[valiant-comma]

I’ll be honest, a picture of the bird being held by a scientist was not what I expected to see.

[goodcanadian]

They don't mention it in the article, but the birds were likely captured using mist nets (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mist_net). It is a standard technique:

In total, about 18 birds were found at three sites during the expedition.

[is_true]

I know nets are cheap, but, why don't use cameras instead?

[da39a3ee]

Ornithologists always use mist nets to survey birds. They are very widely used and rarely harm the birds when used by people who've learned how to use them. Their possession is controlled in the sorts of countries with legal systems that specify first world stuff like that.

[badgersnake]

That’s what I’d expect to see if they’d just used an AI to generate the photo though.

[pvaldes]

I had the same impression. Some of the crest points of this bird seem to mutate into background leaves in a part of the photo. The eye lies in a strange place also. That photo is strange.

... But I can be wrong and is really easy to prove it.

If they really have captured the bird, they should have taken some genetic material in the process. Entangled birds lose feathers all the time.

[HarHarVeryFunny]

At least it wasn't Darwin eating some species he just discovered

[HarHarVeryFunny]

Not sure why this got down voted. Maybe slightly off-topic (but still this is a rather invasive method of study), but it is true.

https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2015/08/12/430075644/di...

[dhosek]

Usually links to phys.org on this site are to physics articles so I expected the bird to be metaphorical, not literal.