kakapos are parrots. they also have the name old night birds because they move at night. they are green and yellow, big and fat. the biggest birds are four kilograms. in a quiet place, kakapos can live for sixty years. they cannot live with people or other animals and they do not have many babies. they also leave their babies for hours at night, without protection. they are different from most birds because they cannot fly. in 1995 there were only fifty kakapos in the world, all of them in new zealand. they were in danger from cats and other animals. new zealand scientists looked for the birds for a long time. when they found them , they took them away to quiet places and protected them there. in these quiet places, kakapos could make new homes and live freely. in 2001, twenty of them had babies. the number of kakapos is going up, but there are only eighty-six in the world today.