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kakapo, owl parrot (Strigops habroptilus)
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Strigops habroptila. Original caption: “Stringops Habroptilus.”
English: Illustration of the Kākāpō.
Māori: Kākāpō
Date 1873
Source Walter Lawry Buller (1838-1906): A History of the Birds of New Zealand 1st edition. 1873, between pages 26,27. http://archive.org/details/NHM243352
Author Lithographic plate by John Gerrard Keulemans (1842–1912)
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:History_of_the_birds_of_NZ_1st_ed_p026-2.jpg
The kakapo (Strigops habroptilus), also called owl parrot and kākāpō or night parrot in Māori, is a species of large, flightless, nocturnal, ground-dwelling parrot of the family Strigopidae endemic to New Zealand. It is the world's only flightless parrot and the heaviest parrot. |
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