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Close up of kakapo chick (8528279129)🦜

Photo: Department of Conservation · CC BY 2.0

SpeciesPsittaciformesPsittacidae
Birds

🦜Kākāpō

Strigops habroptila G.R.Gray, 1845

Kakapo soví (Strigops habroptilus), jinak též papoušek soví, je jeden z nejvzácnějších papoušků na světě, který přežívá na několika ostrovech Nového Zélandu, zbavených introdukovaných savčích predátorů. Dosahuje výšky kolem 60 centimetrů, váhy až 4 kg, takže je největším a nejtěžším papouškem na světě, a neumí létat. Jeho obličej připomíná sovu, a jako sova se také vyznačuje noční aktivitou (kākāpō v řeči původních obyvatel, Maorů, znamená noční papoušek). Může se dožít cca 60 let a někdy i výrazně více.

Text: Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Measurements
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vs you
≈ 1/36th of your weight
Also called
Kakapo, Owl Parrot
Conservation status
CRCritically endangered

IUCN Red List assessment.

Key measurements
Body mass
1.73 kg
Body length
not recorded
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
60 years
All measurements ↓
Facts and figures

Everything we know about the Kākāpō

Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.

Body mass
1.73 kg
AVONET
Other figures ↓

Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Figures vary

  • 1.75 kgAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Tail length
0.23 m
AVONET
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Wing length
0.28 m
AVONET
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Beak length
0.05 m
AVONET
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Tarsus length
0.05 m
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Maximum lifespan
60 years
AnAge
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data quality: acceptable

Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0

Gestation
30 days
AnAge
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data quality: acceptable

Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0

Litter size
about 3
AnAge
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data quality: acceptable

Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0

Trophic level
Herbivore
AVONET
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Habitat
Forest
AVONET
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Lifestyle
Generalist
AVONET
Details ↓

Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Volume l
1.7 Laverage
Details ↓

Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.

average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.

Not recorded for Kākāpō yet: body length, shoulder height, top speed, bite force.

Where it sits

Family tree

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classAves
  4. ›orderPsittaciformes
  5. ›familyPsittacidae
  6. ›genusStrigops
  7. ›speciesStrigops habroptila
Full lineage
  1. orderSauria
  2. classBirds · Aves
  3. orderParrots · Psittaciformes
  4. genusStrigops
All 11 branches ↓
  1. kingdomMetazoa
  2. phylumChordata
  3. subphylumCraniata
  4. subphylumVertebrata
  5. superclassGnathostomata
  6. superclassSarcopterygii
  7. superclassTetrapoda
  8. orderSauria
  9. classBirds · Aves
  10. orderParrots · Psittaciformes
  11. genusStrigops
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Closest relative on this site
🦜 Budgerigar — last shared an ancestor ≈ 56 million years ago.
In other languages
kakapo (sv), kakapo soví (cs), Kakapo (de), Kakapo (es), Strigops habroptila (it), フクロウオウム (ja) … and 28 more languages

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