Takahē : "prehistoric-looking" birds released into wild in New Zealand - BBC Newsround
Takahē : "prehistoric-looking" birds released into wild in New Zealand - BBC Newsround

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Takahē : "prehistoric-looking" birds released into wild in New Zealand

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