Kea

Nestor notabilis


 

Kea New Zealand Kea

One of the few Alpine parrots, the intelligent and inquisitive Kea comes from New Zealand's South Island
Kea Kea
   
Kea camouflage Kea  
The normal camouflage colour of khaki/green covers a rainbow of hidden plumage colours and patterns . . .  
Kea blue wings Kea blue wings Kea blue wings

including turquoise blue wing edges (the juvenile birds have the yellow eye-ring, cere and lower beak shown) . . .
Kea red back Kea red back Kea red back
a red back (and underwing), . . . 
Kea yellow hawk stripes Kea yellow hawk stripes Kea yellow hawk stripes
and yellow striped wing feathers suggesting hawk ancestry (also, unusually for parrots, it eats carrion and even live bird/mammal prey as well as fruit/vegetation).
     
     
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