Takahē : "prehistoric-looking" birds released into wild in New Zealand - BBC Newsround
Takahē : "prehistoric-looking" birds released into wild in New Zealand - BBC Newsround
www.bbc.co.uk Takahē : "prehistoric-looking" birds released into wild in New Zealand
A "prehistoric-looking" bird that was thought to be extinct, has now been released into the wild in its native home of New Zealand.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/32975689
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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