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	Endangered New Zealand Birds - Takahe - Christchurch City Libraries
		The takahe has similar colouring to the pukeko, with purple-blue-green feathers and distinctive red legs and beak, but is a larger, flightless bird, weighing 3 kilograms and standing about 50 cm tall.
		One reason for the poor breeding record of the takahe is that many of the eggs laid are infertile, possibly the result of having a population which is too closely related.
		Attempts to increase the takahe population been made with the establishment of a captive breeding programme which takes takahe eggs, and hatches them, and then rears the young birds until they are able to survive in the wild.
	library.christchurch.org.nz /Kids/NZBirdsAnimals/Takahe (572 words)

	TerraNature \| New Zealand Ecology - Takahe
		Takahe are one of New Zealand's storm-blown land bird migrants from the Australian continent.
		Takahe are similar in appearance to the smaller pukeko (Porphyrio porphyrio), which is another native rail, but common worldwide.
		Another three takahe were found the same way, but this was all that was known about the bird in 1900 so it was assumed to be extinct.
	www.terranature.org /takahe.htm (930 words)

	more about the takahe
		Until the 1940’s, the takahe was thought to be extinct: none had been seen for 50 years.
		The takahe once lived throughout the North and South Islands but by the time of Maori settlement, it was already reduced in numbers and localised in distribution.
		The long-term goal of the Takahe Recovery Plan is to establish and maintain two viable populations of 100 pairs each- one maintained within its present and former range in Fiordland National Park, and a second comprising of takahe living on groups of islands and other mainland sites.
	www.mtbruce.org.nz /takahe_more.htm (1233 words)

	Saving the Takahe
		From 1948 deer were seen as a threat to the survival of takahe, so Dr Orbell and others hunted deer in the Murchison Mountains.
		The Department of Conservation continues to control the number of deer in the Murchison Mountains, which is good for the takahe and the environment.
		Takahe pull bits of the tussock grass out from the base of the plant.
	www.kcc.org.nz /birds/takahe/ohdeer.asp (654 words)

	AMNH - Expedition : Endangered
		The takahe is a member of the rail family.
		Takahes feed on fern roots and young shoots of native tussock grass -- a rather specialized diet.
		The deer eat the tussock grass, too, which is why the takahe has retreated to a small tract in the mountains.
	www.amnh.org /Exhibition/Expedition/Endangered/zealand/zealand.html (679 words)

	Tiritiri Matangi Island - Takahe
		Belonging to the same family as the successful Pukeko, the Takahe, sadly not so successful, was thought to be extinct until the rediscovery of c.
		In the wild, takahe live in high-altitude hidden valleys feeding on snow tussocks and on fern rhizomes.
		Takahe pairs call back and forth to each other in duet in a very deep resonant 'kloomph', whilst their normal contact call by day or night is a very loud, weka-like 'cooet'.
	www.tiritirimatangi.org.nz /Fauna/Takahe.htm (369 words)

	Skiing the Pacific Ring of Fire and Beyond: Mount Takahe
		Mount Takahe is one of the youngest volcanoes in the region, with much of its bulk constructed within the past 400,000 years, and there is evidence of subglacial eruptions around its base which occurred when the West Antarctic Ice Sheet was as much as 1000 ft (300 m) thicker.
		The takahe is a nearly-extinct flightless bird (Notornis mantelli) of New Zealand.
		Thus Mount Takahe is one of the few volcanoes in Marie Byrd Land which was not named for members of various US Antarctic expeditions in the mid-20th century (or their relatives), but instead after the humorous nickname of one of their LC-47 supply aircraft.
	www.skimountaineer.com /ROF/ROF.php?name=Takahe (251 words)

	TerraNature \| Takahe numbers grow
		The takahe census is carried out annually and covers a core part of the 50,000ha takahe Special Area within Fiordland National Park.
		The takahe's staple food, the tussock grasses, are still recovering from hard deer browsing over three decades ago.
		The North Island takahe Porphyrio hochstetteri is extinct.
	www.terranature.org /takaheCensus05.htm (529 words)

