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Sirocco (hatched 23 March 1997) [1] is a kākāpō, a large, flightless, nocturnal parrot, and one of the remaining living individuals numbering only 244 (as of 2024). [2] He achieved individual fame following an incident on the BBC television series Last Chance to See in which he attempted to mate with zoologist Mark Carwardine.
Kākāpō are the heaviest living species of parrot and on average weigh about 400 g (14 oz) more than the largest flying parrot, the hyacinth macaw. [28] The kākāpō cannot fly, having relatively short wings for its size and lacking the keel on the sternum (breastbone), where the flight muscles of other birds attach. [5]
Broadcast 20 September 2009, 2.15 million viewers (7.7% audience share) [6] The third programme is set in Madagascar, where Adams and Carwardine conceived the idea for Last Chance to See on their first travels together in 1985. In Nosy Mangabe, they encountered a wild aye-aye, a rare nocturnal lemur. Carwardine brings Fry to the tree where he ...
A video of nets in the trees and an unidentified man slamming captured parrots against a concrete wall between Rosemead Boulevard and East Las Tunas Drive on Oct. 26 fueled angry calls and letters ...
Cosmo's mom shared a video on Tuesday, April 16th of the parrot and her 'bro' greeting each other. Make sure your sound is on so you can hear the exchange! She sounds just like my kids!
The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department has no leads a week after video evidence surfaced of an unidentified man setting up nets in Temple City and illegally trapping red-crowned amazons.
The New Zealand parrot family, Strigopidae, [1] consists of at least three genera of parrots – Nestor, Strigops, the fossil Nelepsittacus, [2] [3] and probably the fossil Heracles. [4] The genus Nestor consists of the kea , kākā , Norfolk kākā and Chatham kākā , [ 5 ] [ 6 ] while the genus Strigops contains the iconic kākāpō . [ 5 ]
The hilarious video was shared by the TikTok account for @Kiki.tiel and people can't get enough of this musical bird. One person commented, "You didn’t turn it off, just snoozed it."