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Kakapo rescue : saving the world's strangest parrot / text by Sy Montgomery ; photographs by Nic Bishop. |
| Authors: | Montgomery, Sy. |
| Call number: | j639.97871 MON |
| Publisher: | Boston : Houghton Mifflin Books for Children, c2010. |
| Publication date: | c2010. |
| Subject: |
Kakapo -- Juvenile literature.
Kakapo -- Conservation -- Juvenile literature. |
| Series title: | Scientists in the field. |
| Title: | Kakapo rescue : saving the world's strangest parrot / text by Sy Montgomery ; photographs by Nic Bishop. |
| Physical description: | 73 p. : col. ill., col. maps ; 24 x 29 cm. |
| Summary note: | 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. |
| Biography note: | Includes biblioographical references (p. 73) and index. |
| Awards note: | Young Hoosier Book Award, 2012-2013, 4-6 Nominee. |
| Added author: | Bishop, Nic, 1955- ill. |
| ISBN: | 9780618494170 (reinf. bdg.) 0618494170 (reinf. bdg.) |
| LCCN: | 2009045250 |
| Url for this record: | http://sherloc.imcpl.org/?itemid=|library/marc/dynix|1247198 |
| Bib No.: | 1247198 |