It's good to share good news. #kakapo

A female kakapo on a nest facing the camera, with a young chick in front of her. Credit: Andrew Digby

This year's #kakapo breeding season has been the biggest on record:
- 256 eggs (252 in 2019)
- 148 fertile eggs (116 in 2019)
- 105 eggs hatched (86 in 2019).
It'll be 2+ months until we know how many chicks will fledge (73 in 2019). There are currently 95 alive. #conservation #kakapo2026 #birds

#Kākāpō perspective: #Artemis II astronauts emerge through the hatch.
Crops empty.
Following heath checks they will be fitted with backpack transmitters, given names, & be officially added to the total population.

#kakapo #splashdown #NewZealand #conservation #science #crossoverhumour

Flight Day 7 for #Artemis :
Earthset. Far Side of the Moon.
Long Solar Eclipse. Long distance call with #ISS

The day for the #kākāpō chicks:
had a nap.
then another nap.
then a brief moment of absolute nonsense.

Progress comes in many forms.

#conservation #kakapo #space #NASA

#EvolutionMitHumor
#BizarreMeisterwerke
#NaturStaunen
#BiologischeSuperkräfte
#AußenseiterDerNatur
#Kakapo
#Artenschutz
#Science
20/21

Two week-old kākāpō chicks in a nest. Credit: Andrew Digby

Two scraps of cotton wool. #kakapo chicks Pakiki-A3-2026 and Wendy-A1-2026 in Wendy's nest on Anchor Island. These are two of the youngest kākāpō chicks from this year. The oldest is about 6 weeks older and ~15 times heavier! #kakapo2026 #conservation #birds #wildlife

The Nest Stopped Behaving For months, everything important happened in a carefully engineered depression in the ground. The crater. Feeds happened there. Slee...

The crater is out.
The “naughty corner” is in.

The #kākāpō chicks have entered their small chaotic #parrot phase — and livecam chat is absolutely here for it.

#kakapo #Birds #WildlifeCam #conservation #kikorangi #NewZealand #blogging
shinekelly.blogspot.com/2026/04/the-...

The crater: carefully maintained, regularly renovated, clearly VERY important…

The chicks:
“yeah nah, we live out here now.”
🐣
#kākāpō #kakapo #conservation #RakiuraNestCam #chaos
www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDSW...

Heath Fledger (Heather-A3) and Nora-A2 wanna know if you’ve got any games on your phone 🥺👉👈

#kakapo #kakapocam #Kākāpō #AlwaysBeNaturing

Kākāpō Cam: Rakiura the kākāpō – 2026 nest YouTube video by Department of Conservation

You almost certainly need more kākāpō in your life. Nest cam link for the highly endangered New Zealand flightless nocturnal parrot… good for what ails you.
www.youtube.com/live/LDSWtyU...

#kakapo #rakiura

@shineyk.bsky.social mentioned that Heath Fledger (Heather-A3-2026) was returned to Rakiura’s nest on what would have been Heath Ledger’s 47th birthday. Shine also made a terrifying AI imagine to celebrate this. This led to me making this… I don’t have answers for you.
#kakapo #kakapocam #kākāpō

Heath Fledger (which is what we, in the #kākāpō nest cam community, call kākāpō chick Heather-A3-2026) was returned to Rakiura's nest...

...on HEATH LEDGER's BIRTHDAY!

Explain that, science.
#co-incidences #conservation #kakapo #wildlifecam #HeathLedger

Kākāpō Cam: Rakiura the kākāpō – 2026 nest YouTube video by Department of Conservation

For those not following the #kakapo nest cam: a new chick (Heather-A3) has been added to Rakiura’s nest tonight. We’re testing whether she can cope with two (bigger) mouths to feed again. #kakapo2026 #conservation
www.youtube.com/live/LDSWtyU...

#kakapo

Demographic boom confirmed.

Science = Hope Yesterday, in the gap that is currently almost constantly filled by a flightless parrot sitting quietly in a hollow under a tree raising...

A rocket launch and a flightless parrot have more in common than you’d think.

This post ended up somewhere unexpected.

#kākāpō #conservation #ArtemisII #hope #space #kakapo
shinekelly.blogspot.com/2026/04/scie...

