Typically, the loudest male gets the most mates. ... As of this year, the official kakapo population is over 250 individuals, according to the New Zealand Department of Conservation.

Not many people go there. But the odd hunter was starting to come back with some reports of booming heard down in the Southern Stewart Island. And, of course, booming is the noise that a male kakapo ...

Veterinarians in New Zealand are working to save the critically endangered kakapo parrot species, which is at risk of being wiped out due to a fungal infection spreading among the birds.. Less ...

THE KAKAPO, a cuddly bird that lives in New Zealand, is not designed for survival. Weighing up to 4kg, it is the world’s fattest and least flighty parrot. It mates only when the rimu tree is in ...

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 ...

For the first time in almost 40 years, New Zealand’s quirky and critically endangered kākāpō will return to the country’s mainland. Kākāpō are large flightless parrots that used to be ...

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 kakapo's relationship with humans has long been troubled. When Polynesian settlers arrived in New Zealand around 700 years ago, they hunted it extensively, no doubt because it was easy prey.

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 ...

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 ...