Crossword-Solution: KAKAPO
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Kakapo | n. | A singular nocturnal parrot (Strigops habroptilus), native of New Zealand. It lives in holes during the day, but is active at night. It resembles an owl in its colors and general appearance. It has large wings, but can fly only a short distance. Called also owl parrot, night parrot, and night kaka. |
We have 7 clues for the answer “KAKAPO”
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| Endangered New Zealand bird that sometimes tries to mate with scientists' heads (hence why scientists studying them wear "ejaculation helmets" to collect their semen for conservation efforts) | 1 answer |
| owl parrot | 1 answer |
| New Zealand parrot | 3 answers |
| Flightless bird | 24 answers |
| New Zealand bird | 29 answers |
| Parrot | 57 answers |
| "Bird" | 138 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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Sentences with KAKAPO (5)
There is a green ground parrot too, called the kakapo, a night bird, and hardly ever found on the eastern side of the island.
But for the _kakapo_, the green ground-parrot who lived in a hollow _rata_ tree and looked like a bunch of maiden-hair fern, he had great respect.
STRIGOPS, str[=i]'gops, _n._ a genus containing the kakapo or nocturnal New Zealand parrot, the owl-parrots.
The kakapo is about the size of a raven, of a green or brownish-green colour, thickly freckled and irregularly barred with dark brown, and dashed here and there with longitudinal stripes of light yellow.
The New Zealand kakapo or ground parrot, to take one instance, hides in any hole it finds and lays its eggs there without any preparation; the kingfisher, again, digs out a hole in the ground, or occupies one that it finds.
Quotes with KAKAPO (2)
In every remote corner of the world there are people like Carl Jones and Don Merton who have devoted their lives to saving threatened species. Very often, their determination is all that stands between an endangered species and extinction. But why do they bother? Does it really matter if the Yangtze river dolphin, or the kakapo, or the northern white rhino, or any other species live on only in scientists' notebooks? Well, yes, it does. Every animal and plant is an integral pa…
If naturalists go to heaven (about which there is considerable ecclesiastical doubt), I hope that I will be furnished with a troop of kakapo to amuse me in the evening instead of television.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NYT, Slate.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (1993–2024).