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Close up of kakapo chick (8528279129)🦜

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SpeciesPsittaciformesPsittacidae
Birds

🦜Kākāpō

Strigops habroptila G.R.Gray, 1845

De kakapo (Strigops habroptilus) is een herbivore, zware en niet-vliegende papegaaiachtige die endemisch is in Nieuw-Zeeland. De kakapo speelt een grote rol in de mythologie van de Maori, en was voor hen ook economisch van belang (als voedselbron, veren voor kleding).

Text: Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Videos
26
Photos
6
Measurements
12
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
Details ↓

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

Maximum lifespan
60 years
AnAge
Details ↓

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
Details ↓

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

Habitat
Forest
AVONET
Details ↓

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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More about the Kākāpō

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
More photos
Close up of kakapo chick (8528279129)Kakapo (Strigops habroptila) 6Kakapo chick (8528250083)
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