Hello zooforum, I just registered today. My name is Isidro and I live in Spain. I'm not a zookeeper but I love animals and many times I cared animals from other people, from farm animals to raptors or parrots. The most interesting animals for me are the birds, and although I don't have any living bird now I keep their feathers, this is my greatest hobby and I hope that here I maybe make contacts between zoo staff for help to enlarge my collection. Best wishes, Isidro
welcome to Zoochat Kakapo. I have a few feathers myself, including some from kakapo (normal green feathers, and yellow ones from a lutino from the 19th century) -- but, no, I can't send you any
Thanks Chlidonias and Snowleopard for the welcome. Chlidonias, you shicked me very much! How can you get these extremely rare feathers? It's my biggest golden dream since child to have one feather of this species. I found in Flickr photocommunity a photo of kakapo feathers: [ame="http://www.flickr.com/photos/mocean/110990331/"]kakapo / night parrot on Flickr - Photo Sharing![/ame] and I inmediately contacted the author of the photo but she said me that her aren't the owner of these, it was from a NZ artist sith permission from have native feathers. It's an impossible dream I know... Much more shocked for know that can be exist LUTINO KAKAPO?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?! Do you have a photo of it???? Could be a strange creature!!!! Regards, Isidro
Hmmm, I see that the photo appears directly linked... and as a video! For see the photo click in the link above and not in the black square.
I used to work in a museum and I was allowed to take a few loose feathers from the cabinets that the mounted birds were stored in. I was looking on the internet for the picture of the yellow kakapo but couldn't find it. It was painted by J.G. Keulemans from a specimen in Walter Buller's collection that was caught by the Bradshaw brothers at Cromarty, Preservation Inlet in 1898 (and its probably exactly the same specimen my feathers came from, as I doubt there could be many lutino kakapo around!). The painting is reproduced in David Butler's 1989 book "Quest For The Kakapo".
