Meet the kakapo—a chunky, moss-green parrot that looks like it waddled out of a fantasy novel and forgot how to fly. This New Zealand native carries one of the bird world's most tragic and oddly ...

A rare bird chick has received lifesaving surgery at a veterinary hospital in a risky first-of-its-kind procedure. Surgeons at Massey University Wildbase Hospital in New Zealand treated the 56-day-old ...

The kakapo parrot (Strigops habroptilus), recognized by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) as a critically-endangered species on the organization’s Red List of Threatened ...

New Zealand's kakapo parrot population is now at its highest level in decades, the country's conservation department announced on Tuesday. The news is a big win for conservationists, Maori tribe ...

Aucklanders and visitors to Auckland are being offered a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to meet the world’s rarest parrot when kakapo Sirocco visits Auckland Zoo next week in celebration of ...

When humans first settled in New Zealand in the 13th century, they found a wonderland of strange creatures—including a green, bumbling parrot with the face of an owl and the mien of an old gentleman.

A lengthy and bitter election campaign that dragged in competing interest groups and was sullied by a voter fraud scandal came to an unlikely end on Monday, when a fat, flightless and nocturnal parrot ...