Highly endangered flightless takahe feeding Tiritiri Matangi island near Auckland New Zealand

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Highly endangered flightless takahe feeding Tiritiri Matangi island near Auckland New Zealand Thought to be extinct it was rediscovered in 1948 near Lake Te Anau in South Island After captive breeding tt has since been reintroduced to predator free islands including Tiritiri and Kapiti

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Location: Tiritiri Matangi island near Auckland New Zealand
Photo credit: © Mark Boulton / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

Keywords: bird, endangered, endemic, flightless, hochstetteri, indigenous, island, matangi, north, porphyrio, rail, rallidae, rare, rediscovered, reintorductions, species, takahe, threatened, tiritiri, zealand