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Kea

The Mountain Parrot is a Kea. It is a New Zealand native bird. It is called a clown bird. The Kea is related to the kaka.

The back of a kea’s wings are green and at the front it has got orange.

Between 1,000 and 5,000 Kea live in the wild on the western side of the Southern Alps, Kaikoura ranges.

Keas eat food scraps, dead meat, snow berries and grubs.

Keas are one of the most interesting birds in the world. It is our funny, naughty native parrot.

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The Kea is a New Zealand native bird. It is a kind of parrot.

The kea has beautiful wings. The keas have gray or black hooked beaks. Keas have beautiful orange and green long feathers.

Keas live in mountains and mostly live in the South Island.

Keas fly up to the mountains to eat snow berries.  When people brought sheep to the mountains keas found a new food – dead meat. Some Keas killed live sheep and all the Keas were blamed.  Thousands of keas were killed until 1970.   They also eat berries, seeds, tender roots, and leaf buds. Keas use their beaks to pick up sticks to make nests. They use their beaks to eat rubber from cars.

Between 1,000 and 5,000 still live in the wild in New Zealand.

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Tui

The Tui is a New Zealand native bird.

Under its neck it has little white fluffy feathers. On the wings blue and green shines. It has sharp claws and a beak and a short tail. The male Tui size is 30 cm and female size is 29 cm.

It can be found in your kowhai tree, pohutukawa tree and also your garden. If you’re lucky you might see them perching or singing.

Tui suck on nectar out of kowhai tree flowers and they eat fruit and insects. Sometimes they catch moths on their wings to eat.

Tui have three to four eggs and the colour of the eggs are plain pink with reddish brown specks.

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Kea

Keas belong to the parrot family.

A kea has a hooked beak and orange, yellow, green and brown feathers. They have red under their wings and they have two feet.

Keas live in the South Island high country from Marlborough and Nelson to Fiordland.

Keas hook their feet on to the branch and they eat carrots and broccoli, apples and oranges. Keas lay eggs that are too big for their size.

Keas scratch their head feathers with their feet.

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