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Kea ( nestor notabilis )
Unashamedly my favourite bird..
Ive spent countless hours entertained by them in, fact was almost killed by one many years ago as a young fella while looking for Kakapo with Don Merton in the head of the Donne valley near Milford sound.
Several birds where perched atop of a large "Goolee" massive rock that had come down from the glaciated valley walls. I clambered up with my trusty Kodac insta-matic camera and was gazing through the view finder when one bird rushed at me to bite. Leaping back I fell off the boulder nearly 20 feet and was lucky I fell among crown fern.
The only casualty was my pride, but I learned something...
They would fly in during the worst of storms to slide down our tent roof during the night while the weather raged around us in our tiny nucleus of comfort....engaging birds that capture ones heart...
Its a shame our Govt and other authorised bodies have almost driven them to extinction with 1080 poison applications over 50 years of mindless use......
They keep telling people how effective it is but the number of possums etc has increased over and over....
Also many people do not realise that after a poison drop (1080 ) and possum number reduced the berry drop is correspondingly heavy with a massive increase in rodents so the birds get a double whammy....
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Kea ( nestor notabilis )
Unashamedly my favourite bird..
Ive spent countless hours entertained by them in, fact was almost killed by one many years ago as a young fella while looking for Kakapo with Don Merton in the head of the Donne valley near Milford sound.
Several birds where perched atop of a large "Goolee" massive rock that had come down from the glaciated valley walls. I clambered up with my trusty Kodac insta-matic camera and was gazing through the view finder when one bird rushed at me to bite. Leaping back I fell off the boulder nearly 20 feet and was lucky I fell among crown fern.
The only casualty was my pride, but I learned something...
They would fly in during the worst of storms to slide down our tent roof during the night while the weather raged around us in our tiny nucleus of comfort....engaging birds that capture ones heart...
Its a shame our Govt and other authorised bodies have almost driven them to extinction with 1080 poison applications over 50 years of mindless use......
They keep telling people how effective it is but the number of possums etc has increased over and over....
Also many people do not realise that after a poison drop (1080 ) and possum number reduced the berry drop is correspondingly heavy with a massive increase in rodents so the birds get a double whammy....