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 ...
The population of New Zealand's treasured kākāpō has now reached 252, the highest number of the endangered birds seen in almost 50 years, the country's Department of Conservation announced Tuesday.
What it eats: Kākāpō are vegetarians. Their diet varies with the seasons and includes tubers, fruits, seeds, leaf buds, young plant shoots, fungi and moss. The first thing that you'll notice about ...
The nocturnal, flightless parrots reproduce in tune with rimu - which have a mast season of extra growth every three or four years. The Department of Conservation says there are 83 breeding-aged ...
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Bird thought extinct returns after nearly 200 years
The discovery was made on Floreana, one of the inhabited islands in the Galapagos archipelago, after invasive predators were ...
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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Elusive, critically endangered bird—and one of the closest living relatives of dodos—was spotted for the first time in five years
Conservationists are feeling cautiously optimistic after spotting a critically endangered bird in the wild in Samoa. During a ...
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