Kakapo Rescue: Saving the World’s Strangest Parrot

Series Scientists in the Field By Sy Montgomery

Illustrators Photographs by Nic Bishop Publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Imprint Houghton Mifflin ISBN

9780618494170

Awards and Honors 2011 Sibert Award; 2011 ALA Notable Children’s Books, Middle Readers; 2011 NCTE Orbis Pictus Recommended; 2011 Top 10 Books for Youth, Environment; Booklist 2010 Editor’s Choice, Books for Youth, Nonfiction, Middle Readers; Booklist Lasting Connections of 2010, Science; Booklist 2010 Top 10 Books for Youth, Sci-Tech; Horn Book ; Outstanding Science Trade Books for Students K-12: 2011Fanfare, Best Books of 2010, Nonfiction; Kirkus Reviews 2010 Best Children’s Books; BCCB Blue Ribbon 2010, Nonfiction

Kakapo Rescue: Saving the World’s Strangest Parrot

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When Sy Montgomery and Nic Bishop arrived at Codfish Island, a remote island off New Zealand, eighty-six known kakapo remained in the world. But thanks to a dedicated team of scientists and volunteers working to save these unusual birds, within a few months after Montgomery and Bishop's visit, the kakapo population had risen to ninety-one. Postscript. Information on how to donate to the scientists' efforts. Selected bibliography. Index. Illustrated map and full-color photographs.

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