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 ...

Illustration by TH Worthy and P. Scofield Of the 350 parrot species alive today, the heaviest is the kakapo, a flightless bird also native to New Zealand. But the extinct parrot, dubbed Heracles ...

A critically endangered New Zealand parrot is receiving much needed help. The flightless Kākāpō, though once widespread in ...

This kākāpō's name is Sirocco, and he is a good bird. Credit: Xinhua / Yang Liu via Getty Images "It’s a hiatus. It’s definitely not a lifetime ban," a Forest & Bird spokesperson Ellen ...

To put that number into perspective, there was once only about 50 kākāpō left – when the bird's population reached an all-time low in the 1990s. Kākāpō victorious: World's fattest parrot ...

And so we’ve been working really closely with Ngai Tahu on kakapo recovery, setting strategy, working side-by-side, really, on bringing this bird back from the brink of extinction. And ideally, Ngai ...

Why all this trouble for a bird? Having encountered a kakapo firsthand, I think I understand. During the release of a bird called Sirocco on CodfishIsland, located off the southern coast of New ...

Preserved droppings may help find new food sources and habitats for the kakapo (Strigops habroptilus), a critically endangered bird native to New Zealand. These large flightless parrots are like ...

The Kakapo is also flightless and nocturnal, adding to their unusual characteristics for a parrot. The male Ribbon-Tailed ...