New Zealand's critically endangered flightless parrot, the kakapo, started breeding last week for the first time in four ...

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 ...

Conservationists are expecting a lot of breeding action from threatened kakapo over the next month. The nocturnal, flightless ...

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 ...

WELLINGTON, Jan. 6 (Xinhua) -- New Zealand's critically endangered kakapo is entering its first breeding season in four years, raising hopes for what could be the largest hatching on record.

WELLINGTON (Reuters) - The population of New Zealand's kakapo, an endangered flightless parrot, has increased 25% in the last year to 252 birds following a good breeding season and success with ...

Of the more than 200 hundred eggs laid by the kakapo females, 75 of them are predicted to live, Andrew Digby, who serves as a science advisor to New Zealand's kakapo recovery operation, told AFP on ...

Critically endangered native bird and world's fattest parrot Kakapo has won New Zealand Bird of the Year 2020 for the second time. The flightless bird has stunned pundits with her second victory which ...

When humans first settled in New Zealand in the 13th century, they found a wonderland of strange creatures—including a green, bumbling parrot with the face of an owl and the mien of an old gentleman.