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    • Courting pair of Takahē (Porphyrio hochstetter) on Kāpiti Island
    Rights: Geoff de Lisle Published 2 February 2019 Size: 98 KB Referencing Hub media

    The takahē is a flightless land bird endemic to Aotearoa New Zealand. This is Bargie (male bird on left) and Ihi, a courting pair photographed on Kāpiti Island in 2016.

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