Baby boom for the kakapo, New Zealand’s critically endangered parrot

Andrew Digby/Fresh Zealand division of conservation

By Ruby Prosser Scully

There is recent hope for the sphere’s fattest parrot, the critically endangered kakapo, after the birth of a record-breaking series of chicks.

Fewer than 150 adult kakapo are residing in Fresh Zealand this day after their numbers had been decimated by making an strive, pests and deforestation. However an gigantic effort to regrow the inhabitants is paying off, with virtually 90 chicks anticipated to hatch over the breeding season.

The nocturnal, flightless chicken breeds when the rimu tree – a conifer – is full with fruit, and this …