Sunday, December 1, 2013 at 23:14 
Kaka at the Zealandia bird sanctuary, Wellington New Zealand. Image by sandwichgirlA spike in lead poisoning deaths among Wellington's resurgent kaka population is being investigated by researchers.
Tuesday, October 22, 2013 at 12:23 
CHEEKY BEGGARS: Kaka at Pukaha Mt Bruce.Booming numbers of kaka are great news for Pukaha Mt Bruce National Wildlife Centre - even if cafe staff have to be on the lookout for beggars.
"We have some quite cheeky kaka who are nesting and they're begging for food at the cafe," manager Helen Evans-Tickner said. "They are getting a little bit overzealous."
The Dominion Post has been told of a cafe worker and a child being bitten by the native parrots recently. Ms Evans-Tickner said they sometimes nipped at staff, but she had not heard of bitten customers.
Nestor meridionalis - Kaka | in Conflict, Conservation, Urban parrots Friday, August 23, 2013 at 2:37 
Kaka damage trees when looking for tasty sap. Iamge by Arthur ChapmanTrees to get the chop after parrot damage
Nestor meridionalis - Kaka | in Conflict Wednesday, July 10, 2013 at 15:06 
Kaka in the tree. Image by Rich Childs.A kaka bred at the Dunedin Botanic Garden has made her way home, and appears to be taking up residence.
Tuesday, May 14, 2013 at 23:14 
Kākā juvenile GG-V demonstrating how to sap feed by gouging through the bark with the convenient can-opener attached to her face, also known as her beak! (Photo by Kerry Charles)Skraaaark. Alfie Kākā here, interviewing Kerry Charles, who has just completed her thesis “Urban human-wildlife conflict: North Island kākā (Nestor meridionalis septentrionalis) in Wellington City”.
Conflict! Sounds like I’ll need my foreign correspondent’s flak jacket for this one. But the set-up looks friendly enough. (Like many dispatches from the front line, this is to be conducted over drinks and nibbles in a neighbourhood watering-hole, though I can hear nearby skrarks and wibbles from a group of young larrikin green-banders just outside). Although it’s full moon, I stick to just one sugar water and a few almonds.
Nestor meridionalis - Kaka | in Conflict, Conservation, Urban parrots 
