How To Use Takahe In A Sentence
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The takahe (Porphyrio hochstetteri) is just one of New Zealand's spectacular endemic birds.
Biological diversity in New Zealand
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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
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Within an hour, the mountains, grasslands, kiwis, takahes, and other wonders I want so much to see were hundreds of miles behind us.
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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.
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It's a takahe, an extraordinary, huge flightless gallinule long believed to be extinct until rediscovered in a remote mountain range 50 years ago.
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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
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Glanced again in 1889, Alice thought for years she had seen a takahe.
Archive 2007-02-01
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It's a takahe, an extraordinary, huge flightless gallinule long believed to be extinct until rediscovered in a remote mountain range 50 years ago.
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Mitre 10 sponsors the department's takahe programme.
ScreenTalk
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Wouldn't it be great if kiwi, takahe and other native birds could one day be that abundant?
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Some birds compensate for a lack of structural modification to the intestinal tract by consuming large quantities of grass e.g., ducks, geese and the takahe.
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Key fauna protection programs run by the Department of Conservation in the area focus on species present on the predator-free islands, including tuatara, native frogs, kakapo (Strigops habroptilus CR), the endangered takahe (Porphyrio mantelli), and little spotted kiwi (Apteryx owenii VU).
Richmond temperate forests
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A takahe chick is recovering at Massey's wildlife ward after surgery to repair its eye.
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The takahe, once thought extinct, now has a population of 120 birds.
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Now the takahe was not rediscovered until the late 1940's.
Archive 2007-02-01
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The takahe is the largest living member of the rail family and was once thought to be extinct.
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A few mountain valleys in Fiordland harbor the total wild population (about 170 birds) of the rare and endangered takahe Notornis mantelli (E), a large flightless rail believed extinct until "rediscovered" in 1948.
Te Wahipounamu (South-West New Zealand World Heritage Area), New Zealand
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Deer compete with takahe for food (contributing to loss of condition and chick mortality) and damage their habitat.
Fiordland temperate forests
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Wouldn't it be great if kiwi, takahe and other native birds could one day be that abundant?
