Story: European discovery of plants and animals
This male and female takahē were photographed by Geoffrey Orbell, an Invercargill doctor, in 1948. The species had been thought extinct until he rediscovered a population living in the Murchison Mountains, on the western shores of Lake Te Anau. He tethered this pair to sticks so that they could not escape.
About this item
Alexander Turnbull Library, Dominion Post Collection (PAColl-7327)
Reference: EP-Zoology-Birds, Takahe-01
Photograph by Geoffrey Buckland Orbell
Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Matauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any re-use of this image.