New Zealand Kaka Happy Hour
by Venetia Featherstone-Witty
Title
New Zealand Kaka Happy Hour
Artist
Venetia Featherstone-Witty
Medium
Photograph - Photographs
Description
These delightful birds flew in every evening to eat peanuts - often out of our hands! The New Zealand kaka, also known as kākā, (Nestor meridionalis) is a large species of parrot of the superfamily Strigopoidea found in native forests of New Zealand. Two subspecies are recognised.The New Zealand kaka is a medium sized parrot, measuring 45 cm (18 in) in length and weighing from 390 to 560 g (14 to 20 oz), with an average of 452 g (0.996 lb). It is closely related to the Kea, but has darker plumage and is more arboreal.The forehead and crown are greyish-white and the nape is greyish-brown. The neck and abdomen are more reddish, while the wings are more brownish. Both sub species have a strongly patterned brown/green/grey plumage with orange and scarlet flashes under the wings; color variants which show red to yellow coloration especially on the breast are sometimes found.
This group of parrots is unusual, retaining more primitive features lost in most other parrots, because it split off from the rest around 100 million years ago]
The calls include a harsh ka-aa and a whistling u wiia.
FEATURED 11/30/14 in "FAA Portraits - Birds"
FEATURED 12/26/14 "Three A Day AAA Images"
FEATURED 2/6/15 in "Wildlife One A Day"
FEATURED 8/31/15 in "Wings"
FEATURED 11/19/17 in "Wild Birds Of The World"
FEATURED 8/23/20 in "Animal Photographs"
FEATURED 8/23/20 in "Beautiful Birds"
FEATURED 8/24/20 in "500 Views Share Group"
FEATURED 8/26/20 in "10 Plus"
FEATURED 8/26/20 in "FAA Portraits"
FEATURED 7/9/21 in "The Wonder of Wings"
FEATURED 9/5/21 in "Collector's Gallery"
FEATURED 9/7/21 in "Macro Marvels"
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November 30th, 2014
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Comments (32)
Robyn King
Congratulations your beautiful artwork is being featured in 500 Views Share Group & Shared:-)
William Tasker
Amazing closeup, Venetia! Your beautiful image has been featured by Wild Birds Of The World, a nature photography group. L/F
Venetia Featherstone-Witty replied:
Thank you William for the feature in "Wild Birds of the World" and the kind comments + the L/F :)
Don Columbus
Congratulations Venetia, your work is Featured I "Wings" Group!
Venetia Featherstone-Witty replied:
Thank you so much for the feature Don...more coming your way...love birds!
Robyn King
Excellent image Venetia!!
Venetia Featherstone-Witty replied:
Robyn - thank you so much - I love these birds - friendly and super smart.
Pamela Iris Harden
Fantastic capture of this beautiful bird, nice composition! LF and PIN
Venetia Featherstone-Witty replied:
Thank you Pamela! I was in New Zealand and in Whangarei in 2013 - what an amazing country! The Kaka's were on Stewart Island and they ate out of our hands!