I love how belligerent is an adjective used to describe these birds 😂

Aww this is so lovely 😍 MAGNIFICENT ‼️

@BirdBath1

Жыл бұрын

Elva Jaramillo, look at bird bath

Travel to New Zealand and meet the world's most intelligent thief. The Kea is my favorite bird.

@BirdBath1

Жыл бұрын

Quantum Mechanic, look at bird bath

Adorable hard workers and smart! Hope their numbers grow!

@BirdBath1

Жыл бұрын

Karen Piotte, look at bird bath

@Fenrirsleeps

10 ай бұрын

Funny fact the learned to hunt sheep by landing on them and eating them slowly alive since the sheep won’t fight back

KEAS DO NOT ATTACK!!

They are beautiful! Thanks for this well done video. The cinematography is as always magnificent. I will show this video to my mom, who is also an avid birdlover. Thanks!

@BirdBath1

Жыл бұрын

juliazwei, look at bird bath

Ms birdwatcher here loving this in California 🤓

@BirdBath1

Жыл бұрын

b.visconti, look at bird bath

Kea Frozen Planet 2

I love their call. Amazing birds!

I learned some new things today.

@BirdBath1

Жыл бұрын

In my field, look at bird bath

Very scary when its beak got to close to its partner's eye!!!!

@BirdBath1

Жыл бұрын

Lemev, look at bird bath

I love them! Adorable!

@BirdBath1

Жыл бұрын

EinieN J, look at bird bath

So precious !🙏🦜🙏

@BirdBath1

Жыл бұрын

C Shirmer, look at bird bath

Wow how cute 🥰

@BirdBath1

Жыл бұрын

I_am_a freespirit, look at bird bath

I love birds most of all animals

@EyeSeeThruYou

Жыл бұрын

Same 🦉🦅🐦🦜🕊️🦢🦩🦚🦃🦆🐧🐓🐣🐥🪶🪹🪺💚

@BirdBath1

Жыл бұрын

Kim Walsh, look at bird bath

Kea is an amazing bird

HaShem created perfection and beauty.

They peel the flesh from the sheep

Keas are remarkable birds: playful, belligerent and smart

It's wearing a bracelet. Is that a tag for tracking?

New Zealand 🇳🇿

Hey kid wait! you can't join in the romance yet 2:33. These smart young Keas are learning fast to be romantic.

❤lovely

@BirdBath1

Жыл бұрын

Naserati, look at bird bath

Why are their feet tagged with something?

@EyeSeeThruYou

Жыл бұрын

It's called leg-bands, or leg-rings. These are fitted to a bird to collect scientific data on its behavior and lifespan.

@readme7121

Жыл бұрын

@@EyeSeeThruYou Not cool, but thanks for explaining.

@EyeSeeThruYou

Жыл бұрын

@@readme7121 The leg ringing does not harm the bird, and the data the rings make possible to collect can be used to guide conservation policy and legal protections. What helps protect the bird from human destruction is good.

@readme7121

Жыл бұрын

@@EyeSeeThruYou Isn't it using Wifi or Bluetooth to transmit data? That can't be healthy for the bird. Radiation at the foot. It's that close.

@paulg3336

Жыл бұрын

@@readme7121 It's a simple metal band that has been used to mark birds for scientific purposes since 1669 and for ownership since 218 BC

That is not play-fighting, it is a stylized courtship/"romantic" version of the male regurgitating food to feed the female (like they do to feed chicks). They don't necessarily actually regurgitate food when they do it.

Kias are actually endemic to the Abardeer Mountains in Kenya 🇰🇪

@cameron2982

Жыл бұрын

No they're not they're from New Zealand

@BirdBath1

Жыл бұрын

Collins O'Connor, look at bird bath

@EyeSeeThruYou

Жыл бұрын

@@BirdBath1 *Kea* are endemic to New Zealand only. Not found anywhere else in the world.

@BirdBath1

Жыл бұрын

@@EyeSeeThruYou read my name, look at the birds i have

@BirdBath1

Жыл бұрын

@@cameron2982 look at bird bath

Scientist that believe certain animals are as smart as a young child never had kids.

This is a really wonderful short about an iconic species which accomplished something analogous to what Penguins did in the antarctic and sub-antarctic: they evolved to occupy a niche in colder climes to beat out the competition (other parrots and animals). 🏔️🗻 *AMAZING!* 👍👏 I do have two questions, however: 1) Why is the pair-bonding behavior depicted being described as "play-fighting" when it's clear that the male regurgitated a food gift to the female, which is the general objective of the behavioral ritual? That's not "fighting," even as play, as it's a very common behavior documented in a multitude of Psittacines to strengthen the pair bond. In adult birds, it's often the male which initiates it and provides a regurgitated food-gift to the female, but not always; sometimes the female initiates the display while the male will then usually produce a food-gift to her. Parent birds of many species do this as well. 2) Irene Pepperberg, PhD (and others) established the estimated equivalent cognitive ability of Psittacines to be closer to a 7 year old human. Is there a factor which exists in Kea brain anatomy which would reduce neural capacity relative to other Psittacines? It would seem that evolutionary adaptations favoring the ability to survive in harsher environs would actually increase that propensity, not reduce or diminish it.

@zweij

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for such interesting questions. I will also wait for the response