These two aggressive-looking keas appear in the fauna section of the “New Zealand Atlas,” reviewed on this page, which contains 77 pages of photographs, many in full colour. A distinguished ornithologist, Sir Robert Falla, who writes in the atlas of the birds of forest and shore, says that the kea, restricted to a mountain environment, has proved more adaptable than its relative, the kaka which is a comparatively rare bird today.
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Press, Volume CXVI, Issue 34119, 3 April 1976, Page 10
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71These two aggressive-looking keas appear in the fauna section of the “New Zealand Atlas,” reviewed on this page, which contains 77 pages of photographs, many in full colour. A distinguished ornithologist, Sir Robert Falla, who writes in the atlas of the birds of forest and shore, says that the kea, restricted to a mountain environment, has proved more adaptable than its relative, the kaka which is a comparatively rare bird today. Press, Volume CXVI, Issue 34119, 3 April 1976, Page 10
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