The endangered kakapo is a flightless bird native to New Zealand. Its population is growing, but its parasites have dwindled.

After arriving on New Zealand around 700 years ago, the Maori quickly discovered that the kakapo—a type of flightless parrot—was delicious and easy to catch. Things got worse once Europeans came.

The kakapo, known for its strong legs, is the bird that prefers hiking over flying.

The population of the kakapo, which is the world’s heaviest parrot, is now at its highest number since the 1970s. "There were just 86 kakapo when I first started working as a kakapo ranger in 2002.

Kakapo are probably the weirdest birds in the world: they’re large, flightless, nocturnal parrots. Found only in New Zealand, they are critically endangered and now live only on four predator ...

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.

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 first kakapo to have its DNA fully decoded was a female called Jane. The decoders —Jason Howard and Erich Jarvis from Duke University—were working on a broader effort to sequence the DNA ...

A record number of endangered flightless Kakapo birds have hatched during New Zealand's unusually long 2019 breeding season, dramatically boosting the numbers of the rare native parrot.

The kakapo is a very peculiar member of the parrot family, not least because it is the only one that has lost the ability to fly. Its scientific name, Strigops habroptila, describes its owl-like face ...

The Kakapo, that wonderful New Zealand parrot is back from the brink of extinction. A few months ago there were only 62, now there are 86, all with names, and new chicks are coming. But the plan ...