Klub tak bisa terbang (Flightless Club)
Takahē
Porphyrio hochstetteri
- legendaris
- 10 km/h
- Terancam punah
Declared extinct in 1898, rediscovered in 1948 in a remote New Zealand valley. Comeback in flightless blue.
- Populasi
- ~500 individuals (October 2023), growing roughly 8%/year
- Habitat
- Alpine tussock grasslands and subalpine scrub/red-tussock river flats in Fiordland; descends into beech forest or scrub to eat fern rhizomes when heavy snow covers the grasslands.
- Fakta menarik
- Believed extinct for ~50 years after 1898, the takahē was dramatically rediscovered in November 1948 by Dr. Geoffrey Orbell in the Murchison Mountains, Fiordland, after a deliberate search prompted by unexplained footprints near Lake Te Anau.
- Sebaran
- Endemic to New Zealand's South Island; wild population confined to the Murchison Mountains (Fiordland), with additional released/reintroduced birds at sites like Gouland Downs (Kahurangi NP) and Greenstone Valley, plus several predator-free offshore islands (Tiritiri Matangi, Kapiti, Mana, Maud, Motutapu) and mainland sanctuaries.
- Makanan
- Primarily starchy leaf bases and seeds of tussock grasses (Chionochloa) and sedges/snow grass; opportunistically large insects (moths, beetles, weta) and, when snow covers grasslands, underground fern rhizomes in forest/scrub.
- Ukuran
- 0,63 m
- Masa hidup
- 12 tahun
