New Zealand’s highly intelligent parrot, the playful kea bird, has a contagious “play call,” like human laughter, that makes other kea birds want to play more. A new study in the journal Current ...

The kea has been crowned New Zealand’s Bird of the Year after two weeks of heated campaigning. These large, green mountain parrots are known for their curiosity and intelligence. Once numbering in the ...

After weeks of heated campaigning, New Zealand's Bird of the Year has been announced as the kea. It marks the first victory for the endangered mountain parrot, known for its intelligence and curiosity ...

The kea's status has officially changed to endangered after raids on their nests by introduced predators reduced their numbers to only a few thousand. The mountain parrot, which was recently crowned ...

DoC is considering a campaign to discourage people from feeding kea and prevent kea from learning to scrounge. Photo / Forest and Bird A Massey University post-mortem has found six kea in the ...

Imagine being rejected by your parents after being born. For Nelson, a baby Kea parrot, this is exactly what happened when he hatched. According to the UK Daily Mail, Nelson was born into tough ...

The bird is a kea from New Zealand, and his fabrication of an instrument to help him preen his feathers appears to be unique, researchers say. By Nicholas Bakalar Many animals are known to use tools, ...

HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - New safeguards are in place on Mauna Kea to protect an endangered bird once thought to have disappeared from the mountain ecosystem. The uau Hawaiian petrel seabird was ...

The Kea has taken the coveted title of 'Bird of the Year' 2017. / Forest and Bird The "cheeky" green parrot that can be seen in the forest and alpine regions of the South Island has been crowned Bird ...