	Takahē - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Takahē or South Island Takahē, Porphyrio hochstetteri is a flightless bird endemic to New Zealand which belongs to the rail family.
		The Takahē can often be seen to pluck a snow grass grass stalk, taking it into one claw and eating only the soft lower parts which is a favorite food.
		In June 2006 a pair of Takahē were relocated to the Maungatautari Restoration Project.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Takahe (527 words)

	Abstracts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Volcanic deposits at Mt. Takahe were examined for evidence of recent activity which could correlate with the tephra layers in the ice core.
		Mt. Takahe is the favored source for the tephra because: (a) chemical analyses of samples from the volcano are distinctive, being peralkaline trachyte, and similar in composition to the analyzed tephra; (b) Mt. Takahe is a young volcano (
		A speculative eruptive history for Mt. Takahe is established by combining observations from Mt. Takahe and the Byrd ice core tephra.
	www.ccrc.sr.unh.edu /abstracts/Palais3.html (267 words)

	Mitre 10 Takahe Rescue - News - Mitre10.co.nz (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Takahe, one of New Zealand’s rarest native birds, has been carefully brought back from the brink of extinction by the efforts of DOC and many volunteers.
		Rediscovered in 1948, the Takahe still struggles to breed, so dedicated captive management programmes are vital to protect and nurture this endangered bird.
		We are proud to launch our Mitre 10 Takahe Rescue – a sponsorship partnership with DOC that was made possible by the New Zealand National Parks and Conversation Foundation.
	www.mitre10.co.nz /news/news/mitre_10_takahe_rescue.cfm (405 words)

	Takahe take-off!
		The takahe census is carried out annually and covers a core part of the 50,000 ha takahe Special Area within Fiordland National Park.
		Like many NZ unique bird species, being large, flightless and slow to reproduce, the takahe succumbed to the impacts of land clearance and the introduction of predators that came with human occupation.
		takahe census: teams go into the Murchison Mts in spring and spend around several weeks covering the country, finding birds, their nests and recording number and quality of eggs.
	www.biodiversity.govt.nz /news/media/current/04jul05.html (547 words)

	Takahe, Porphyrio mantelli (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The second specimen of the Takahe was caught, in 1851, by a Maori on Secretary Island, opposite Deas Cove in Thompson Sound.
		The third example was taken in December, 1879, north of the Mararoa River, three and a half miles east of its tributary the Whitestone, and nine miles south east of the south end of Lake Te Anau.
		On the evening of August 7th, 1898, Donald Ross was walking along the shore of the Middle Fiord, Lake Te Anau, when his dog suddenly darted into the bush and shortly after emerged with a bird in its mouth.
	www.nzbirds.com /birds/takahe.html (764 words)

	RedOrbit - Science - Takahe on the Move for a Better Breed; Guarding Good Genes the Aim (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		SIX takahe were transferred from the Burwood captive rearing centre near Te Anau and offshore islands to new locations last week as recovery efforts focus on reducing inbreeding in the endangered species.
		Two takahe, one each from Maud and Mana islands, would be the first of five breeding pairs to be introduced to Maungatautari to establish a new mainland breeding population, the first of its kind in the North Island, she said.
		There are an estimated 313 takahe left in the world.
	www.redorbit.com /news/science/553644/takahe_on_the_move_for_a_better_breed_guarding_good/?source=r_science (201 words)

	Takahe Fact Sheet
		The takahe is an 'old' New Zealander, descended from the Australian pukeko-like ancestor.
		Takahe also eat fern roots, but generally only in winter when the tussock is snowed in.
		Takahe chicks have fl fluffy down (baby feathers) and a fl beak – they get their red beak and beautiful green and blue feathers when they get bigger.
	www.kcc.org.nz /birds/takahe.asp (1259 words)

