NZ Native Bird Week: The wonders of the Kakapo

NZ Native Bird Week: The wonders of the Kakapo

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
The fact of the day, day day day day.

Speaker 2 (00:04):
Yeah, do do do do do do do do do
do do do do do do do do doo doo
doo doo dooooo. It's Native bird week here at fact
of the day, and today we're covering my new favorite.

Speaker 1 (00:21):
Okay, the cuck of boar.

Speaker 2 (00:22):
Oh yeah, one recently on Anchor Island, w down the
south of the South Island videos. Yeah, those are they
going to go up soon? What the hell hell of
an experience out of a trip and getting to see
a bird when there's only two hundred and forty six
it was two hundred and forty seven.

Speaker 1 (00:39):
Unfortunately, this week there was a death.

Speaker 2 (00:40):
Ohsn'tly suspicious to you would just left the island and
one died and.

Speaker 1 (00:45):
When you were holding one? No, I wasn't in the
chicken coop. I never held one. There was a rule
especially chicken at you like some people call the moss
chickens like they're covered with a moss. Yeah, but no,
apparently they need to be humping more so.

Speaker 2 (01:00):
Apparently dude to their numbers being so low when the
cockoo recovery started and there's not a huge genetic diversity.

Speaker 1 (01:10):
Oh okay, it says to us, there's a bitter So
that's why.

Speaker 2 (01:14):
Now everything they've all got genomic testing, genomic testing, and
they know where everybody's from. And then you get it needed.
There's a guy with a bit of fieldland in there,
and they need a bit more fieldland. They need a
bit more fieldland. Cockaw.

Speaker 1 (01:25):
So only certain people can hunt with certain people, only
certain birds, but all the same. It's only on the
island one. But they can't just like let them roam
free and just do it. I don't think so.

Speaker 2 (01:40):
They will put specific birds and they like we've talked
about the monogamy of the key with this week, ye
not and the fantaisl not these guys not.

Speaker 1 (01:49):
These guys not monogamous.

Speaker 2 (01:50):
They build a little bowl and the dirt, the males
they clear out a bowl and then they just do
a dance in the bowl and they do theirs. Yeah,
and the lady come over the nice bowl, Nice bowl, bro,
And he's like, you think it looks good from up there?

Speaker 1 (02:06):
What it looks like? She comes and he's doing the dance.
Does she do the dance too?

Speaker 2 (02:12):
Nah?

Speaker 1 (02:13):
She watches them just pretty much just puts it up,
have it. Yeah, I'm watching kind of like watching auditions
on like X Factor. Yeah, and she leaves, Yeah, she's done.
Then they have No, she's not done. Never in the
game for that. She was never in the game for that.

Speaker 2 (02:31):
So I thought i'd hit you with some of the
facts about Yeah, sure, the world's only flightless parrot.

Speaker 1 (02:38):
Yeah, only, world's only flightless parrot.

Speaker 2 (02:41):
Also the world's biggest parrot on average, four hundred grams
heavier than the next one, which is those big blue
McCall look. Oh yeah, dragrams heavier. My boy doesn't fly.
Apparently stopped flying because the halst eagle. You talked about
the half eggle, And I tell you what, tomorrow, we're
hitting the half eagle hard. That's our final bird, even
though it's extinct. I know it's extinct, but I love it.
If those things are still around, would have to God,

(03:05):
there'll be some fun a few more one hundred years
and then they could have had delicious high country.

Speaker 1 (03:11):
Sheep to eat.

Speaker 2 (03:12):
Yeah, as soon as the moor was gone pastig. Anyway,
we'll talk more about him tomorrow. Cucka Port today also
believed to be one of the longest living birds hand
up to.

Speaker 1 (03:22):
Ninety years old. Oh my old dude, and they don't
start breeding.

Speaker 2 (03:26):
Males don't start breeding until they're about four, and the
females don't start breeding till they're about six. Right, Yeah,
and the male ladies because the males get a bit
horny or a bit earlier. There's this island just off Anker.
Islmorrow went with, I'll take the horny males and they
just like have a bachelor's pad out there.

Speaker 1 (03:39):
Oh okay, they're a bit raucous if they live it
on therecked up, And I want to say that.

Speaker 2 (03:44):
The final little fact about cucko poor when you favorite,
is that it can store because it's given up flying,
so it doesn't need to constantly be eating to fly
around because that's a lot of energy taken. It can
store and it's one of the only birds to do.
It store a lot of body fat.

Speaker 1 (04:01):
They can eat.

Speaker 2 (04:02):
They eat light, and they don't burn it all by
flying because they're just poddling around, and so they put
on a lot of body fat. And the heaviest one
that sounds like an excuse, doesn't.

Speaker 1 (04:14):
I can't fly. Have you tried anyway more remo than me?

Speaker 2 (04:22):
I think numb. So today's fact of the day is
the Cuckapow is the world's biggest parrot. It's the world's
only flightless parrot, and it's a cute little fatty