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KAKAPO RESCUE: SAVING THE WORLD'S STRANGEST PARROT

Author Information
Author's Last Name: 
Montgomery
Author's First Name: 
Sy
Illustrator's First Name: 
Nic
Illustrator's Last Name: 
Bishop
Publisher: 
Houghton Mifflin
Publication Date: 
2010

The flightless kakapo, which weighs up to nine pounds, faces extinction on its remote New Zealand island. Stunning photographs and an informal narrative introduce the world’s rarest and heaviest parrot as well as the scientists who are trying to save it.