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Kea🦜

Photo: Markus Koljonen (Dilaudid) · CC BY-SA 3.0

SpeciesPsittaciformesPsittacidae
Birds

🦜Kea

Nestor notabilis Gould, 1856

De kea (Nestor notabilis) is een vogelsoort uit de kleine familie (Strigopidae) van inheemse papegaaiachtigen die met name leeft in de buurt van Mount Cook in Nieuw-Zeeland. Zijn naaste verwant is de kaka (Nestor meridionalis).

Text: Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Measurements
10
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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
Details ↓

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.

Where it sits

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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