New Zealand's kakapo have laid 256 eggs, and around 100 of them have hatched, providing a bright spot in a decades-long ...

Imagine a bird that cannot fly, is active mostly at night, and lives in some of the most remote places on Earth. Now imagine ...

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, ...

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 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 ...

Conservationists in New Zealand are celebrating after an extremely rare kakapo chick hatched from a cracked egg held together by nothing more than tape and glue. The bird joins a global kakapo ...

FRESH START: Conservation Minister Nick Smith and New Zealand Aluminium Smelters general manager Gretta Stephens help release a kakapo into the wild. Photo: NEIL RATLEY On a small island jutting out ...

2019 has been a successful year so far for one of the world's most endangered birds. The kakapo, which has only 147 adults left, has had their best breeding season on record. The Department of ...

Kakapo were one of New Zealand's most common birds, but are now on the brink of extinction Kakapos - the world's fattest species of parrot - have had their most successful breeding season on record, ...