	Australia and New Zealand 2001 - Emmalee Tarry
		Takahe - Endemic Bird On The Brink of Extinction
		The Takahe is a large member of the family Rallidae closely related to the Purple Gallinule.
		On arrival at the lighthouse I found several pairs of Takahe browsing on the lawn around the picnic tables.
	www.neseabirds.com /Australia/ANZtiritirpage4.htm (894 words)

	Register of Historic Places
		The earliest known drawing of the Takahe by Collins dates from 1934 but it is unclear how much involvement he had prior to this date.
		The construction of the Takahe had started before plans were drawn for the building, though Collins’ influence on the final design of the building is marked.
		The Sign of the Takahe is open to the public as a restaurant and is a popular place for sightseers.
	www.historic.org.nz /Register/ListingDetail.asp?RID=275&sm= (581 words)

	The Port Hills - Parks & Waterways - Christchurch City Council
		Situated on Cracroft Reserve, the Sign of the Takahe is an historic building of national importance, planned by Harry (H.G.) Ell as the major building of a series of buildings.
		The buildings, envisaged as a series of staging points along an unbroken route to the Akaroa Summit, include the Victoria Park stone rotunda, the Sign of the Kiwi, the Sign of the Bellbird (1914) and the Sign of the Packhorse (1916), a stone hut lying on Crown land to the south of Mt. Bradley.
		The skyline of the Southern Alps is engraved on the rim of the table and along with bearing lines, enables the sightseer to identify named peaks from Mt Tapuaenuku 200 km to the north, to Aoraki (Mt. Cook) 230 km to the south west.
	www.ccc.govt.nz /parks/NaturalAreas/port_hills_recreation_signofthetakahe.asp (429 words)

	Unique New Zealand wildlife - Fiordland - Takahe Trapping (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		I was trapping rabbits there and caught two ferrets, so I think the end of the kakapo has already begun.' A few years after this in the nearby Hollyford Valley, the surveyor E. Wilmot noted that the kiwi, kakapo and weka had almost disappeared because of predation by mustelids.
		It is all rather ironic that the takahe, the bird that was to be the object of much of Henry's efforts and attentions throughout his time in Fiordland, remained hidden away just over the ridge pottering around among the tussock in a hidden valley.
		It was 50 or so years later, in 1948, that Dr G. Orbell, while on a hunting expedition, discovered a small number of takahe in a remote valley on the western shores of Lake Te Anau.
	homepages.ihug.co.nz /~janm/wildlife/fiordland/takahe.htm (537 words)

	cuisine.co.nz - restaurants - sign of the takahe (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Sign of the Takahe is surely a puzzle to those seeing it for the first time.
		Sign of the Takahe was intended to be a roadhouse, a place of rest and refreshment for travellers.
		The Sign of the Takahe’s wine list has a good selection of New Zealand wines, albeit expensive, although wine by the glass is limited to the Station Road label.
	www.cuisine.co.nz /index.cfm?pageID=35557&r=6 (418 words)

	LEARNZ Diary
		We were lucky it was calm on the lake because another trip for the takahe team, to collect eggs and chicks from the mountains, was postponed.
		We hoped all the nesting takahe were in lovely warm nests like Hebe's one we had seen yesterday.
		We were beginning to see why the takahe had survived on this peninsula of land for so long.
	www.learnz.co.nz /daily.asp (1704 words)

	World of Animals - The animal-lexicon over Takahe
		Since then, Takahes was regarded as extinct, until in the year 1948 a small population of few hundred (200-300) these birds in some outlying valleys of the Murchinson-Gebirges on the South-island was rediscovered.
		However, the carnivores and Nager dragged in by the Europeans mean at least one just as severe danger like direct adjustments of the human being since Takahes raise only nests of few eggs (1-2).
		Takahes almost look like big purple-chickens (type Porphyrio), with which together it from unites zoologist into a common type is put.
	www.world-of-animals.de /animal-lexicon/tierart_Takahe.html (302 words)

