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 ...

Meet the Kakapo, a tropical bird native to New Zealand. This large, nocturnal bird is the world’s only flightless parrot and is also the heaviest parrot in the world, weighing up to 8 pounds ...

A monumental effort is underway to save one of New Zealand’s best loved birds from extinction. Large, plump and nocturnal, the kakapo is the only parrot in the world that lives on the ground and ...

A record number of endangered flightless Kakapo birds have hatched during New Zealand's unusually long 2019 breeding season, ... they look pretty cute, they're like bumbling puppies at the moment." ...

New Zealand has voted the kakapo its Bird of the Year. It was a tough competition and only a complex election system allowed the big flightless parrot to triumph over its closest rival, the ...

Sirocco, a kakapo raised in captivity who has become the official “spokesbird” for New Zealand conservation, has more than 200,000 followers on Facebook.His failed attempt to mate with the ...

The kakapo, officially the world’s heaviest parrot, won New Zealand’s Bird of the Year vote after a weeks-long campaign that rivaled human political contests in intensity.

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 ...

This large, nocturnal bird is the world’s only flightless parrot and is also the heaviest parrot in the world, weighing up to 8 pounds.

A monumental effort is underway to save one of New Zealand’s best loved birds from extinction. Large, plump and nocturnal, the kakapo is the only parrot in the world that lives on the ground and ...