Strigops

Strigops
Temporal range: Pleistocene - Recent
Kākāpō (Strigops habroptilus)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Psittaciformes
Family: Strigopidae
Genus: Strigops
G.R. Gray, 1845
Species

Strigops is a genus of New Zealand parrots that contains two species, an extant species, the kākāpō (Strigops habroptilus) and the fossil species Strigops insulaborealis from the early Pleistocene of New Zealand.