	Amazon.com: Takahe: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Takahe, The: Accounts of Field Investigations on Notornis by R. (ed.) Stidolph (Paperback - 1951)
		The large flightless New Zealand bird called the takahe had been presumed extinct for two hundred years before being...
		For over a century the takahe, a hulking 3 kg (61/2 lb) pedestrian bird with deep...
	www.amazon.com /s?ie=UTF8&keywords=Takahe&tag=httpexplaguid-20&index=books&link_code=qs&page=1 (590 words)

	Kakapo: News: Media Releases: Kakapo and Takahe on the Move (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Three takahe and one kakapo are flying by helicopter to Maud Island, in conjunction with local iwi, where they will be safe from rats, possums, stoats, ferrets and cats.
		The takahe swap was a way of mixing up the genetic stock of the birds on the islands, and would help prevent inbreeding, said takahe recovery group leader Dave Crouchley.
		There are about 200 adult takahe left in the world, with the majority found in Fiordland.
	www.kakaporecovery.org.nz /news/release_9905072.html (409 words)

	Global Volcanism Program \| Takahe \| Summary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Mount Takahe is an isolated shield volcano in eastern Marie Byrd Land with an 8-km-wide summit caldera.
		Two early Holocene phreatomagmatic tephra layers in the Antarctic ice core were attributed to Mount Takahe (Palais et al., 1988).
		The latest stage of activity at Mount Takahe constructed cinder cones on the upper southern flanks and tuff cones and cinder cones on the lower SW and NE flanks.
	www.volcano.si.edu /world/volcano.cfm?vnum=1900-027 (162 words)

	New Zealand's Flightless Takahe being Nurtured by Researchers
		In the mountains of Fiordland, the last natural population of takahe is being
		Takahe prefer grasslands and hold the same territory year to year, except in
		on the long-term survival of the takahe is unclear.
	forests.org /archive/spacific/rarebinz.htm (838 words)

	Takahe - Wikipedia
		Der Takahe (Porphyrio mantelli) ist eine fast ausgestorbene Vogelart aus Neuseeland, die zur Familie der Rallenvögel (Rallidae) gehört.
		Wie viele Vögel von Neuseeland ist auch der Takahe flugunfähig, was ihn zu einer leichten Beute für Raubtiere macht.
		Der Takahe war einst über ganz Neuseeland verbreitet.
	de.wikipedia.org /wiki/Takahe (309 words)

	TAKAHE - 1966 Encyclopaedia of New Zealand
		The place is now known as Takahe Valley, and the range of the South Island takahe has been found to extend over much of the Murchisons and part of the Kepler Mountains immediately to the south.
		As with the moas, takahe are primarily grazing animals, though young chicks feed mainly on insects.
		A bowl-like nest of snowgrass leaves is made on the ground beneath the shelter of tussocks or scrub, and the clutch of one or two eggs is incubated by both birds of a pair for about four weeks.
	www.teara.govt.nz /1966/T/Takahe/Takahe (538 words)

	TA News - 20th June 2006 - Big day for Tauroas, takahe
		LOVEBIRDS?: takahe Hauhunga and Matariki scoot for cover after being released into a protected enclosure at Maungatautari on Thursday afternoon.
		The Pukeatua farmers donated the three hectares to the Maungatautari Ecological Island Trust where a pair of takahe were released on Thursday afternoon.
		The 18-month-old takahe should thrive in the protected area on the mountain, along with other reintroduced species.
	www.teawamutu.co.nz /news/2006/06/20-takahe.shtml (459 words)

	Talève takahé - Porphyrio mantelli - Takahe
		La talève takahé est incapable de voler et possède des pattes très robustes.
		Les talèves takahé vivent en couple et, si elles supportent les voisins en dehors de la saison de reproduction, elles défendent vivement leur territoire pendant.
		Toute talève takahé étrangère est immédiatement prise en chasse, ailes levées, plumes du cou ébouriffées.
	www.oiseaux.net /oiseaux/gruiformes/taleve.takahe.html (1127 words)

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