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Montgomery, Sy.
Kakapo rescue :
saving the world's strangest parrot /
text by Sy Montgomery ; photographs by Nic Bishop.
Saving the world's strangest parrot.
Boston :
Houghton Mifflin Books for Children,
2010.
74 p. :
col. illus., col. map ;
24 x 29 cm.
Scientists in the field
Includes index.
Bibliography: p. 73.
On remote Codfish Island off the southern coast of New Zealand live the last 91 kakapo parrots on earth. Originally this bird numbered in the millions before humans brought predators to the islands. Now on the isolated island refuge, a team of scientists is trying to restore the kakapo population.
20110530.
Kakapo.
Parrots.
Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Medal
Winner.
Scientists in the field.
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