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 ...
Most parrots live in warm tropical climates, but New Zealand’s keas are the only parrots to live in a cold alpine climate ... Sheep were first brought into kea territory when Europeans settled ...
Two-thirds of the park is covered with southern beech and podocarps, some of which are over 800 years old. The kea, the only alpine parrot in the world, lives in the park, as does the rare and ...