Additionally, every living kakapo is named and monitored, so researchers always know each bird’s location. The bottom line is that kakapos are adorable and they’re a lot of fun to watch, but ...

The critically endangered kakapo gives some clues to what the giant parrot may have eaten and how it may have moved. Only 189 kakapo live in the wild today, up from a low of 51 birds in 1995.

Observations on the olfactory ability of the Kakapo Strigops habroptilus, the critically endangered parrot of New Zealand. Ibis 146(1): 161–164. doi: 10.1111/j.1474-919X.2004.00212.x . The ...

Vets in New Zealand have performed life-saving brain surgery on a critically endangered kakapo parrot in a world-first procedure amid efforts to save the species. Surgeons adapted techniques used ...

The kakapo parrot (Strigops habroptilus), recognized by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) as a critically-endangered species on the | Plants And Animals ...

Public votes for the kakapo, the critically endangered flightless parrot, as one of the top five ugliest animals in the world.

Good news for all those animal lovers out there: the New Zealand Department of Conservation claims that the kakapo parrot (also widely renowned as the world’s ‘fattest’ parrot species) has just ...

Almost three decades later, the kakapo—once thought extinct—is one of the most thoroughly studied animals on the planet. Every single one of the last 153 kakapos on the planet is known to ...

The world’s plumpest parrots are dying. New Zealand’s kakapo parrots, an endangered bird that can grow to nearly five pounds, are being killed off by a fungal infection. Seven of the ch… ...

It’s not entirely the kakapo’s fault that its entire species consists of one hundred and twenty-seven animals. The eight-pound parrot had evolved in ancient New Zealand, where it kept to ...

The kakapo is a species of bird which lives on small islands off the coast of New Zealand. Coming in at about 24 inches tall and weighing between 4 and 9 lbs it is the world's heaviest parrot ...

Kakapos - the world's fattest species of parrot - are flightless and nocturnal Vets in New Zealand have performed life-saving brain surgery on a critically endangered kakapo parrot in a world ...