31 May 2007. Takahe leave island for mountain homeland. Click for big version. Three takahe are today being taken from Tiritiri Matangi destined for the Murchison Mountains in Fiordland, in a move ...

Last week, 18 takahe were released in mountains in South Island to try to boost a small population in the wild. Due to predators, takahe were thought extinct at the end of the 19th Century but a ...

TRAP TIME: Conservation Department takahe ranger Martin Genet and Te Anau Mitre 10 manager Neil Hodges prepare to move stoat traps in the Murchison Mountains’ Snag Burn Valley.

Stoats have been blamed for a significant decline in takahe numbers in the Murchison Mountains. At a Southland Conservation Board meeting this week, a report tabled by DOC biodiversity officer ...

By RNZ The population of endangered flightless takahē has passed the 400 mark for the first time in at least a century. ... in Fiordland's Murchison Mountains.

Declared extinct in 1898, the South Island takahe, a vibrant blue-green bird, was rediscovered in New Zealand's Murchison Mountains decades later, thanks to intriguing footprints and calls.

Birds of a feather flock together. And so it proved at Orokonui Ecosanctuary yesterday, as two takahe waddled off into a brave new world. Resident takahe Quammen and his new female friend from ...

Last week, 18 takahe were released in mountains in South Island to try to boost a small population in the wild. Due to predators, takahe were thought extinct at the end of the 19th Century ...

Declared extinct in 1898, the South Island takahe, a vibrant blue-green bird, was rediscovered in New Zealand's Murchison Mountains decades later, thanks to intriguing footprints and calls. Dr.