The kakapo is native to New Zealand. Since their numbers are dwindling, they technically only live on three islands off New Zealand’s coast: Codfish Island (Whenua Hou), Anchor Island, and ...

New Zealand's Bird of the Year competition has excluded fat parrot kākāpō from from this year's ballot due to the two-time winner's popularity.

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 ...

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 artificial insemination ...

Four birds were brought back to the mainland, a place they haven’t lived since the 1980s. My next guest has dedicated her career to saving New Zealand’s birds– Deidre Vercoe, operations manager for ...

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 inexpectatus, crushes the kakapo’s record ...

A kākā bird at Te Anau Bird Sanctuary has gone global after it managed to turn on a tap with its beak to have a drink of water. Video / Matt Martel One of New Zealand’s endangered native birds ...

How New Zealand saved a flightless parrot from extinction. Native Maori took a leading role in efforts to revive the iconic kakapo. “People came together because they knew the bird was bigger ...

The puteketeke, a bird that pukes, grunts, growls and has bizarre mating rituals, won New Zealand’s bird of the century title in a competition where American-British comedian John Oliver's ...

Those cute little creatures are called kakapos, or moss chickens, and they’re native to New Zealand. But why can’t they fly, and why Meet the Kakapo, the World’s Only Flightless Parrot ...

By Lucy Craymer 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 ...