearwater (Puffinus bryani), based on a specimen collected in 1963 on Midway Atoll in the northwestern Hawaiian Islands:
http://smithsonianscience.org/2011/08/b ... iscovered/
New shearwater species identified, Midway Atoll
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Re: New shearwater species identified, Midway Atoll
And the rest of the story is that it may already be extinct.