View Kakapo Bird New Zealand Images. Kakapo are one of the most unique birds on the planet, from being nocturnal, flightless, having a lek breeding system, and even having the potential to. 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.
The kakapos are a species of large, flightless, nocturnal parrots found in new zealand.
A population of less than two hundred birds was discovered on stewart island in 1977, but this population was also declining due. New zealand is an isolated island nation in the southwestern pacific ocean. Flying is hard work and consumes a lot of energy, so over like several other birds unique to new zealand, the kakapo has been extirpated throughout most of its range due to habitat destruction and predation. It was a tough competition and only a complex election system allowed the big flightless parrot to triumph over its closest rival, the antipodean albatross.
