The Takahe: Card

FRONT: The Takahe (image)

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The distinctive and colourful Takahe is the world’s largest surviving Rail and one of New Zealand’s most threatened birds, with only about 200 remaining in the wild and in special breeding programmes. The Takahe’s head is royal blue with a bright red frontal shield and bill. Its body feathers a kaleidoscopic whirl of blue, turquoise and green with contrasting under-tail tufts of white...