Kakapo rescue : saving the world's strangest parrot
(2010)

Nonfiction

Book

Call Numbers:
J/598.71/MONTGOMERY,S

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Kids' Nonfiction J/598.71/MONTGOMERY,S Due: 4/22/2024

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PUBLISHED
Boston : Houghton Mifflin Books for Children, [2010]
©2010
DESCRIPTION

74 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 24 x 29 cm

ISBN/ISSN
9780618494170 (reinf. bdg.), 0618494170 (reinf. bdg.)
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES

Winner of the 2011 Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Award

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

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