Photo: Kākāpō Recovery Programme DOC

Conservation lovers glued to a black and white livestream from a remote island off the coast of New Zealand on Sunday can safely claim to be the only people to have seen a critically endangered kākāpō lay an egg in real time.

The images beamed to the world from a large cavity beneath a rātā tree on Whenua Hou/Codfish Island showed 23-year-old Rakiura laying her second egg of the season, the product of a dalliance with Kōmaru a week earlier.

Photo: SUPPLIED/DOC

The pair are among just 236 of the flightless parrots alive.

More than than 20,000 people have tuned in to watch Rakiura

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