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… Kea antics Kea are either loved for their elaborate antics or disliked … Kea and people …
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Part of story: Birds of mountains and open country
… the air is deeply evocative of New Zealand’s Southern Alps. Kea ( Nestor notabilis ) are parrots that have adapted to … the harsh conditions in which they live. Māori encountered kea while crossing the Southern Alps in search of pounamu … Kea – the mountain parrot …
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Part of story: Birds of mountains and open country
… disease (a stock disease due to ragwort poisoning). The kea The kea, a native mountain parrot, often attacked sheep, pecking … from its back). People were employed to hunt and kill keas, using a shotgun modified for the purpose, known as a …
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Part of story: Rural language
… New Zealand’s alpine parrot, the kea, is well known for its comical and destructive antics, …
Type: Story Front
… bird of the forest. It is related to the alpine parrot, the kea ( Nestor notabilis ). In 1877 ornithologist Walter … predators. Parrots apart New Zealand’s native parrots – the kea, kākā and kākāpō – may have evolved separately from … supercontinent, around 85 million years ago. Kākā and kea belong to an endemic subfamily, Nestorinae. …
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Part of story: Large forest birds
… mammals, reptiles, land invertebrates and vascular plants. Kea culled Between 1860 and 1970, at least 150,000 kea (alpine parrots) were killed. This figure is based on a …
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Part of story: Threatened species
… so the plants did not evolve to produce colourful flowers. Kea and rock wrens The comic and colourful native kea ( Nestor notabilis ) is the world’s only mountain …
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Part of story: Mountains
… He was very friendly with another influential chief, Te Kea, and his son, Te Aho, who belonged to Ngāti Rongo. Paiterangi of Ngāti Rongo decided to kill Te Kea because of some previous offence. However, he was killed by Te Kea and his body buried in a swamp. Ngāti Rongo sent a …
Type: Biography
… kākāriki, eating greedily in the morning before working. Kea The name of this mountain parrot sounds like its call – … included in the Māori diet. The Waitaha tribe believed that kea, along with the kāhu (harrier) and ruru (morepork), were …
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Part of story: Ngā manu – birds
… hedge sparrows and brown creepers nest in subalpine shrubs. Kea feed on fruit and insects in subalpine scrub. A number …
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Part of story: Shrublands
… whitehead, in the same genus, occurs only in the north. The kea (a mountain parrot) lives only in the South Island, …
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Part of story: Birdwatching
… Australia to become established. Birds of open country The kea, an alpine parrot, is the best-known bird of the New …
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Part of story: Birds of mountains and open country
… and parakeets live on the subantarctic islands, and the kea is an alpine parrot. New Zealand lizards are unusual in …
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Part of story: Evolution of plants and animals
… exclusively in the mountains: the South Island’s large kea parrot, a native pipit and a rare, tiny rock wren which, …
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Part of story: Native plants and animals – overview
… eat insects, worms, snails, frogs, lizards or small fish. Kea ( Nestor notabilis ), native mountain parrots, sometimes …
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Part of story: Birds of prey
… were also many kiwi and kākāpō feathers, and a few from kea and pigeons. Guthrie-Smith noted that the nest was fresh …
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Part of story: Birds of mountains and open country
… the rest of the world, are mainly plain green, although the kea ( Nestor notabilis ) and kākā ( Nestor meridionalis ) …
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Part of story: Land birds – overview
… Alpine birds Kea, the mountain parrots of the South Island high country, …
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Part of story: Birdwatching
… threatened rock wren, and the playful mountain parrot, the kea. There are also introduced species – white-tailed and …
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Part of story: National parks
… Zealand’s mountains. Examples are the parrot known as the kea ( Nestor notabilis ) and cicadas. New Zealand’s lizards …
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Part of story: Ecoregions