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Donkees

(32,437 posts) Sat Dec 17, 2022, 07:25 AM Dec 2022

Kakapo - The Strangest Parrot in the World

Sep 30, 2017
The kakapo is a very rare, plump parrot that lives in New Zealand. It's inability to fly and that it's nocturnal make it the strangest parrot in the world.

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Kakapo - The Strangest Parrot in the World (Original Post) Donkees Dec 2022 OP

Oh no! Only 160 left. GreenWave Dec 2022 #1

''It was speculated that cats would have caused the extinction of the kakapo on Stewart Island ... Donkees Dec 2022 #2

I was thinking along the same lines. GreenWave Dec 2022 #5

Interesting parrot! burrowowl Dec 2022 #3

New Zealand is working hard to save them and Kiwis and sinkingfeeling Dec 2022 #4

👇👇👇 Goonch Dec 2022 #6

GreenWave

(9,416 posts)

1. Oh no! Only 160 left.

Reply to Donkees (Original post)

Sat Dec 17, 2022, 07:53 AM

Dec 2022

Donkees

(32,437 posts)

2. ''It was speculated that cats would have caused the extinction of the kakapo on Stewart Island ...

Reply to GreenWave (Reply #1)

Sat Dec 17, 2022, 08:50 AM

Dec 2022

It was speculated that cats would have caused the extinction of the kakapo on Stewart Island / Rakiura, had the birds not been moved to other islands. The introduction of cats on to Mangere, Herekopare and Raoul Islands caused localised extinctions of bird species.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cats_in_New_Zealand