Saturday, April 14, 2012 at 15:26 
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 14:28 
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.
Tuesday, March 6, 2012 at 0:26 
CRITICALLY ENDANGERED: According to the Department of Conservation there are only 126 known surviving kakapo, including 11 new chicks born in 2011.They are calling it the search for the last kakapo.
Sunday, March 4, 2012 at 23:01 
Genetic weakenes may be the underlying couse of recent Kakapo deaths The death of a young male kakapo last week – the fifth since September – may be linked to poor genetics, prompting the Kakapo Recovery team to consider removing Basil, an Anchor Island-based bird, from the breeding programme.
Wednesday, February 22, 2012 at 12:15 
Camouflaged: The Kakapo parrot, one of just 124, was captured amid dense scrub on a compact cameraThink pandas are inept when it comes to carrying on the species? Think again. The giant panda is a champion reproducer compared to a chubby, land-bound parrot called the kakapo. Between navigational problems, botanical problems, and the occasions when horny male parrots try to have sex with animals that can kill them, this is the most hopelessly inefficient reproducer on Earth.
Strigops habroptilus - Kakapo | in Conservation, Fun, Oddities 
