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Author:

Montgomery, Sy.

Title:

Kakapo rescue : saving the world's strangest parrot / text by Sy Montgomery ; photographs by Nic Bishop.

Publisher:

Houghton Mifflin Books for Children,

Copyright Date:

c2010

Description:

73 p. : col. ill., col. maps ; 24 x 29 cm.

Subject:

Kakapo.
Birds--Protection.
Kakapo--Juvenile literature.
Kakapo--Conservation--Juvenile literature.

Other Authors:

Bishop, Nic, 1955- ill.

Notes:

Includes biblioographical references (p. 73) and index.

Summary:

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.

Series:

Scientists in the field

ISBN:

0618494170 (reinf. bdg.)
9780618494170 (reinf. bdg.)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)441151975

LCCN:

2009045250

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