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Wikipedia: The Kakapo, Strigops habroptila, also called owl parrot, is a species of flightless nocturnal parrot endemic to New Zealand. It has finely blotched yellow-green plumage, a distinct facial disc of sensory, vibrissa-like feathers, a large grey beak, short legs, large feet, and wings and a tail of relatively short length. A certain combination of traits makes it unique among its kind—it is the world's only flightless parrot, the heaviest parrot, nocturnal, herbivorous, visibly sexually dimorphic in body size, has a low basal metabolic rate, no male parental care, and is the only parrot to have a polygynous lek breeding system.
![[Milford Sound with Sinbad Gully between mountains on the far side of the shore of a fjord]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Milford_Sound_and_Simbad_Gulley_New_Zealand_9Jan2009_s.jpg "Milford Sound with Sinbad Gully between mountains on the far side of the shore of a fjord")
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![[A Kakapo camouflaged by its feathers.]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Strigops_habroptilus_2C_camouflage_s.jpg "A Kakapo camouflaged by its feathers.")
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![[The "whiskers" around the beak.]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Strigops_habroptilus_2C_face_s.jpg "The \"whiskers\" around the beak.")
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![[Illustration of a Kakapo from the book "Birds of New Zealand" by Walter Lawry Buller, published in 1873]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Kakapo2_s.jpg "Illustration of a Kakapo from the book \"Birds of New Zealand\" by Walter Lawry Buller, published in 1873")
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![[A year-old Kakapo on Codfish Island.]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Strigops_habroptilus_1_s.jpg "A year-old Kakapo on Codfish Island.")
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