The kākāpō (Māori: [kaːkaːpɔː]; pl.: kākāpō; Strigops habroptila), sometimes known as the owl parrot or owl-faced parrot, is a species of large, nocturnal...

Sirocco (hatched 23 March 1997) is a kākāpō, a large, flightless, nocturnal parrot, and one of the remaining living individuals numbering only 246 (as...

The Kākāpō River is a river of New Zealand. It is located in the West Coast Region of the South Island. The river flows northwest from its source three...

the south coast. The island is home to Sirocco, an internationally famous kākāpō, a rare species of parrot. The island is one of many geographic features...

predators, hence parrots evolved to fill habitats from the ground dwelling kākāpō to the alpine dwelling kea as well as a variety of forest species. The arrival...

giant wētā. Kākāpō (night parrots), also critically endangered, were first translocated to Little Barrier Island/Hauturu in 1982. Kākāpō successfully...

Norfolk kākā and Chatham kākā, while the genus Strigops contains the iconic kākāpō. All extant species are endemic to New Zealand. The species of the genus...

northwest Ross Island. It rises to about 1,100 metres (3,600 ft) high and, like Kakapo Nunatak is one of several features near Mount Bird assigned the native name...

see how they're getting on almost 20 years later. In one episode, a male kākāpō, called Sirocco, mounts and attempts to mate with Carwardine's head. Sirocco...

by birds, and the lack of mammalian predators led to some like the kiwi, kākāpō, weka and takahē evolving flightlessness. The arrival of humans, associated...

second-place winner, the little penguin. 2008: The successful campaign to elect kākāpō was accused by the takahē of accepting undeclared donations "from wealthy...

Helena hoopoe, Upupa antaios † Jamaican caracara, Caracara tellustris † Kākāpō, Strigops habroptilus Lyall's wren, Xenicus lyalli † Long-billed wren, Dendroscansor...

Pirongia and Pureora. On July 20, 2023, four kākāpō were reintroduced to the sanctuary, becoming the first kākāpō living in mainland New Zealand in almost...

last five kākāpō held on Maud island were transferred to Chalky Island. The group was composed of four male kākāpō and one female. Several kākāpō were translocated...

  Extinct in the wild (EW): 5 species   Critically endangered (CR): 223 species   Endangered (EN): 460 species   Vulnerable (VU): 798 species   Near threatened...

streamed, capturing its brooding and hatching efforts. Sirocco, a hand-reared kakapo who became an ambassador for his species and conservation in New Zealand...

National Partners of the Department of Conservation Kākāpō Recovery Programme since 2016. Kākāpō are an endangered New Zealand native parrot. The involvement...

These were the aye-aye in Madagascar, the Komodo dragon in Indonesia, the kākāpō in New Zealand, the Amazonian manatee in Brazil, the Yangtze river dolphin...

one of few island sanctuaries that are home to the critically endangered kākāpō (or night parrot). Red deer and stoats had been eradicated between 2001...

for New Zealand Department of Conservation in recovery programs for the Kākāpō and South Island takahē, two endangered birds endemic to New Zealand, and...

was deafening. The mix includes species with unusual biology such as the kākāpō which is the world's only flightless, nocturnal, lek-breeding parrot, but...

1046/j.1365-2699.1996.00041.x. S2CID 59582818. Kakapo Recovery Programme (2010). "Then and Now". Kakapo Recovery Programme. Archived from the original...

was deafening. The mix includes species with unusual biology such as the kākāpō which is the world's only flightless, nocturnal parrot which also exhibits...

written more than 30 non-fiction books and children's books on topics such as kākāpō, takahē, rare wildlife, mountains and nature, and a biography of conservationist...

discovered the lek breeding system of the kākāpō. When Merton began his work as a conservationist, kākāpō were believed to be extinct, but about 20 years...

"whiskers" are kiwis, flycatchers, swallows, nightjars, whip-poor-wills, the kākāpō and the long-whiskered owlet (Xenoglaux loweryi). Some fish have slender...

1474-919X.1893.tb01240.x. Dawson, E. W. (1959). "The supposed occurrence of Kakapo, Kaka and Kea in the Chatham Islands". Notornis. 8 (4): 106–114. Millener...

Nestor (Kea and Kākā), Strigops (Kākāpō) and the fossil Nelepsittacus. It may have been the ancestor of the kākāpō. The species was likely flightless...

Kākāpō specimens at the museum...

the two extant genera of the parrot family Strigopidae. Together with the kākāpō, and the extinct parrots in the genus Nelepsittacus, they form the parrot...