Kākāpō - Night Parrot

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Kākāpō - Night Parrot

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Flightless and nocturnal, the kākāpō is the world's heaviest parrot. By the 1970s the mysterious, moss-coloured bird was facing extinction, "evicted" to Fiordland mountains and Stewart Island by stoats and cats. Thanks to innovative night vision equipment, this film captured for the first time the bird's idiosyncratic courtship rituals, and the first chick found in a century. Marking the directing debut of NHNZ veteran Rod Morris, it screened in the Feltex Award-winning second season of Wild ...

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Video

Date created

1982

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http://www.nzonscreen.com/title/kakapo-night-parrot-1982

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kakapo / conservation / fiordland / wildlife service / nocturnal / cats / stoats / dogs / don merton / stewart island / kakariki / kākāriki / kākā / kea / kaka / piopio / huia / mohua / yellowhead / robin / toutouwai / māori / myth / rakiura / zeniscope / zeniscope lens / depradation / starlightscope / starlight scope

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