Grazing Takahe: Card

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The colourful and sturdy Takahe was thought to be extinct until 1948 when a small colony was found in a remote valley in Fiordland, their discovery becoming a world-wide orthinological sensation. They spend up to 19 hours per day constantly eating in order to provide their large bodies with sufficient nourishment, their usual diet being the soft, juicy part at the base of grass stalks, seeds, fern roots and insects...