The population of endangered flightless takahē has soared past the 400 mark for the first time in at least a century.
The Department of Conservation says a record breeding season, that produced 65 juvenile birds, has pushed their numbers up to 418.
And as Andrew Digby from DOC told our reporter Sarah Robson, that's pretty good going for a bird that was thought to be extinct until it was rediscovered in 1948.
