New data from New Zealand’s conservation authorities show one of the world’s rarest parrots, Kakapo, has produced a record number of chicks in 2025-26 – its best season since 1977 and a major ...

One of the strangest and most endangered birds in the world, the kakapo, is being brought back from the brink of extinction. The largest of all parrot species, flightless, nocturnal and plant-eating, ...

The kakapo parrot (Strigops habroptilus), recognized by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) as a critically-endangered species on the organization’s Red List of Threatened ...

Before humans arrived in New Zealand, parrots called kākāpō freely roamed across the islands. They are the world’s only living flightless parrots, and they’re a bit smaller than the average chicken.

Department of Conservation staff will transfer 17 kakapo, among the most threatened bird species in the world, between two remote islands tomorrow (NOTE: Saturday July 3) to improve their breeding ...

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 ...

New data from New Zealand’s conservation authorities show one of the world’s rarest parrots, Kakapo, has produced a record ...