Does a kakapo live in the forest?

Kakapo, for the most part, live on a fairly specialised diet. They eat certain fruits such as that of the rimu and kahikatea and the seeds of manuka and leatherwood. They eat the shoots of the shrub Dracophyllum. In the warmer months they drink rata nectar, while in winter they feed on sun orchid bulbs.

Generally ground-feeders, they eat fruits, seeds, roots, stems, leaves, nectar and fungi of other selected plants, and have been able to adapt to eating some introduced plants. However, although mostly herbivorous, they are actually classed as omnivores as insects commonly form part of their diet, and they have even been known to eat small reptiles.