‘It’s a real New Zealand duty to save these birds’: Berry harvest brings hope for beloved kakapo

We don’t have the Eiffel Tower or the pyramids, but we do have kakapo," says New Zealand Department of Conservation’s Deidre ...
AOL

Meet the Kakapo, the World’s Only Flightless Parrot

If we told you there was a species of parrot in the world that can’t fly, would you believe us? We couldn’t believe it ourselves until we saw this wild YouTube video. Those cute little creatures are ...
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Meet Kakapo: The Flightless Parrot With a Heartbreaking Backstory

Meet the kakapo—a chunky, moss-green parrot that looks like it waddled out of a fantasy novel and forgot how to fly. This New Zealand native carries one of the bird world's most tragic and oddly ...
Taipei Times

Bumper berry harvest reviving NZ kakapo’s population

However, the nocturnal and reclusive New Zealand native bird’s fate is teetering toward survival after an unlikely conservation effort that has coaxed the population from 50 to more than 200 over ...
The New York Times

The Parrot, Its Parasites and a Shared Struggle to Escape Extinction

The endangered kakapo is a flightless bird native to New Zealand. Its population is growing, but its parasites have dwindled. Could that spell trouble? By Jacey Fortin For decades, the kakapo has been ...