If you've ever had a kea nibble your car tyre or seen the mountain parrot move a traffic cone for no earthly reason, you'd know -- these cheeky birds do things just because they want to. Living in New ...

One of Hamilton Zoo’s feathered friends is now the star of his very own book, proudly written by Zoo Keeper Kylie Martin. The children’s book “Cheeky Charlie” is aimed at five to seven year olds and ...

The votes are in for 2017's second-biggest election and the winner is clear – the kea is our bird of the year. It is the first time the kea has won the annual Forest & Bird poll, which has run since ...

Cheeky kea needs your vote Voting for bird of the year is starting soon. Please vote for the kea. We heard from Corey Mosen who was at the literary festival with his kea dog, Ajax. There are only 5000 ...

With global warming decreasing the size of New Zealand's alpine zone, a University of Otago study found out what this means for our altitude-loving kea. The study, published in Molecular Ecology, ...

NZTA's cameras capture a group of kea rearranging road cones at Homer Tunnel. / NZTA - Milford Alliance The kea spotted moving road cones near the Homer Tunnel have been given their own "roadside gym" ...

A wild New Zealand parrot - perhaps with a desire to spread its wings further afield - has pinched a Scottish man's passport in a bag snatch. The passport was in a brightly coloured courier bag in the ...

New Zealand's cheeky kea can take their place among the smartest birds on the planet – and could even inspire artificial intelligence in years to come. Notorious for stealing from tourists and ...

Country’s treasured avian species puff up their plumage as nation votes on who rules the roost Bird of the Year leaderboard – check the pecking order First there was the “Jacinda effect” and a ...

One of Hamilton Zoo's favourite feathered friends is now the star of his very own book, written by zoo keeper Kylie Martin. The children's book Cheeky Charlie is aimed at 5 to 7-year-olds and tells ...

The world’s only mountain parrot whose cheeky antics divide Kiwis, beats kererū and kākāpō to coveted crown New Zealand bird of the year leaderboard: check the pecking order The kea, the world’s only ...

With global warming decreasing the size of New Zealand's alpine zone, a new study found out what this means for our altitude-loving kea. With global warming decreasing the size of New Zealand's alpine ...