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K akapos are a special parrot. They are the only parrot that is flightless and nocturnal. The Kakapos are a very rare parrot. Kakapos can be found only on Codfish Island / Whenau Hou, which is close to the South Island. The Kakapos are now only on Codfish Island because people brought pets to New Zealand. Dogs, Cats, rats, stoats were the ones they had brought and they ate the Kakapos. Possums also ate them. Now there are only 124 left. Then they were taken to Codfish Island. Kakapos eat rimu fruit from Codfish Island. The rimu fruit is a kind of spicky looking thing that is red. Male Kakapos make a bowl and then make a "booming" sound to attract the female Kakapos. When they do they puff up like a little green ball. That's when they are about to boom. But the female and the male Kakapos don't stay together. Thats why female Kakapos are solo mothers. The booming sounds like trumpets going for 1 second. People aren't allowed to go to Codfish Island unless they haven't touched anything dirty or sick. The Kakapos are safe because there is water around Codfish Island and the predators can not reach them. Helicopters have to land on the beach when there is low tide. All Kakapos wear transmitters so DOC staff know where they are. There's a thing called a "snark" which is a big box that tells the DOC staff if the Kakapo is there or not, which Kakapo are booming at tracks or bowls and how long and if there are other Kakapos around. The DOC staff can spy on the Kakapos because of the snark. The Kakapos wings can't make them fly but it makes them balance. Once Kakapos were able to fly a long time ago. Kakapos use their strong thighs and their big feet to climb trees and search for some food. They also use them to crack open nuts. Kakapos no longer bred because the rimu fruit crops had died and the babies couldn't eat the rimu fruit. On Codfish Island there are people who help them. There was a program manager named Deidre Vercoe, two scientists named Ron Moorhouse and Graeme Elliot, there was a technical officer named Daryl Eason, there is also a ranger operations named Jo Ledington. The Kakapo rangers are Chris Birmingham, Dana Boyte, Ruth Cole, Steve horn, Phil Marsh, Jason Malham, Errol Nye, Vanessa Smith and Jo Whitehead. There is actually only 80 Kakapos on Codfish Island and there is Anchor Island with the rest. Anchor Island has 44 of the Kakapos. Codfish Island is close to Invercagill that is near the South Island. Some Ambassadors went to Whenua Hou. Their names were Biggles the bear, Legs the spider, Egbert a monster, Cody the dog, Tahi the dark brown kiwi and Wingless the other kiwi. The Kakapos are related to the Kea and the Kaka.