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Night parrot. Hoki hatched on Codfish Island in 1992, and was the first to be successfully hand-reared. She has yet to produce any surviving offspring, but at just 21, she should have many reproductive years ahead. Image by Chrissie Goldrick By the mid-20th century it seemed inevitable the kakapo would be added to the long list of extinct New Zealand birds, but this peculiar parrot wasn’t quite ready for its swan song.

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