Kakapo Rescue, Sy Montgomery
Kakapo Rescue, Sy Montgomery
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Kakapo Rescue
Saving the World's Strangest Parrot

Author: Sy Montgomery

Narrator: Andrea Gallo

Unabridged: 2 hr 14 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 06/13/2014

Categories: Children's Fiction

Synopsis

On remote Codfish Island off the southern coast of New Zealand live the last ninety-one kakapo parrots on earth. These trusting, flightless, and beautiful birds-the largest and most unusual parrots on earth-have suffered devastating population loss. Now, on an island refuge with the last of the species, New Zealand's National Kakapo Recovery Team is working to restore the kakapo population. With the help of fourteen humans who share a single hut and a passion for saving these odd ground-dwelling birds, the kakapo are making a comeback in New Zealand. Follow intrepid animal lovers Sy Montgomery and Nic Bishop on a ten-day excursion to witness the exciting events in the life of the kakapo.

About Sy Montgomery

Sy Montgomery has been chased by an angry silverback gorilla in Zaire and swum with piranhas and pink dolphins in the Amazon. To research her books, films, and articles, she has worked in a pit swarming with 18,000 snakes in Canada and been hunted by a tiger in India. She has hiked the Altai Mountains of Mongolia's Gobi desert in search of snow leopards and penetrated the cloud forests of Papua New Guinea to radio collar tree kangaroos. No place is too far to go to bring animals' true stories to adults and children around the world.
Sy is the author is the nationally bestselling author of over fifteen nonfiction books, including Temple Grandin, Birdology, and Spell of the Tiger. She writes for print as well as broadcast in an effort to reach as wide an audience as possible at what she considers a critical turning point in human history.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Betsy on October 08, 2010

One Sentence Review: Not only does this make the greatest nonfiction booktalk of all time ("It's about gigantic parrots that can't fly and smell like honey!!") but the storytelling and the photography really set this one apart from the pack.......more

Goodreads review by Michele on July 21, 2013

Kakapo Rescue: Saving the World’s Strangest Parrot Robert F. Sibert Medal Winner 2011 By Sy Montgomery Audience: intermediate Genre: nonfiction Absolutely stunning photographs accompany this detailed documentary of the journey a group of researchers take to rescue the kakapos. Truly an adventure- I would......more

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