How to Use kakapo in a Sentence

kakapo

noun
  • By 1974, no kakapo were known to exist.
    — Charlotte Graham-McLay, Los Angeles Times, 24 Feb. 2026
  • By 1974, no kakapo were known to exist.
    — ABC News, 23 Feb. 2026
  • The deep booms, which on clear nights can be heard across the forest, attract female kakapo to the bowls.
    — Charlotte Graham-McLay, Los Angeles Times, 24 Feb. 2026
  • The deep booms, which on clear nights can be heard across the forest, attract female kakapo to the bowls.
    — ABC News, 23 Feb. 2026
  • Perhaps the only thing stranger than the kakapo is the lengths to which New Zealanders have gone to save it.
    — ABC News, 23 Feb. 2026
  • The kakapo kept her distance while the switch was made but quickly returned to the nest, seemingly unperturbed.
    — Charlotte Graham-McLay, Los Angeles Times, 24 Feb. 2026
  • The kakapo kept her distance while the switch was made but quickly returned to the nest, seemingly unperturbed.
    — ABC News, 23 Feb. 2026
  • Smelly parrots the size of small cats The kakapo is a majestic creature that can live for 60 to 80 years.
    — Charlotte Graham-McLay, Los Angeles Times, 24 Feb. 2026
  • The kakapo is too heavy, too slow and, frankly, too delicious to survive around predators, and takes a shamelessly relaxed approach to reproduction.
    — Charlotte Graham-McLay, Los Angeles Times, 24 Feb. 2026
  • The kakapo is too heavy, too slow and, frankly, too delicious to survive around predators, and takes a shamelessly relaxed approach to reproduction.
    — ABC News, 23 Feb. 2026
  • Native birds are beloved in New Zealand Perhaps the only thing stranger than the kakapo is the lengths to which New Zealanders have gone to save it.
    — Charlotte Graham-McLay, Los Angeles Times, 24 Feb. 2026
  • The introduction of rats, dogs, cats and stoats, as well as hunting by people and destruction of native forest habitats, drove species of the country’s flourishing flightless birds — the kakapo among them — to near or complete extinction.
    — Charlotte Graham-McLay, Los Angeles Times, 24 Feb. 2026
  • The introduction of rats, dogs, cats and stoats, as well as hunting by people and destruction of native forest habitats, drove species of the country’s flourishing flightless birds — the kakapo among them — to near or complete extinction.
    — ABC News, 23 Feb. 2026

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