Comments on: Kea: A Bogan-tastic Bird

By: paul

paul — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 07:46:30 +0000

Kea crusaders should check out this wonderful NHNZ doco, ‘Kea - Mountain Parrot’:
http://www.nzonscreen.com/title/kea-mountain-parrot-1993
“This documentary tells the story of the inimitable kea. The ‘Clown of the Alps’ is heralded as the world’s smartest bird (its intelligence rivals a monkey’s). Kea are infamous on South Island ski fields and tramping tracks for their insatiable (and deconstructive) inquisitiveness. Curiosity almost killed the kea when it was daubed a sheep killer, and tens of thousands were killed for a bounty. Here extraordinary night footage reveals the ‘avian wolf’ in action. The award-winning film makes a compelling case for the charismatic kea as a national icon.”

By: Anne

Anne — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 21:04:58 +0000

Boy, last time I looked at the votes, kea was in a neck-and-neck race for second with takahe. It’s just voomed away in the past few days.

By: Rogerelli

Rogerelli — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 08:26:20 +0000

It eats hot pies and chips?! A true NZ bird!

By: Anne

Anne — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 00:20:00 +0000

The kea’s suddenly snuck his wily self onto the Homepage header for this contest as well as being first bird on the list. Hmmm - ya gotta watch him and his sneaky ways of gaining attention and votes!!