A great favourite with Scrabble aficionados (it's a great way to get rid of a K, or to nick a few points if you've got a rackful of vowels), the kea was memorably described in one dictionary I used to use as a "sheep–killing parrot of New Zealand".
Sadly I no longer have access to that particular dictionary, and I can't even remember which one it was. Wikipedia however is (as always) more informative. It tells us that the kea is ...
... about 48 cm (19 in) long, mostly olive-green with a brilliant orange under its wings and a large, narrow, curved, grey-brown upper beak ... the world's only alpine parrot ... its omnivorous diet includes carrion, but consists mainly of roots, leaves, berries, nectar, and insects ... now uncommon, it was once killed for bounty due to concerns by the sheep-farming community that it attacked livestock, especially sheep ... it received full protection in 1986.
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