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Highlights from my conversation about agentic engineering on Lenny's Podcast I was a guest on Lenny Rachitsky's podcast, in a new episode titled An AI state of the union: We've passed t...

#ai #kakapo #generative-ai #llms #podcast-appearances #coding-agents #agentic-engineering

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Highlights from my conversation about agentic engineering on Lenny's Podcast I was a guest on Lenny Rachitsky's podcast, in a new episode titled An AI state of the union: We've passed t...

#ai #kakapo #generative-ai #llms #pelican-riding-a-bicycle […]

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Highlights from my conversation about agentic engineering on Lenny's Podcast I was a guest on Lenny Rachitsky's podcast, in a new episode titled An AI state of the union: We've passed t...

#ai #kakapo #generative-ai #llms #pelican-riding-a-bicycle #podcast-appearances #coding-agents […]

Biggest Kākāpō Breeding Season episode of Kākāpō Files II DOC’s Kākāpō Recovery Programme says that the 2026 kākāpō breeding season is officially the biggest on record, and that all chicks have now hatched. At least 256 eggs were laid in 80 nests, of which a...

You won't find many kākāpō Easter eggs in the latest episode of the, Kākāpō Files ... because they've all hatched!

And by every measure, this is now officially the biggest breeding season on record.

#kakapo #conservation #birds

www.rnz.co.nz/podcast/kaka...

For anyone following Rakiura on Whenua Hou, there's a new link to the webcam. #Kakapo #nzwildlife
youtu.be/LDSWtyU6-Lg

The cam may be down, but the #kākāpō aren’t — and neither is the incredible mahi behind the scenes keeping them safe.
We’ll get our fix again soon. Until then… solidarity to everyone refreshing like it might help 😅 #conservation #kakapo #nestcam

First of April, nothing unusual on the kākāpō Cam. But Nora chick is 30 days old today!!!

#kakapo #kakapocam #Kākāpō #KitKat

Scientists open a million-year-old time capsule beneath New Zealand Deep inside a cave, scientists uncovered fossils from 16 species, including a newfound kākāpō ancestor that may have been able to fly. These remains reveal that New Zealand’s ecosystems were constantl...

#NewZealand: #extinction not just caused by #humans but also #volcanic #eruptions www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202... My take on #Darwin, #volcanoes and #evolution here nkozphoto.com/index.php/20... #science #birds #ornithology #kakapo #wildlife #animals #climate

As a foster mother 12 years ago, Rakiura encouraged Heather Two to leave the security of the underground nest for the first time on 17 May 2014. What a great Mum Rakiura was and is, still to this day. 💚💚 #Kakapo #nzwildlife
youtu.be/VfPiI2xdlVw

The youngest #kakapo chick on Pukenui/Anchor Island: Hanariki-A2, at 3 days old. It's a tiny 42g, but doing OK. Managed to keep it mostly dry on a very wet night. #kakapo2026 #conservation #birds

#kakapo chicks Ongaonga-A2 and A3 on Pukenui during a health check. These chicks are “chalk” priority, meaning that they only get checked a few times before fledging (~75 days). They’re doing well. #kakapo2026 #conservation #wildlife

“The ejaculation helmet was born.” Researchers built a “hat of condoms” in bid to save world’s heaviest parrot | Discover Wildlife A video of Sirocco the kākāpō attempting to mate with a human's head has been viewed millions of times – but he's since become a global icon

In an inventive bid to boost numbers of the worlds rarest, fattest, least able to fly parrot, a researcher built a sperm-collecting helmet and allowed the bird to mate with her head. Too early for April fools. True I promise 🧪🧪#wildlife #kakapo
www.discoverwildlife.com/animal-facts...

Rakiura takes meticulous care of her nest. However, that clump of pseudo tumbleweed may end up completely blocking any view of Nora while she remains a small chick. LOL. #Kakapo #nzwildlife

𝘒𝘪𝘢 𝘰𝘳𝘢 from New Zealand where Nora roused herself last night while Mum was away to peck at some dirt, take a poop, and to show us how much stronger her legs are getting. #Kakapo #Rakiura #nzwildlife

Huhū with her one month old chick Rakiura A2.
From Kākāpō Recovery FB
#birds #kakapo