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Pillaging kea ‘poaching rare kiwi chicks’

January 03, 2005 — Filed in: Parrot News

By ANNE BESTON

Kea are highly intelligent

New Zealand’s mischievous alpine parrot, the kea, is suspected of killing rare kiwi chicks in the South Island.

Kea have never before been implicated in the decline of New Zealand’s national bird.

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