The Fantastic Kakapo Parrot
The curiosities about the Kakapo and the process of endangering of the most fantastic bird.
The Kakapo Parrot,also called owl parrot, is a bird that is originated from New Zealand.
It comes from the Animalia kingdom; the Chordata phylum, comes also from the Birds class, the Psittaciformes order, the Strigops genus and from the S.habroptilus species.
The Kakapo became endangered by the Polynesian and European colonization that introduced predators, like cats, rats, ferrets and soats, in their habitat.
The Kakapo became endangered by the Polynesian and European colonization that introduced predators, like cats, rats, ferrets and soats, in their habitat.
The Kakapo Parrot has a kind of beak that only permits it to eat foods like, native plants, seeds, fruits and pollen. This concludes the food chain and the process of endangering of Kakapo Parrot.
The first effort to keep the species of Kakapo alive was in 1891 when the New Zealand government separated the resolution Island as a natural reserve. With this effort they were able to move more than 200 Kakapos from the main island to the natural reserve, however, the stoats had swum to Resolution Island and colonized it.
The second effort was by New Zealand Wild-life Service. They organized regular expeditions to search for the Kakapo. In the first expedition they could find 6 birds, but with time they were dying slowly. In the next 12 years, the expedition found few signs of Kakapo. However, in their last expedition they found a track and a bowl system, after they located several dozen Kakapo. The total population was estimated at 100 to 200 birds.The third effort was the Kakapo Recovery Plan replacing the Wild-life Service for this task and establishing a Kakapo Recovery Group.
The first step was to move the remaining Kakapo to suitable Island for them to breed. The second, last and most important part of the plan was the suplementary feeding of females.
