Articles for tag: #ChonkyBird, #Kākāpōa, #LongLivedBirds, #NewZealandWildlife, #RareParrot

Meet the Kākāpō: New Zealand’s Chonky, Flightless Parrot That Lives Nearly 100 Years

A single low boom rolling through a New Zealand forest at midnight can carry farther than a passing car – and it comes from a bird that can’t fly. The kākāpō, a moss-green, nocturnal parrot, has teetered on the edge of extinction for more than a century, yet refuses to disappear. Scientists, iwi partners, and ...