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December 2011

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December 2011

Kea on Cascade Saddle with Mt Aspiring beyond. Photo: Shaun Barnett/Black Robin Photography
Three places to find this smart, playful and often fiendish alpine parrot Explorer Charlie Douglas wrote of kea: ‘For curiosity and impudence the kea takes the record among all the feathered creation…’ and described their cry as ‘the wail of a lost spirit.’ There must be something of the maverick trickster in kea that appeals […]
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