kea

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Before the white man came, in fact, the kea was a mild-mannered fruit-eating or honey-sucking bird.

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  1. noun A brownish-green mountain-dwelling New Zealand parrot (Nestor notabilis) that usually eats insects but sometimes feeds on carrion and rubbish.

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  • However, it seems that Papahānaumokuākea is an almost impossible place to visit. —  World Hum
  • Like Papahānaumokuākea, Mount Vernon will be considered by the World Heritage Committee next year. —  msnbc.com: Top msnbc.com headlines
  • One was the misty rain, another a certain, unspecified cloud formation and the third was a koae kea, or white-tailed tropic bird, flying within the caldera. —  Starbulletin Headlines
  • Similar experiments, usually less striking, are known in many birds; but the most signal illustration is that of the kea or Nestor parrot of New Zealand, which has taken to lighting on the loins of the sheep, tearing away the fleece, cutting at the skin, and gouging out fat. —  The Outline of Science, Vol. 1 (of 4) A Plain Story Simply Told
  • [Page 68 Passed is Ka-maha-la'-wili The very ridge-pole of the rain 10 It's as if the peak cut it in twain An arched roof the peak's crest Hale-hale-o A twisted cord hangs the brook Wai-hilau Like smoke from roasting bird Ocean's wild dance The shark-god is swimming the sea 15 The rocks leap down at Big-leaf[174] and Flat-leaf--[174 See the ocean charge 'gainst the cliffs Thrust snout like rooting boar against Windy-cape Against Koholá-lele Footnote 169: Koa'e-kea, Pueo hulu-nui_. —  Unwritten Literature of Hawaii The Sacred Songs of the Hula
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