Kakapo recovery faces setback
Jul 07, 2021
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– Ed.
WHENUA Hou (Codfish Island), in southernmost New Zealand, is famous as the home of most of the world’s surviving kakapos (Strigops habroptila).
These extraordinary flightless and nocturnal parrots remain only on four small islands that are free of predatory introduced rats. The population is intensively monitored, and each kakapo carries a GPS
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