New Zealand's critically endangered flightless parrot, the kakapo, started breeding last week for the first time in four ...

New Zealand’s critically endangered flightless parrot, the kakapo, started breeding last week for the first time in four ...

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 ...

New Zealand's kakapo parrot population is now at its highest level in decades, the country's conservation department announced on Tuesday. The news is a big win for conservationists, Maori tribe ...

Critically endangered native bird and world's fattest parrot Kakapo has won New Zealand Bird of the Year 2020 for the second time. The flightless bird has stunned pundits with her second victory which ...

Aucklanders and visitors to Auckland are being offered a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to meet the world’s rarest parrot when kakapo Sirocco visits Auckland Zoo next week in celebration of ...

A rare bird chick has received lifesaving surgery at a veterinary hospital in a risky first-of-its-kind procedure. Surgeons at Massey University Wildbase Hospital in New Zealand treated the 56-day-old ...

The world's fattest parrot can't fly, and now it can't run either. Voting began on Monday in New Zealand's Bird of the Year contest, and twitchers are already angry at a decision to ban the ...