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The Takahe was thought extinct until Dr. Geoffrey Orbell discovered two on the shores of Lake Orbell in 1948. Later that year over 400 were found in the grassland of the Murchison Mountains. They are found in New Zealand and are considered the world's largest living members of the Rallidae family.

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