Download Kakapo Parrot New Zealand PNG. It is the world's only flightless parrot, the heaviest parrot, nocturnal, herbivorous, visibly sexually dimorphic in body size. Only 189 kakapo live in.

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First, kakapo only breed when new zealand's rimu trees yield lots of fruit—their berries are high in vitamin d and calcium, key nutrients. Kakapo are the world's heaviest species of parrot, with females weighing around 1.4 kgs (3.1 pounds) and males 2.2 kgs (4.8 pounds). Large, plump and nocturnal, the kakapo is the only parrot in the world that lives on the ground and cannot fly.

Before humans arrived, kākāpō were abundant throughout new zealand.

As of december 2017, there are only 154 living the word kakapo was derived from the maori words kākā (parrot) + pō (night). Many of its plants and animals — like the kakapo — are found nowhere else. 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 stunned pundits to claim an upset victory.