Kakapo

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Food

Kakapos eat rimu berries, vegetables and leaves. Young kakapos eat fruit and adults like soft leaves. Kakapos sometimes eat fruit, bark, seeds, bulbs, leaves, steams and roots.

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Kakapos are the most endangered bird in New Zealand. Predator-free is in the far south. Kakapos have been known to be an easy prey for predators.

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Eggs

• Female Kakapos hide their eggs underground and sit on them for a whole month. The baby takes two minutes to hatch.

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Good looks

• Sometimes Kakapos are called parrots. Kakapos have soft green feathers. Kakapos have wings but can’t fly. Kakapos look like owls but they are parrots. Sometimes males puff up like green balloons. The Kakapo is the heaviest parrot in the world.

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Go to sleep

• Kakapos sleep all day and walk around at night eating.

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Nest building

• Kakapos live under trees like kiwis, and Kakapos spends a whole day to make there houses

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• In the breeding season the kakapos can inflate like a balloon and emit a low sonic boom which in mountainous terrain can be heard up to five kilometres away. Kakapos only breed every three years.

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Can you help?

• Wildlife have rescued the remaining of Kakapos from danger.

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• Endangered- an animal species that doesn't have many more of them.

• Low sonic boom- a Kakapo that makes a loud booming noise.

• mountainous terrains- like on a mountain.• Predator-free- No animals that attack it. Bulbs-a seed of a plant

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