Kākāpō rising: 90 chicks swell population of the world’s heaviest parrot

Kākāpō, the world’s only nocturnal and flightless parrot, were once abundant across New Zealand. But their population plummeted after the introduction of predators such as cats and stoats. By the 1900s, they were nearly extinct. Kākāpō breed only every two to four years when the native rimu trees p...

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