At the celebration following, each table will be adorned with the photo and name of one of the individual kakapo who remain. What better way to celebrate than to share with others the joy and power of helping to save a species? Aaron created a beautiful flier on the kakapo which he has included in every invitation to the ceremony. This important Jewish coming-of-age ceremony celebrates a boy’s transformation to manhood. Listen to Sy Montgomery talk about how she came to write Kakapo Rescue: Saving the World’s Strangest ParrotĪaron Friedman of Wilton, Connecticut is so enchanted by the endangered kakapo that he’s made the species and its plight the theme of his Bar Mitzvah.
By turns emotional, fascinating, dangerous, and hilarious, Montgomery’s and Bishop’s sensitive and scientific chronicle explores all there is to know about these “winged weirdos.” With the help of fourteen humans who share a single hut and a passion for saving these odd, ground-dwelling birds, the kakapo are making a comeback in New Zealand.įollow intrepid animal lovers Sy Montgomery and Nic Bishop on a ten-day excursion to witness the exciting events in the life of the kakapo. Once on the island, there is plenty of hard work for everyone and every bird: special food to prepare and deliver, radio-wave tracking devices to install, live video to monitor, and, of course, precious baby kakapo to hatch and feed. No human can visit the habitat on Codfish without first disinfecting all of their belongings, and flying across stormy seas to land on a tiny beach. Now, isolated on an island refuge with the last of the species, New Zealand’s National Kakapo Recovery Team is working to restore the kakapo population and protect it from exposure to anything that might threaten its fragile balance.
As their habitat became invaded by predators introduced by humans, the kakapo population on mainland New Zealand decreased from uncounted millions in the mid-nineteenth century to near extinction by 1950. These trusting, flightless, and beautiful birds-the largest and most unusual parrots on earth-have suffered devastating population loss.
On remote Codfish Island off the southern coast of New Zealand live the last ninety-one kakapo parrots on earth.
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