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 kākāpō is New Zealand's chunky, flightless parrot. They like eating fruit and making sounds like little tubas all night ...

WELLINGTON, New Zealand -- The future of New Zealand's fat, flightless kakapo parrots once looked so bleak that some of the endangered birds were named after types of cat food-- because that's how ...

When humans first settled in New Zealand in the 13th century, they found a wonderland of strange creatures—including a green, bumbling parrot with the face of an owl and the mien of an old gentleman.

It’s as plump as a goose, has the face of an owl and waddles like a duck. It sleeps in the day and is active at night. And it can climb just about anything but can’t fly anywhere. No wonder people ...

Of the more than 200 hundred eggs laid by the kakapo females, 75 of them are predicted to live, Andrew Digby, who serves as a science advisor to New Zealand's kakapo recovery operation, told AFP on ...

The kakapo parrot (Strigops habroptilus), recognized by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) as a critically-endangered species on the organization’s Red List of Threatened ...

A rare bird chick has received lifesaving surgery at a veterinary hospital in a risky first-of-its-kind procedure. Surgeons at Massey University Wildbase Hospital in New Zealand treated the 56-day-old ...