New Zealand's critically endangered flightless parrot, the kakapo, started breeding last week for the first time in four ...

WELLINGTON, Jan. 6 (Xinhua) -- New Zealand's critically endangered kakapo is entering its first breeding season in four years, raising hopes for what could be the largest hatching on record.

WELLINGTON: Said to be the world's fattest parrot, the critically endangered kakapo has enjoyed a record breaking breeding season, New Zealand scientists said on Thursday, with climate change possibly ...

Good news for all those animal lovers out there: the New Zealand Department of Conservation claims that the kakapo parrot (also widely renowned as the world’s ‘fattest’ parrot species) has just ...

The world's fattest parrot, the critically endangered kakapo, has enjoyed a record breaking breeding season, New Zealand scientists said on Thursday, with climate change said to be a factor. The ...

DNA evidence appears to have revealed an ancient parrot-breeding operation in the southwestern United States, a new study reports. A team of researchers from several U.S. universities analyzed ancient ...

Deep amid the dense greenery of a rain forest, down an unmarked road, behind a barbed wire fence in a low-slung compound monitored by security cameras, government scientists are nursing a special ...

There are fears the survival of the swift parrot has been further compromised. Environment Tasmania said right to information documents revealed evidence of the Department of Primary Industries, Parks ...

Researchers have found Tasmania's swift parrot population is declining more rapidly than first thought and the species is "on a trajectory to extinction". The five-year study by a team at the ...

Environment minister will rule if Tasmanian forest that is home to the critically endangered parrot can be bulldozed Tasmanian forest considered important for the survival of the critically endangered ...

The kākāpō has had its most successful breeding season since conservation efforts rescued it from the brink of extinction in the 1970s The world’s heaviest parrot, a critically endangered bird that ...

In a neighborhood on the outskirts of Miami, a red-bellied woodpecker made two individual nests in two neighboring dead palm trees. It picked one. A red-masked parakeet moved into the other. Over the ...