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Re: Kakapos have best season!

Postby Pajarita » Mon Nov 18, 2019 9:48 am

Squawk Squad helping NZ birds with technology (BEAUTIFUL picture of two kakapos! but click on it to see the video).

https://www.msn.com/en-nz/news/national ... ar-BBWUrGE
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Re: Kakapos have best season!

Postby Pajarita » Fri Jan 03, 2020 10:26 am

The fight to save the kakapo from extinction continues...

https://inhabitat.com/saving-new-zealan ... xtinction/
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Re: Kakapos have best season!

Postby Pajarita » Fri Jan 17, 2020 10:16 am

This article pretty much says the same thing as some of the previous ones but it gives a more comprehensive notion of exactly what is being done - and it also has a picture of the most ADORABLE 4 day old baby kakapo!

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technolo ... ar-BBZ2Rhi
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Re: Kakapos have best season!

Postby Pajarita » Sat Feb 22, 2020 10:35 am

Richard Henry, first true conservationist who saved 700 kakapos by rowing them to safety in his boat in the late 1800's!

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/r ... nservation
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Re: Kakapos have best season!

Postby Pajarita » Mon Mar 16, 2020 9:59 am

How the kakapo came back from the brink:\

https://www.theguardian.com/environment ... nction-aoe
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Re: Kakapos have best season!

Postby Pajarita » Wed Apr 22, 2020 10:06 am

"To know them is to love them' - very nice piece written by a conservation biologists that works with kakapos

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-01129-7
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Re: Kakapos have best season!

Postby Pajarita » Thu Jun 04, 2020 11:40 am

Pajarita
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Re: Kakapos have best season!

Postby Pajarita » Tue Nov 17, 2020 12:00 pm

They were chosen the 2020 New Zealand bird of the year:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/ ... r-for-2020
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