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The most interesting/unusual bird I've heard about- Kakapo
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The world's heaviest, and only flightless, nocturnal parrot .....
Kakapo hold quite a few world records. It is the only flightless parrot, and the only nocturnal parrot. And it is the world's heaviest parrot, with males weighing up to 4 kg. Females are 65 percent of the weight of males.
The kakapo is not biologically close to other parrot species. Sometimes called the night parrot, or owl-parrot, it has some features of an owl, such as fur-like discs around its'
The kakapo is one of the most outrageously funny, loving and strangest birds in a land renowned for unusual creatures. Life moves very slowly for the kakapo - it seems locked in another time. It is slow to breed and lives longer than any other bird. It has hung on, with no known female it was effectively extinct for three-quarters of the 20th century, and dangerously close to extinction during the last quarter century. For three decades, kakapo have had help in the most extensive protected breeding programme, which has increased the population from the low point of 51 birds to 103
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