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Beauchamp, A. J.; Worthy, T. H. 1988. Forum on the decline and conservation of the Takahe. Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand 18: 103-118.
Bird, J.P., Martin, R., Akçakaya, H.R., Gilroy, J., Burfield, I.J., Garnett, S.G., Symes, A., Taylor, J., Şekercioğlu, Ç.H. and Butchart, S.H.M. 2020. Generation lengths of the world’s birds and their implications for extinction risk. Conservation Biology 34(5): 1252-1261. DOI: 10.1111/cobi.13486.
Hume, J. 2017. Extinct Birds. Bloomsbury Publishing.
IUCN. 2023. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2023-1. Available at: https://www.iucnredlist.org. (Accessed: 07 December 2023).
Mills, J. A.; Lavers, R. B.; Lee, W. G. 1984. The Takahe -- a relict of the Pleistocene grassland avifauna of New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Ecology 7: 57-70.
Phillipps, W. J. 1959. The last (?) occurrence of Notornis in the North Island. Notornis 8(4): 93-94.
Williams, G. R. 1960. The Takahe (Notornis mantelli Owen, 1848): a general survey. Transactions of the Royal Society of New Zealand 88: 235-258.
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Recommended citation
BirdLife International (2024) Species factsheet: North Island Takahe Porphyrio mantelli. Downloaded from
https://datazone.birdlife.org/species/factsheet/north-island-takahe-porphyrio-mantelli on 18/12/2024.
Recommended citation for factsheets for more than one species: BirdLife International (2024) IUCN Red List for birds. Downloaded from
https://datazone.birdlife.org/species/search on 18/12/2024.