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Takahe /Porphyrio hochstetteri Facts

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The flightless Takahe (Porphyrio hochstetteri) is the largest living member of the Rallidae  family. Its average weight is about 2.75 kg (6 lbs) Haggis' is a people-friendly female Takahe at Maud Island, a restricted-entry DoC island in Pelorus Sound. It is a stocky bird, with reduced wings, strong legs and a massive bill.   The Takahe could be a rare flightless bird found solely in New Zealand. it had been thought to be extinct within the 1800’s however was rediscovered 1948 in many remote valleys on South Island. It's a plumage of sensible blue and copper-green with giant red bill and a red frontal defend that protrudes out from its head. It feeds by stripping seeds from grasses. It nests on the bottom and lays 2 cream colored eggs with black blotches. The young are black in color with downy feathers.  Takahes are endangered because ,their habitat has been destroyed for agriculture and construction of buildings, roads, and dams. When New Zealand was 1...

Ibex Facts

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Ibexes are wild goats found on high mountain meadows, slopes and rocks of Europe, northeastern Africa and Asia.Their forelegs are slighter shorter than hind legs with a height of three feet at the shoulder. each sexes have horns that curve backwards from the forehead. throughout the winter, their fur is yellowish brown whereas within the summer their fur turns to ashy gray.  Ibexes live apart in little flocks most of the time however throughout mating season they'll combine off. they're extraordinarily agile, ready to survive in cliffs and crags. they're known to leap up to lengths as so much as forty feet. they're herbivores and eat no matter inexperienced vegetation is found in their sparse landscape. Ibexes became endangered thanks to the excessive looking by man for game and sport. Hunters contemplate it a feat to be ready to reach the inaccessible habitat within which they live in and kill the Ibexes as 'souvenirs'.    The Alpine Ibex has become...

The Bird of Paradise Facts

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The birds-of-paradise are members of the family Paradisaeidae of the order Passeriformes.For reasons of camouflage plumage of the females typically blends well with their habitat, unlike the bright attractive colors found on the males. The diet of the birds-of-paradise is dominated by fruit and arthropods. The centre of bird-of-paradise diversity is the large island of New Guinea; all but two genera are found in New Guinea.  The males' vibrant plumage is utilized to attract females throughout their breeding season. The females are uninteresting brown with scattered brown specks. Courting males will strut around on a specific perch or a cleared spacing on the forest floor for hours, showing off their magnificent feathers of assorted shapes and sizes. once mating, the females will explode and make a nest on their own, taking care of the young unaided. Some birds of paradise have any long tail and flank feathers trailing behind as they fly whereas some are adorned with vib...