Takahē : "prehistoric-looking" birds released into wild in New Zealand - BBC Newsround (www.bbc.co.uk)

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Older article (2023), but sharing for those unawares.

The birds - which have been around since the prehistoric Pleistocene era - were officially declared extinct in 1898.

After their rediscovery in 1948, conservationists began collecting and incubating eggs from wild takahē, to prevent them from being eaten by predators

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[-] TheOakTree@lemm.ee 1 points 2 hours ago

Their beaks remind me of oropendola

this post was submitted on 14 Nov 2024

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