Format:
Book
Title:
Kakapo rescue : saving the world's strangest parrot / text by Sy Montgomery ; photographs by Nic Bishop.
Author:
Montgomery, Sy.
Call Number:
j639.97871 Montgome
Publisher, Date:
Boston : Houghton Mifflin Books for Children, c2010.
Description:
73 p. : col. ill., col. maps ; 24 x 29 cm.
Summary:
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.
Series:
Scientists in the field
Scientists in the field.
Subjects:
Kakapo.
Birds -- Protection.
Kakapo -- Juvenile literature.
Kakapo -- Conservation -- Juvenile literature.
Robert F. Sibert Medal.
Other Author:
Bishop, Nic, 1955-
ISBN:
9780618494170 (reinf. bdg.)
0618494170 (reinf. bdg.)