I chose to adopt the yellow-crowned kakariki, commonly known as the Kakariki.
Features: The bird looks like a kakariki with a yellow crown. Also a red band in front of and behind the eye in the red-crowned does not extend behind the eye as the Red-crowned kakariki does.
Habitat/distribution: Kakarikis inhabit in the North & South Islands and is slowly making their way to the Stewart Island. They are also high forest dwellers especially in old growth beech and podocarp forests.
Principal threats:
- Loss of habitats
- Introduced predators such as stoats and ship rats
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Possums:
I think New Zealand made a good choice to try and get rid of the possums because they are putting our native birds in danger and causing them to decrease in population. However, I think that we shouldn't kill the possums but we should trap them and maybe take them away from places where the native birds live and put them in caged areas, where they can still eat and not kill any birds.
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