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Kakapo (Strigops habroptilus)

Postby birdvet » Sun Apr 17, 2011 1:32 am

I haven't perused this forum in ages, been super busy with the new job and now I'm hand raising a kakapo chick that I have in hospital because she's unwell - 16 hour days, 7 days a week to care for this kid...high maintenance little chickie!!! I thought this would be a great opportunity to get a kakapo discussion thread up and running :D. I'll post some photos of her soon, in the mean time, peruse this link to read a bit about her as well as check out the kakapo recovery team webpage.

www.kakaporecovery.org.nz

http://www.stuff.co.nz/environment/4890 ... ling-chick

It's such a priviledge to be involved with these birds...AMAZING doesn't even begin to describe them :thumbsup:
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Re: Kakapo (Strigops habroptilus)

Postby captwest » Sun Apr 17, 2011 8:47 am

Hey Bird Vet, good to see you here again.Sounds as if your doing great work with very neat birds, keep up the good work and keep us informed, Richard.
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Re: Kakapo (Strigops habroptilus)

Postby Chris&Akilah » Sun Apr 17, 2011 11:16 am

That's such a cute baby. Best of luck I hope she grows up strong and makes more little big parrots. Great work you are doing!
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Re: Kakapo (Strigops habroptilus)

Postby captwest » Sun Apr 17, 2011 1:53 pm

I'd like to work with rare birds like that, I think i'd be good at it.Keep up the good work.
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Re: Kakapo (Strigops habroptilus)

Postby Vicki5280 » Fri Apr 22, 2011 12:28 am

Great work you all are going with those big little birdies. Keep us posted on how she does. She's a cutie! (I'll just call him/her a her for now, why not?)
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Re: Kakapo (Strigops habroptilus)

Postby zazanomore » Fri Apr 22, 2011 6:48 am

Bonnie - :budgie2:
Clyde - :budgie:
Einstein - :greycockatiel:
Alyssa - :thumbsup:
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Re: Kakapo (Strigops habroptilus)

Postby Vicki5280 » Fri Apr 22, 2011 9:26 am

He he! That's one of my all-time favorite videos!! Thanks for reposting!
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Re: Kakapo (Strigops habroptilus)

Postby Chris&Akilah » Fri Apr 22, 2011 8:53 pm

lol I felt so sorry for the poor guy being 'mounted', everyones laughing but that must have hurt!
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Re: Kakapo (Strigops habroptilus)

Postby entrancedbymyGCC » Mon Apr 25, 2011 7:03 pm

Hey birdvet, good to "see" you!
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Re: Kakapo (Strigops habroptilus)

Postby birdvet » Fri Apr 29, 2011 11:45 pm

Good news! Solstice 1 is doing great and I'm flying her back home next week. Also get to do a check up on another 6 chicks that they're handrearing...what a tough job!!! I have heaps of photos of the little cutie, will post some soon. In the meantime here are some other links for you to peruse. Oh, and Sirocco is AWESOME!!! He is also VERY horny...always!!!

http://www.3news.co.nz/Kakapo-chicks-ge ... t.aspx#top

http://www.flickr.com/photos/psychokiwi ... 389232179/
(the above were poseted on Sirocco's facebook site...a visitor to the zoo caught some of the action)

Right, better go and feed the little critter, I'm sure she's hungry :-)
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