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Kea🦜

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SpeciesPsittaciformesPsittacidae
Birds

🦜Kea

Nestor notabilis Gould, 1856

ミヤマオウム（深山鸚鵡、Nestor notabilis）は、鳥綱オウム目フクロウオウム科ミヤマオウム属の1種である。 マオリ語ではケア (Kea)。ほかに、ケアオウム、キアとも。

Text: Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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≈ 1/72nd of your weight
Conservation status
ENEndangered

IUCN Red List assessment, 2017.

Population trendDecreasing
Key measurements
Body mass
0.86 kg
Body length
not recorded
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
47 years
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Facts and figures

Everything we know about the Kea

Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.

Body mass
0.86 kg
AVONET
Other figures ↓

Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

By sex

  • Female779 kgWikidataQ193337
  • Male956 kgWikidataQ193337

Figures vary

  • 0.87 kgAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Tail length
0.17 m
AVONET
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Wing length
0.31 m
AVONET
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Beak length
0.06 m
AVONET
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Tarsus length
0.05 m
AVONET
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Maximum lifespan
47 years
AnAge
Details ↓

data quality: acceptable

Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0

Trophic level
Herbivore
AVONET
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Habitat
Grassland
AVONET
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Lifestyle
Insessorial
AVONET
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Volume l
0.9 Laverage
Details ↓

Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.

average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.

Not recorded for Kea yet: body length, shoulder height, top speed, bite force.

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Family tree

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classAves
  4. ›orderPsittaciformes
  5. ›familyPsittacidae
  6. ›genusNestor
  7. ›speciesNestor notabilis
Full lineage
  1. orderSauria
  2. classBirds · Aves
  3. orderParrots · Psittaciformes
  4. genusNestor
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  1. kingdomMetazoa
  2. phylumChordata
  3. subphylumCraniata
  4. subphylumVertebrata
  5. superclassGnathostomata
  6. superclassSarcopterygii
  7. superclassTetrapoda
  8. orderSauria
  9. classBirds · Aves
  10. orderParrots · Psittaciformes
  11. genusNestor
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In other languages
Kea (de), kea (nb), kea (ca), nestor kea (cs), Kea (da), Nestor notabilis (es) … and 26 more languages
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KeaA pair of Kea. (14046217257)Fiordland National Park, Part I Fiordland9060
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