FEATHERED FRIENDS

New Zealand: Earth’s Mythical Islands, 9pm, BBC2

OF ALL the flightless birds that have roamed New Zealand over the centuries (and there have been many), the kakapo (pictured), a large, endangered green parrot, is surely the most charismatic —

none more so than Sirocco, a 19-year-old male ‘conservation icon’ and a highlight of this final instalment.