Maori do not eat kakapo any longer, as this flightless parrot is critically endangered. There are around 130 adults left in 2014, and these birds have been moved to offshore islands for their protection, where they are monitored. Kakapo numbers have suffered a huge decline since the arrival of the first people in New Zealand, and they are friendly and sociable birds, making them easy game for hunters. They were certainly eaten by the Maori.
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