And then there were these guys almost/probably on the endangered list, but we have seen one or two as we've walked in the bush ....they are the North Island cousin of the Kea. (Kea's aren't endangered and are probably one of the best known parrots in NZ. They are the bane of car-owning skiers and trampers because they love the rubber on windscreens and windscreen wipers...but they are also the clowns in every camp ground, car park and picnic spot around the southern alps. )
This northern cousin though the Kaka is ...he's browner, shyer maybe only a little bit...and a bush not an alpine parrot. At the Santuary they feed them to keep an eye on the birds that have been released back into the wild, andto stop them starving over winter.
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