New Zealand's charismatic kea - and 2017's Bird of the Year - has just been reclassified to "endangered" by global conservation group BirdLife International. Photo / File New Zealand's charismatic ...

East Coast MP Kiri Allan is backing the cheeky kea for the high-profile Bird of the Year title. Online voting for the Forest and Bird of the Year/Te Manu Rongonui o Te Tau 2021 started on Monday.

Over summer many holiday trampers will get close up views of New Zealand’s most charismatic bird, the kea. However a University of Canterbury lecturer, Dr Ximena Nelson, said plants in New ...

Being called "bird-brained" isn't much of an insult when you're being compared to the highly intelligent Kiwi parrot, the kea. Kea are the first animals outside the great apes to show they ...

The kea has overcome vote-rigging and ... It also resulted in NZ$10,000 ($,000, £5,255) in donations to Forest and Bird, external.

It is a wake-up call to take action, says Forest & Bird's chief conservation adviser, Kevin Hackwell. "Every year, kea nests are destroyed by introduced predators like rats, stoats, possums ...

New Zealand's cheekiest bird could be in trouble as conservationists raise a red flag over declining kea numbers ... birds.IAIN MCGREGOR / FAIRFAX NZ "When people go through Arthur's Pass they ...

The pūteketeke has been crowned New Zealand's Bird of the Century after US talk ... Rounding out the top five were the kea, kākāpō and the fantail. It is not the first time the competition ...

The Department of Conservation (DoC), Downers NZ, Canterbury University and the Kea Conversation Trust have teamed up to bring the native bird a play area. It's hoped the area, kitted out with ...

The kea has overcome vote-rigging and ... It also resulted in NZ$10,000 ($,000, £5,255) in donations to Forest and Bird, external.