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takahe

NOUN
  1. flightless New Zealand birds similar to gallinules

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  • The takahe (Porphyrio hochstetteri) is just one of New Zealand's spectacular endemic birds. Biological diversity in New Zealand
  • The park is also home to the world's only alpine parrot species, namely kea, as well as the endangered takahe. Te Wahipounamu (South-West New Zealand World Heritage Area), New Zealand
  • Within an hour, the mountains, grasslands, kiwis, takahes, and other wonders I want so much to see were hundreds of miles behind us.
  • Here we will see the Takahe, a large six pound Rail, the Saddleback, one of New Zealand's two remaining wattlebirds and the Stitchbird, a rare endemic honeyeater.
  • It's a takahe, an extraordinary, huge flightless gallinule long believed to be extinct until rediscovered in a remote mountain range 50 years ago.
  • The park is also home to the world's only alpine parrot species, namely kea, as well as the endangered takahe. Te Wahipounamu (South-West New Zealand World Heritage Area), New Zealand
  • Glanced again in 1889, Alice thought for years she had seen a takahe. Archive 2007-02-01
  • It's a takahe, an extraordinary, huge flightless gallinule long believed to be extinct until rediscovered in a remote mountain range 50 years ago.
  • Mitre 10 sponsors the department's takahe programme. ScreenTalk
  • Wouldn't it be great if kiwi, takahe and other native birds could one day be that abundant?
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