New Zealand South Island takahe (Porphyrio hochstetteri) - an endangered flightless rail

• Contributor: Andrew Digby / Alamy Stock Photo
• Image ID: B8M00Y
• File size: 48.3 MB (2 MB Compressed download)
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• Dimensions: 4966 x 3401 px | 42 x 28.8 cm | 16.6 x 11.3 inches | 300dpi
• Date taken: 19 February 2009
• Location: Maud Island, New Zealand

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The takahe is a large, flightless rail, endemic to New Zealand. Thought extinct in 1898, it was rediscovered in 1948. Some 200 individuals now survive, on offshore islands and in their original habitat in Fiordland.

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