Thursday, May 3, 2012 at 18:46 A feisty young patient is set to be discharged from the Auckland Zoo vet centre tomorrow so she can begin her new life at pest-free sanctuary Little Barrier Island.
Wednesday, May 2, 2012 at 15:16 
Whenua Hou/Codfish Island kakapo chicksKakapo Recovery has been given valuable hi-definition video footage - shot by an Emmy award-winning crew on Whenua Hou/Codfish Island - to edit and use to promote the programme.
Strigops habroptilus - Kakapo | in Conservation Wednesday, April 18, 2012 at 2:01 
OUT FOR THE COUNT: Ten-year-old Rakiura will have to stay at Auckland Zoo until a new release date is set. A mystery illness has kept a kakapo grounded and prevented her from being released along with fellow parrots on pest-free Little Barrier Island.
Ten-year-old Rakiura was meant to be freed with seven other kakapo on Saturday, but a disease, which has caused lesions on the bird's backside, mean it will remain at the Auckland Zoo vet centre until a new release date is set.
The birds were released on Little Barrier, where they will remain for at least a decade, to see if they can survive without human help.
Strigops habroptilus - Kakapo | in At the Vet, Conservation, Disease Saturday, April 14, 2012 at 18:26 
Hillary McGregor releases a kakapo. Photo / Deidre VercoeKakapo are back in the North Island for the first time in a decade, after seven of the rare birds were released on Little Barrier Island in the Hauraki Gulf yesterday.
Thursday, March 29, 2012 at 17:28 
DEVASTATING EFFECTS: A healthy red-fronted parakeet provides sharp contrast to a bird severely affected by the beak and feather virus.Researchers at Auckland Zoo are trying to understand a virus that is affecting native parrots and spreading through the country.
Beak and feather disease was found in kakariki parrots in 2008 and this year has turned up in the South Island for the first time.
The virus seemed to be confined to introduced parrots until it appeared four years ago in the Hauraki Gulf.
In January, it appeared in Fiordland in a second species of kakariki, which is also known as the New Zealand parakeet.