A campaign to discourage New Zealand’s charismatic mountain parrot, the kea, from hanging out at a tourist hotspot appears to ...

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But the study authors suspect its diet might also have included meat. Other parrots, like the kea in New Zealand, have similarly carnivorous tendencies. Keas have been known to dive-bomb ...

The number of Kea - New Zealand's nationally endangered mountain parrot - is growing in numbers in Aoraki/Mount Cook National Park. The average flock size in the Malte Brun area in 2024 was twice that ...

they also eat other birds. They have no problem breaking into nests, and gobbling any chicks they can find. Sheep were first brought into kea territory when Europeans settled in New Zealand in the ...