Takahē can lay up to three eggs, but usually rear just one chick.
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Photo: RNZ / Alison BallanceĪn innovative captive breeding programme for takahē began in the early 1980s, based at Burwood Bush near Te Anau. Organised hunting has seen red deer numbers in the Murchison Mountains brought down to an acceptable level, and today there is a network of hundreds of stoat traps across the 55,000 hectares of takahe habitat in the Murchison Mountains. Stoat predation can be particularly dangerous: in 2007, 40 percent of all wild takahē were killed by stoats, during a stoat plague that followed a southern beech mass seeding event in Fiordland. Glen says there was a lot of research over that time to try and work out why takahē numbers were declining, and it was believed to be a combination of predation by stoats and competition for food from red deer, not helped by cold winters with heavy snow falls. Photo: SUPPLIEDĭOC takahē ranger Glen Greaves estimates there were between 200-400 takahē alive in the Murchison Mountains at the time of their rediscovery, but by the early 1980s their numbers had dropped to between 90-100 birds. Geoffrey Orbell and Neil McCrostie in Takahe Valley in 1948. I love that.”ĭr Orbell knew that the rediscovery of this ‘extinct’ bird was world news, and after taking photos and some film of the birds the team returned to Te Anau and then to Invercargill to tell the local newspaper of their find. Time magazine said that we returned in ornithological ecstasy. “He gave us orders – quietly – to put the netting in a semi-circle … and we slowly drove them into the net.” So we were all crouching and peering, and through the snow grass I caught a glimpse of the bright red beak. “Doc said ‘follow me and don’t talk, only hand movements.’ So we walked only a very short distance through the snow grass, and Doc crouched and put his finger up to say he could see one bird. “We tied the boat at the entrance to the glow worm caves, and then climbed up and up through rock, windfalls, beautiful beech forest. “We left at 3.30 in the morning,” says Joan. Time magazine wrote that we returned in ornithological ecstasy.