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One of the few Alpine parrots, the intelligent and inquisitive Kea comes from New Zealand's South Island |
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| The normal camouflage colour of khaki/green covers a rainbow of hidden plumage colours and patterns . . . | ||
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including turquoise blue wing edges (the juvenile birds have the yellow eye-ring, cere and lower beak shown) . . . |
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| a red back (and underwing), . . . | ||
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| 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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| Link to Kaka |