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Strigops; Temporal range: Pleistocene–Recent
	Kākāpō (Strigops habroptilus)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Psittaciformes
Family:	Strigopidae
Genus:	Strigops; G.R. Gray, 1845
Species
	Strigops habroptilus Gray, 1845; †Strigops insulaborealis; Worthy et al., 2026;

Strigops is a genus of New Zealand parrots that contains two species, an extant species, the kākāpō (Strigops habroptilus) and the fossil species Strigops insulaborealis from the early Pleistocene of New Zealand.^[1]

References

1 2 Worthy, T. H.; Scofield, R. P.; Suresh, S.; Barker, S. J.; Wilson, C. J. N.; Williams, P. W.; Baker, J. A. (2026). "The first Early Pleistocene (ca 1 Ma) fossil terrestrial vertebrate fauna from a cave in New Zealand reveals substantial avifaunal turnover in the last million years". Alcheringa: An Australasian Journal of Palaeontology. doi:10.1080/03115518.2025.2605684.

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Strigops Temporal range: Pleistocene–Recent

Kākāpō (Strigops habroptilus)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Psittaciformes
Family:	Strigopidae
Genus:	Strigops G.R. Gray, 1845
Species
Strigops habroptilus Gray, 1845 †Strigops insulaborealis Worthy et al., 2026^[1]