Cheeky Bird toys provide mental stimulation for pet birds, with a solid construction of bright coloured wood and natural hemp rope, dyed with food grade colouring, with wire or chain through the middle, these toys are sure to provide long lasting entertainment.
Known as the 'Clown of the mountain', the Kea is a mountain parrot that's native to New Zealand and touted as one of the most intelligent birds on the planet. They're cheeky characters that are well known for being mischievous, inquisitive and intelligent.
Smarter than the Average Monkey
The New Zealand Kea, the world's only alpine parrot is known as the 'Clown of the Alps' to South Islanders; and has recently been heralded as the world's smartest bird (its intelligence rivals a monkey's) says the Institute of Cognitive Biology in Vienna.
The Kea has been enlisted by many as the worlds most intelligent bird among top ten intelligent birds. The Kea is found in New Zealand and it is basically a parrot.
Parrots and the corvid family of crows, ravens, and jays are considered the most intelligent of birds.
In Fiordland National Park, there have been concerns that kea are particularly at risk from road traffic at the entrance to the Homer Tunnel. Kea have been regularly observed on the roadway, moving amongst vehicles waiting to pass through the one-way tunnel.
Kaka are smaller, olive-brown and very rarely seen above the timberline. They excavate the wood of live trees, whereas keas do not. Kaka have more varied calls, including fluting whistles and harsh grating 'skraaarks'. The extremely rare and localised kakapo is larger, flightless and nocturnal.
"They've been shown in a number of tests that they're very quick to solve problems," Professor Kaplan said. She said their ability to solve problems developed due to particularly difficult environment in which they live, and the complex group social dynamics they live within.
The Australian magpie is one of the cleverest birds on earth. It has a beautiful song of extraordinary complexity. It can recognize and remember up to 30 different human faces.
Since they're nationally endangered, keeping them as pets is illegal. You may rarely find a kea parrot pet, but there are some keas purposely kept by organizations that aim to conserve their species.
Stoats are the primary predators of kea, and feral cats are also a major threat, particularly in eastern South Island areas where cat populations make incursions into kea habitat. Possums are known to prey on kea and disturb nests, and rats have also occasionally been observed preying on kea eggs.
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Males give a soft “tsee-tsee-tsee” call during the pre-copulatory display and when showing potential nest sites to females. Females soliciting food from their mates, and juveniles soliciting food from their parents, utter a guttural, repeated “aa-aa” call.
Kea are considered taonga (treasure) to Maori. They were considered kaitiaki (guardians) of the mountains for the Waitaha Maori during their search for Pounamu (greenstone).
Kea are neophilic mountain parrots of New Zealand with well-known manipulative skills that are not known to use tools in the wild, while New Caledonian crows are known for their tool manufacture and use in the wild [27]–[29].
The Black Kite's range covers the majority of the Australian mainland, as well as Africa, Asia and Europe. The Black Kite is arguably the most numerous species of raptor in the world.
The kea is a parrot and like all parrots it has 4 toes on each foot – two that point forward and two that point backward (zygodactyl). This allows it to easily manipulate objects (more like having hands than feet), and move around in the trees and on the ground.
Fast facts: Pheasant Coucals mate for life and, unlike other Australian cuckoos, build their own nests and raise their chicks themselves. You might recognise the Pheasant Coucal by its distinctive 'oop-oop-oop-opp' call.
Golden-crowns sing sporadically throughout the winter, then more often again as weather warms in spring, before their departure in March and April for northern breeding grounds. Their song is a distinctive series of three clearly whistled, descending notes, though you will often hear only two, and occasionally four.
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Te: the; teko: rock. Teko may however be a contraction of tekoteko, the carved figure on a gable of a meeting house.
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Breeding and life expectancy
In captivity some parrot species can live to 80 or older, but the oldest known age for a wild kea is 20 years.
Maori gave the name kea, describing the sound of its call ('kee-aa! '). Kea were considered guardians of the mountains for the Waitaha Maori during their search for Pounamu (greenstone). A flock of kea is known either as a 'circus of kea' or a 'curiousity of kea'! 'Kea' is both singular and plural.