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Sunday, March 9, 2014

BABY PARROT HATCHES FROM CRUSHED EGG THAT WAS GLUED BACK TOGETHER

A rare New Zealand parrot has been hatched from a crushed egg that was put back together using sticky tape and glue. 
 
Conservation workers at the Kakapo Recovery Centre on Codfish Island, New Zealand, found the egg with its shell in pieces inside the nest of its mother, Lisa, but the membrane underneath was still intact. After painstakingly repairing the shell, and a long wait, the Kakapo parrot chick beat the odds to enter the world.  The tiny chick has been named Lisa One, for now, until the sex has been determined.  It is the first Kakapo to be born in New Zealand since 2011, and brings the total population of the endangered bird species to 125.
 
Read more and see pictures of Lisa the baby parrot.
 
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