The kea has overcome vote-rigging and online trolling to be named New Zealand's Bird of the Year after two weeks of heated campaigning. While last month's New Zealand election means Jacinda Arden ...

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This documentary tells the story of the inimitable kea The Clown of the Alps is heralded as the worlds smartest bird its intelligence rivals a monkeys Kea are famous on South Island tracks and ski ...

But unlike most parrots, they also eat other birds. They have no problem breaking into nests, and gobbling any chicks they can find. Sheep were first brought into kea territory when Europeans ...

Shootings, nests deliberately set alight, live traps, slug guns, blow darts, dogs and quad bikes. These are the cruelties ...