How to solve a problem like the kea

COREY MOSEN PROMISING: Researchers believe they have found a new way to deter keas from attacking sheep. Image striezelchen The centuries old grudge match between South Island sheep farmers and bloodthirsty mountain parrots could soon be over.

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Kea killed by rock thrown by child

Updated on Monday, July 23, 2012 at 23:40 by City Parrots

ENDANGERED: A kea, like this one, has died after being hit by a rock thrown by a child at Porter Heights Ski Area. Image by Geof Wilson Police and the Department of Conservation have been notified after a kea was killed at a Canterbury skifield.

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The kea: mountain mastermind

For any of you who've spent time in South Island skifields, or stopped to watch them in Arthur's Pass, the West Coast or Mt Cook, there's no mistaking the raucous cry of our much-loved (and sometimes maligned) alpine parrot, the kea.

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Kea treading along an endangered path

BIRD STUDY: Kea Conservation Trust chairwoman Tamsin Orr-Walker and scientific adviser Lorne Roberts tag a kea. There are as few kea left in the world as there are tigers, and think how much is being spent on saving tigers.

That's the message from the Kea Conservation Fund when it comes to the future of New Zealand's native parrot.

Trust chairwoman Tamsin Orr-Walker and scientific adviser Lorne Roberts discussed their work last night in Timaru at a New Zealand Alpine Club meeting.

The kea population stood at between 1000 and 5000 but research on four separate populations indicated numbers were decreasing.

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Kea using sticks as tools

Kea have joint the leage of tool using animals. Imge by Evan Goldenberg.The word seems to be spreading through the kea community - "use a stick!"

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