Kakapo

Highlights include an awesome avian image of Sy Montgomery, here on the left (along with Q&A on her new Kakapo Rescue book), and recommendations for books about nature and getting outside.

End-o'-the-Week Kid-Lit Roundup 2010

I sent him a copy ofLast Chance to See (it's non-fiction after all) and compared our love to the nearly extinct Kakapo but as soon as I mailed it I regretted not sending himTristram ShandyorGravity's Rainbowas a more apt means of torture.

Love, Story 2010

But they also encountered the Kakapo, an enormous flightless New Zealand parrot.

October 4th, 2009 time_shark 2009

There are only about 125 Kakapo left on Earth, and they all, apart from a few recent chicks, have names - that's how few of them there are.

October 4th, 2009 time_shark 2009

I like this one even better: Mission: Kakapo Copulation "one of the most memorable, or at very least humourous, displays at the Te Papa museum in Wellington, NZ."

Flightless Parrot Sex Fresca 2009

Apparently in order to bulk-process the poor-quality vegetation it eats, the Kakapo has evolved voluminous guts, and accordingly a larger overall body size.

Archive 2006-05-01 Darren Naish 2006

Saving the Kakapo: the conservation of the world's most peculiar parrot.

Rakiura Island temperate forests 2008

Sometimes called the Owl parrot, the Kakapo was first described by John Gray in 1845.

Archive 2006-05-01 Darren Naish 2006

Curiously enough, four of the programmes were rebroadcast the following year, though what happened to the Kakapo and the fruitbat tapes can only be guessed.

Don't Panic Gaiman, Neil 1993

Other noteworthy birds of New Zealand are the twelve kinds of cormorants, the wry-bill plover, the only bird in the world with its beak turned to one side, the practically flightless Kakapo, or ground parrot

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