Friday, July 30, 2010

Assignment #1 ~ Takahe

Takahe
Takahe are endangered New Zealand birds.
There are only about 230 left!
Find some more facts about this unusual bird and post it in a reply. Make sure you read other people's replies so that you aren't repeating information.
Be sure to spell check your replies to make sure everyone can read them accurately and add your name so we know who has added to our knowledge bank.
You might find some information at the Kiwi Conservation Club Site.

43 comments:

  1. Takahe were discovered in 1948 by Dr. George Orbell.

    Ms. McLellan

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  3. The takahe looks like a pukeko.





    by yellow

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  4. takahe can live up to 20 yers orange

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  5. It first flew to nz from austrila millons of
    years ago. pink

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  6. Takahe is a bird.

    by yellow.

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  7. Check your criteria please! Check your spelling before you post your information.

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  8. takahe can live up 20 yres.






    by orange

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  9. They were the ancestors of our pukeko. pink

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  10. The Takahē or South Island Takahē, Porphyrio hochstetteri is a flightless bird indigenous to New Zealand and belonging to the rail family. It was thought to be extinct after the last four known specimens were taken in 1898

    by green

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  12. Takahe is dieing because the hunter is shooting them.

    yellow.

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  13. Takahe once lived throughout NZ. pink

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  15. Takahe can live up to twenty years,
    blue and red

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  16. The takahe looks like a big, fat pukeko – and that is roughly what it is! The takahe’s ancestors were birds like pukeko who flew to New Zealand from Australia millions of years ago. They came to a land where the forest was dense and they had few enemies so they didn’t need to fly. Over many generations their wings became smaller and their bodies became larger until they were the big, flightless takahe we know today. thomas

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  17. Meanwhile birds very like those takahe ancestors arrived in New Zealand again, a few thousand years ago. They were the ancestors of our pukeko
    thomas

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  18. A takahe is a wild bird.

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  19. Takahe can live up to twenty years, which is a long time for a bird because they can live solong they don't need to have many chicks to replace themselves.

    by; angel

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  20. Takhe can live for along time untill they die.


    From Amy.

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  21. takahe are dieing because are hunter are shooting them.

    chris

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  22. Tahahe can live up to twenty years, which is a long time for a bird because they can live so long they need to have many chicks to replace themselves.

    by;angel

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  23. Takhe can live for along time untill they die.



    From Amy.

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  24. there not mush takhe left they look like a pukeo and eat worms and grass takhe are going indangerd they have a red beak and feet 2 of the takhe get they get ther fet stuk in stuf lik mouse traps so they could lose a leg they might die from poson or enames like dos and cats they can nest in padokes when a famer mos a podek they could die thes danielle

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  25. There where 250 takahe liveing



    ashleigh

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  26. This unique bird, the largest living member of the rail family, was once thought to be extinct. There were only four recorded sightings of takahē last century and then none were seen until 1948. In that year a few pairs were rediscovered in the alpine tussock grasslands of the Murchison Mountains, Fiordland.

    Quentin

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  27. The takahe looks like a big beautiful overweight pukeko.
    By Hayley

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  28. This unique bird, the largest living member of the rail family, was once thought to be extinct. There were only four recorded sightings of takahē last century and then none were seen until 1948. In that year a few pairs were rediscovered in the alpine tussock grasslands of the Murchison Mountains, Fiordland.

    Quentin

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  29. Takahe eat and eat and eat all day long.

    Sam

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  30. 2 takahe, both males were released on Tiri in 1991, followed by 1 female in 1992. Further releases have occurred since then and many birds have been born on Tiri. The total population on Tiri is now 10 birds. by Jack

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  31. Takahe can not fly

    Sam

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  32. Takahe can't fly.

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  33. The takahe looks like a big beautiful overweighted pukeko
    By Hayley

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  34. Breeding begins when the birds are three years old.


    Sam

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  35. This colourful bird has turquoise, purple, brown-green and navy plumage, with a white undertail and bright orange-red bill and legs. Today South Island takahē remain in the Fiordland mountains, and have been introduced to several island sanctuaries.

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  36. Like the moa, their numbers shrank in the face of maori hunting, but unlike the moa, the takahe did not become extinct.

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  37. In 1949 an 80-year-old man who had eaten a takahÄ“ remarked that it was good eating but ‘all drumstick’. 1 Each leg and thigh of a takahÄ“ contains five times more meat

    quentin

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  38. Takahe chicks have black fluffy down (baby feathers) and a black beak – they get their red beak and beautiful green and blue feathers when they are older. Their parents feed them for about three months, then they have to find their own food. The chicks learn how to feed themselves by following and copying their parents.

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  39. Takahe chicks have black fluffy down (baby feathers) and a black beak – they get their red beak and beautiful green and blue feathers when they are older. Their parents feed them for about three months, then they have to find their own food. The chicks learn how to feed themselves by following and copying their parents. by james

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  40. takahe’s ancestors were birds like pukeko who flew to New Zealand from Australia millions of years ago. james

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  41. Takahe habitats are in boshes

    By James

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  42. there habitat is in the murchinson mountians

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  43. Did yuo now takate is biger then chicken. :P

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