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@digs.bsky.social

Lots of ripe rimu fruit appearing on the trees on Pukenui/Anchor. This is the food driving the current biggest #kakapo breeding season on record: ripe fruit is the main diet of kākāpō chicks, and a record rimu crop is the reason why the chicks are growing well. #conservation #kakapo2026 #birds

25/3/26, 11:04 am44 reposts231 likes

jorosiebuffie.bsky.social

@jorosiebuffie.bsky.social

Do they typically go for the fruit still on the branches, or do they go for the ones that have fallen?

Jan Derk Stegeman

@digitaldutch.com

Now I suddenly wonder: How does rimu fruit taste?

@delwynd.bsky.social

They look similar to Totara berries which are sweet but have a slightly methylated spirits after taste.🤷

stephenmid.bsky.social

@stephenmid.bsky.social

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@nucifraga.bsky.social

Very nice! But the #IAmABotanist in me wants to say, those are of course conifer cones, not fruit 😁

@cat-appreciator.bsky.social

Kākāpō factory go brrr