Bruce, a partially beak-less Kea parrot, is giving the term "bird brained" new meaning by wow-ing scientists with his innovative self-care tools. Animal Minds/University of Auckl Bruce, a partially ...

Kea inhabit high in New Zealand’s South Island mountains, where they thrive in frigid, harsh alpine habitats. Researchers learn about kea behavior in order to help defend them better and gain insights ...

Olive green kea parrots are trotting around a porch on a sunny day when one turns suddenly and bolts for the camera. The bird swipes the GoPro from the railing and takes off across the New Zealand ...

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 ...

Scientists studying kea, New Zealand’s alpine parrot, revealed that the famously mischievous birds could understand probabilities, an impressive mental feat. The pair of researchers put six birds ...

Journal of Avian Medicine and Surgery, Vol. 31, No. 1 (MARCH 2017), pp. 24-28 (5 pages) We describe the seminal characteristics of the kea parrot (Nestor notabilis), an endangered species endemic to ...

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Birds of a feather flock together — far away from society. Researchers have found reason to believe that the kea — a large, endangered parrot species — once lived among humans before moving away from ...

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, ...

Scientists in New Zealand have tested to see how accurately a particular species of parrot can predict future events, and found that, in many ways, the birds are as proficient as the great apes. In ...

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University of Canterbury provides funding as a member of The Conversation AU. University of Canterbury provides funding as a member of The Conversation NZ. Avian experts have repeatedly demonstrated ...