7 Rarest Birds In The World

Kakapo

Also recognized as “owl parrot”, the kakapo bird is endemic to New Zealand. Kakapos are the only flightless and heaviest parrots in the world. This bird species were used heavily for hunting and other resource purposes. There are just about 211 of their kind living on earth and are critically endangered. Further, they suffered a bad impact on them getting killed due to introductory predators such as cats, ferrets in their then residing islands. However, the kakapos are now residing in two small islands namely, Codfish / Whenua Hou and Anchor. These two islands consist of relatively no predators for Kakapos. The two islands are under surveillance as part of conservation.

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