Kakapo: References & Edit History

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Article History

Type Description Contributor Date
Article title updated for style. Nov 13, 2026
Article revised and updated. Nov 09, 2026
Modified link of Web site: National Center for Biotechnology Information - PubMed Central - Anatomical Specializations for Nocturnality in a Critically Endangered Parrot, the Kakapo (Strigops habroptilus). Aug 21, 2026
Add new Web site: White Rose Research Online - Low hatching success in the critically endangered kakapo is driven by early embryo mortality not infertility (PDF). Feb 14, 2026
Add new Web site: CiteSeerX - Making endangered species safe: the case of the kokako of North Island, New Zealand (PDF). Apr 14, 2025
Add new Web site: Academia - Too Cute to Shoot? The Kakapo and Conservation (PDF). Feb 26, 2025
Add new Web site: National Center for Biotechnology Information - PubMed Central - Anatomical Specializations for Nocturnality in a Critically Endangered Parrot, the Kakapo (Strigops habroptilus). Jan 03, 2025
Add new Web site: Cell Press - Cell Genomics - Population genomics of the critically endangered kākāpō. Nov 22, 2024
Add new Web site: Audubon - Kakapo. Jul 05, 2024
Add new Web site: Frontiers - The Low-Diversity Fecal Microbiota of the Critically Endangered Kākāpō Is Robust to Anthropogenic Dietary and Geographic Influences. May 15, 2024
Add new Web site: New Zealanf]d Government - Department of Conservation - Kākāpō. Apr 04, 2024
Add new Web site: Nature - Science, sex and the kakapo. Feb 23, 2024
Add new Web site: Animalia - Kakapo. Jan 08, 2024
Add new Web site: University of California, Berkeley - Understanding Evolution - Conserving the kakapo. Nov 27, 2023
Add new Web site: New Zealand Birds Online - Kakapo. Jul 28, 2023
Add new Web site: Natural History Museum - New Zealand's quirky kākāpō are pulled back from the edge of extinction. Jun 16, 2023
Add new Web site: Animal Diversity Web - Kakapo. Apr 21, 2023
Add new Web site: A-Z Animals - Kakapo. Jan 09, 2023
Article updated to include the real possibility that the total population has climbed to more than 100 individuals. Apr 30, 2009
Added new Web site: Enchanted Learning - Kakapo. Feb 27, 2008
Added new Web site: The Encyclopedia of New Zealand - kakapo. May 11, 2007
Added new Web site: The Fabulous Kakapo. May 23, 2006
Article revised. Sep 09, 2005
Article added to new online database. Jul 20, 1998
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