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A kea that suffered a leg fracture after being shot has made an almost complete recovery, and vets have started plans for him head back home to the South Island. The injured bird was discovered with a ...
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.
NZ mountain plants may depend on declining kea, UC lecturer says November 1, 2012 Over summer many holiday trampers will get close up views of New Zealand’s most charismatic bird, the kea.
The kea has overcome vote-rigging and online trolling to be named New Zealand's Bird of the Year after two weeks of heated campaigning. While last month's New Zealand election means Jacinda Arden ...
Media release. 24 July 2012. School to help kea conservation. A Christchurch School and student will take action to help conserve kea to make amends for actions that led to the death of a bird at ...
The kea bird, New Zealand’s native parrot, makes other keas laugh with a so-called “play call,” scientists reported in a new study. Credit: ullstein bild. Credit: ullstein bild.