NZ Wildlife
Takahē
Takahē
New Zealand bird calls

Takahē

Porphyrio hochstetteri

Declared extinct, then rediscovered in 1948 in the Murchison Mountains. Still only ~500 alive.

Listen — Takahē
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Photo: Pseudopanax at English Wikipedia, “Male takahe walking on grass” · Public domain · source. Resized for this site.

Audio: © Crown Copyright / Department of Conservation (NZ), “Takahe song 10” · CC BY 4.0 · source. Re-encoded to AAC.

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