Rakiura National Park
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Rakiura National Park is a nature reserve park located on Stewart Island / Rakiura, New Zealand. It is the newest national park of New Zealand and opened in 2002. The protected area covers about 85% o
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Robert Beck's Chain Sculpture, at the entrance to Rakiura National Park
Near Port William Hut, North Coast
Rakiura National Park, Stewart Island
Kākāpō
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The kākāpō, sometimes known as the owl-parrot, is a species of large, nocturnal, ground-dwelling parrot of the superfamily Strigopoidea. It is endemic to New Zealand.
Rakiura National Park
…species, can only be found on offshore islands. The South Island kākā can commonly be seen near the town of Halfmoon Bay and Ulva Island. In the 1970s, kākāpō were found in the Tin Range at a time when it was thought that the species was nearly extinct. The kākāpō have been transferred to nearby Codfish Island…
Sirocco full length portrait
Lithograph by David Mitchell that accompanied Gray's original 1845 description
A year-old kākāpō on Codfish Island / Whenua Hou.
The "whiskers" around the beak