Kākāpō, the world's fattest parrot, named New Zealand's bird of the year for 2020

‘Mighty moss chicken’ brought back from brink of extinction is the first two-time winner

It can’t fly and it hides during the day but a critically endangered large parrot is back in the limelight having been named New Zealand’s bird of the year for an unprecedented second time.

The green and fawn kākāpō – the world’s heaviest, longest-living parrot – first won in 2008. After conservation efforts, the population of this large parrot has risen from 50 during the 1990s to 213 now.

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