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Kakapo
Strigops habroptilus
STATUS:
ESA — ENDANGERED

CONSERVATION:
Wildlife refuge
Kakapo
The kakapo is the world’s largest and heaviest species of parrot. It’s a nocturnal, nearly flightless bird that feeds on fruits, seeds, and other plant matter. Despite strenuous efforts by the New Zealand Department of conservation, it is almost extinct — about 50 kakapos remain alive on two small islands. Many of the plants that the kakapo feeds on only bear fruit every few years. Between these seasons, the slow-moving, solitary bird subsists on a diet of leaves and berries that it crushes — almost chews — with its beak. When there were no predators and no significant competitors in New Zealand, these behaviors worked well for the kakapo. But then came the Polynesians, who hunted the kakapo. With the Europeans came competitors — introduced possums and deer that ate the kakapo’s plants — and more predators — cats and rats that ate the kakapo’s eggs and young. By the 1970s, they were virtually extinct. A tiny breeding population was discovered in 1977 on Stewart Island, a small island off the coast of New Zealand. These birds were moved to the less populated nearby islands of Little Barrier and Codfish to ensure their survival — but the kakapo remains severely endangered, and probably won’t survive much longer.

http://www.amnh.org/nationalcenter/Endangered/zealand/zealand.html