The kakapo is a large, flightless and nocturnal parrot found only in New Zealand. It has green feathers with black and yellow markings, a heavy body that can weigh up to 3 kg, and small wings that are used for balance rather than flight. Kakapos eat various plant materials like fruits, seeds, roots and fungi. They are critically endangered due to introduced predators like rats that eat their eggs and chicks, as well as habitat destruction. Conservation efforts are underway to help increase the kakapo population, which currently consists of less than 200 individuals.

2. Kakapo Parrot

3. Kakapo Parrot
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olivia maya milsom

4. Kakapo Parrot
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olivia maya milsom
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5. Kakapo Parrot
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olivia maya milsom
2012

6. Appearance
Diet Habitat
Other
The Kakapo Mates
Facts
Babies Threats
Size &
Weight

7. what is a kakapo
the kakapo is the only flightless parrot
alive and is endangered. they are also the
only nocturnal parrot in the world.

8. appearance
• some feathers are soft
• moss-green colour
• black on back
• yellow-green on belly
• owl like face
• blue-grey parrot shaped beak
• small wings
• Sharp claws
• big

9. size
and weight
• length up to 630 mm (63 cm)
• weigh up to 2-3 kgs (2000-3000 g)
• 62-64 (620-640 mm) long
• males weigh up to 3 kg (3000 g)

10. diet
• fruit of rimu, kahikatea and mingimingi, the
seeds of manuka and leatherwood trees
• summer and autumn they drink rata nectar
and in winter they eat sun orchid bulbs
• flax seeds
• they eat fruits, leaves, roots of grasses, ferns,
fungi, lizards, insects and grubs
• wild kakapos eat tussock
• herbivores

11. habitat
• lived in new zealand
• lived in of the southat the
bottom
the islands
island
and fiordland
• burrows
• trees

12. threats
• destruction of rimu, kahikatea
mingimingi, manuka and leatherwood
trees has taken away their food source
(fruit and seeds)
• Early Polynesian settlers hunted the bird
for its plumage (feathers) and meat
• fire to bush for farming
• rats, possums, stoats and the giant eagle
(now extinct) are their predators
• maoris killed them for cloaks (i
cloak=10000 feathers)

13. babies
• only breed when rimu, kahikatea, mingimingi and the
seeds of manuka and leatherwood trees fruit (every 2-3
years)
• chicks hatch after 30 days
• 2-4 eggs at a time
• chicks stay with mother for 3 months
• eggs can grow up to 500mm long
• fathers are not stay at home parents
• mother incubates the eggs
• mother does all the work
• when the eggs have hatched mother goes and finds food

14. mates
• when the male wants a mate they
make a big boom
• the boom attracts the females
• females watch the male make the
boom then decide if they want to be
their mate
• the boom is 2-3 seconds long and is
repeated
• the boom can be heard from 5-7 km
away

15. Male Booming

17. Other facts
• less than 60 left
• can live up to 60 years
• early europeans named it owl parrot
• only flightless parrot
• only nocturnal parrot
• uses wings to balance
• worlds heaviest parrot(2-3kg)
• kakapo means night parrot
• when threatened main plan is to freeze

18. funny bird

20. thanks for
watching!
by olivia maya milsom
i hope you learnt something new!
bibliography
native birds of new zealand- D.h. brathwaite
from weta to kauri- janet hunt & rob lucas
rare birds of new zealand- geoff moon
birds of new zealand- geoff moon
kakapo- alison ballance
the big book of new zealand wild life- dave gunson
kiwi conservation club
BBC