Takahe are endangered New Zealand birds.
There are only about 230 left!
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Takahe were discovered in 1948 by Dr. George Orbell.
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ReplyDeleteThe takahe looks like a pukeko.
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takahe can live up to 20 yers orange
ReplyDeleteIt first flew to nz from austrila millons of
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Takahe is a bird.
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ReplyDeletetakahe can live up 20 yres.
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They were the ancestors of our pukeko. pink
ReplyDeleteThe 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
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ReplyDeleteTakahe is dieing because the hunter is shooting them.
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Takahe once lived throughout NZ. pink
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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
ReplyDeleteMeanwhile birds very like those takahe ancestors arrived in New Zealand again, a few thousand years ago. They were the ancestors of our pukeko
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A takahe is a wild bird.
ReplyDeleteTakahe 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.
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Takhe can live for along time untill they die.
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takahe are dieing because are hunter are shooting them.
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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.
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Takhe can live for along time untill they die.
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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
ReplyDeleteThere where 250 takahe liveing
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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.
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The takahe looks like a big beautiful overweight pukeko.
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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.
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Takahe eat and eat and eat all day long.
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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
ReplyDeleteTakahe can not fly
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Takahe can't fly.
ReplyDeleteThe takahe looks like a big beautiful overweighted pukeko
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Breeding begins when the birds are three years old.
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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.
ReplyDeleteLike the moa, their numbers shrank in the face of maori hunting, but unlike the moa, the takahe did not become extinct.
ReplyDeleteIn 1949 an 80-year-old man who had eaten a takahē remarked that it was good eating but ‘all drumstick’. 1 Each leg and thigh of a takahē contains five times more meat
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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.
ReplyDeleteTakahe 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
ReplyDeletetakahe’s ancestors were birds like pukeko who flew to New Zealand from Australia millions of years ago. james
ReplyDeleteTakahe habitats are in boshes
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there habitat is in the murchinson mountians
ReplyDeleteDid yuo now takate is biger then chicken. :P
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