Happy World Parrot Day, Sirocco Kākāpō! 💚🤎💚🦜

Photographer - Maddy Whittaker

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Wildlife in Care Photography:
Ostriches are #flightlessbirds and the heaviest in the world.

#Ostriches can run 72 kilometres an hour, maintaining this pace for up to 30 minutes.

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New Zealand’s endangered flightless birds are retreating to 'moa graveyards' – and it could save them from extinction | Discover Wildlife
https://www.discoverwildlife.com/animal-facts/birds/new-zealand-flightless-birds-retreating-to-moa-graveyards

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#NewZealand
#FlightlessBirds
#Birds
#Moa
#MoaGraveyards

New Zealand’s endangered flightless birds are retreating to 'moa graveyards' – and it could save them from extinction

Critically endangered flightless birds such as kākāpō and kiwi are seeking refuge in islands' remote mountains, just as their ancestors did before going extinct.

Ghosts of species past: shedding new light on the demise of NZ’s #moa can help other flightless birds https://theconversation.com/ghosts-of-species-past-shedding-new-light-on-the-demise-of-nzs-moa-can-help-other-flightless-birds-228362

Ecological dynamics of moa extinctions reveal convergent refugia that today harbour flightless #birds https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-024-02449-x

Scientists reconstructed patterns of extinction for 6 moa species... all collapsed and converged on the cold, isolated mountains... These happen to be the same sites where the last of #NewZealand’s #FlightlessBirds can be found today.

Ghosts of species past: shedding new light on the demise of NZ’s moa can help other flightless birds

Reconstructing the demise of New Zealand’s extinct moa can help conserve the country’s remaining flightless birds, which are retreating to the same final places - cold, isolated mountaintops.

The Conversation
Honk if You Love Laughs: 200+ Geese Jokes & Puns

Get ready to spread your wings and laugh your feathers off with these hilarious geese puns and jokes! From the best in the bird business, we've compiled a

PunnyPeak.com

The hidden rule for flight feathers and how it could reveal which #dinosaurs could fly
https://phys.org/news/2024-02-hidden-flight-feathers-reveal-dinosaurs.html

Functional constraints on the number and shape of flight feathers https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2306639121

"in addition to asymmetrical feathers, all the flighted #birds had between nine and 11 primary #feathers. In #FlightlessBirds, the number varies widely— #penguins have more than 40, while #emus have none. It's a deceptively simple rule that's seemingly gone unnoticed by #scientists."

The hidden rule for flight feathers and how it could reveal which dinosaurs could fly

Birds can fly—at least, most of them can. Flightless birds like penguins and ostriches have evolved lifestyles that don't require flight. However, there's a lot that scientists don't know about how the wings and feathers of flightless birds differ from their airborne cousins.

Phys.org
Looking for a nifty #colouringBook that will teach you about #NewZealand #FlightlessBirds and bad flyers? Look no further!
https://www.amazon.com/Bad-Flyers-Zealand-Colouring-Book/dp/0473671980
Amazon.com

Our curious and cheeky weka look a bit like kiwis but hang out in the garden in the early morning and late afternoon. This one was walking around our chairs and checking that the beer bottle tops were not food #KawauKritter #Kawau #NZBirds #FlightlessBirds