A kakapo is a species in the parrot family. It is the heaviest type of parrot in the world and the only one that cannot fly. The green feathers and rugged appearance are why the parrot is often ...

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 ...

Other small animals capable of loud noises are the flightless kakapo, whose mating calls can reach 130 decibels, and the male plainfin midshipman fish, which can attract females with an "audible ...

Watch the mating ritual of the critically-endangered kakapo play out in full. The kakapo (Strigops habroptilus), a critically-endangered New Zealand ground parrot creates an ultrasonic “booming” sound ...

8. They Make Some Unusual Noises Boom-chings aside, the kakapo squawks like a typical parrot, but it has a more varied vocabulary. Some of its other noises sound like a donkey's bray or a pig's ...

The kakapo is a parrot, but it doesn’t fly. It can live 100 years. Its sex life is best described as…involved. And there’s only 126 left in the wild.

The Kakapo Recovery team I’VE JOINED THE Kakapo Recovery Team on Codfish Island for the February 2013 breeding season. It is forecast to be a dud year as the rimu’s fruit crop is poor (kakapo eat a ...

The kakapo will be featured in the upcoming NATURE episode Animal Misfits premiering Wednesday, October 15th, 2014 at 8/7c on PBS. Check your local listings. References: ...

Rakiura the kakapo being held by vet nurse, Chelsea Dillon. Photo / Auckland Zoo A kakapo on the mend after a case of "crusty bum" will hopefully breed again to help boost the population of the ...

However, Rakiura will not be returning to Little Barrier Island. Instead she will be going to an island off Anchor Island (in Dusky Sound, southwest Fiordland).

His rediscovery of a lone Kakapo near Milford Sound in Fiordland (Southwestern most New Zealand) in the mid-1970s; and later on Stewart Island/Rakiura, would result in a hands-on, 24/7 monitoring ...