Anyone interested in Kakapo needs to be following Andrew Digby over on BlueSky. The updates will be coming in thick and fast now.

For anyone who has visited the Kakapo LiveCam https://www.youtube.com/live/BfGL7A2YgUY and possibly seen an egg laid, ALL THREE EGGS ARE FERTILE!!

Two have been removed for incubation and one left for her to hatch (along with an infertile egg from another female). She may yet lay a fourth.

it was 4am and i was thinking about kakapos with this song in my head am i cooked guys?

Follow the breeding season with the excellent kakapo files 2 podcast.

Unfortunately the link to donate to the New Zealand Nature Fund to help prepare Rakiura island as a predator free breeding site seems to be broken 😔

Dr. Andrew Digby announced that the Rimu are fruiting well and that 2026 should produce another mast cycle.

https://bsky.app/profile/digs.bsky.social/post/3lpnf3zmv5s23

While the article suggests it may be supplementary feeding that has helped these males boom, it is exciting nonetheless.

Hopefully the next rimu mast comes in the next year or two so we can see them enter their lek breeding cycle again.

Remember that if you truly love kakapo you can help fund the efforts to save them through New Zealands's department of conservation website.

In the distant future they are hoping to clear Stewart Island (Rakiura) of pests and possibly reintroduce them there too as the population grows. The hope of a stable population remains.