John Cancalosi / Kaka in tree, New Zealand

Mark Carwardine / New Zealand Kaka (Nestor meridionalis) investigating camera with Mark Carwardine, South Island, New Zealand

Mark Carwardine / New Zealand Kaka (Nestor meridionalis) feeding, South Island, New Zealand

Mark Carwardine / New Zealand Kaka (Nestor meridionalis), South Island, New Zealand

Gerard Satherley/ BIA / New Zealand Kaka (Nestor meridionalis), Stewart Island, New Zealand

Andy Trowbridge / Tui (Prosthemadera novaeseelandiae) feeding on sugar water at feeding station for South Island Kaka (Nestor meridionalis meridionalis) Orokonui Ecosanctuary, Otago Peninsula, South Island New Zealand....

Andy Trowbridge / Adult New Zealand bellbird (Anthornis melanura) perched on a sugar water feeder, at feeding station for South Island Kaka (Nestor meridionalis meridionalis) Orokonui Ecosanctuary, Otago Peninsula, So...

Andy Trowbridge / North Island Kaka (Nestor meridionalis septentrionalis). Close-up portrait. Kapiti Island, North Island, New Zealand. July. ENDANGERED SPECIES.

Brent Stephenson / Adult New Zealand kaka (Nestor meridionalis) in flight against a blue sky showing the red underwing. This is the Southern subspecies, meridionalis. Codfish Island, Stewart Island, New Zealand, Novembe...

Brent Stephenson / Adult New Zealand kaka (Nestor meridionalis) feeding on fresh buds of tree daisy (Olearia). This is the Southern subspecies, meridionalis. Ulva Island, Stewart Island, New Zealand, November. Endangere...

Brent Stephenson / Juvenile Kea (Nestor notabilis) playing with a car tyre in a carpark. Kaka Point, Fiordland, New Zealand, February. Vulnerable species.

Brent Stephenson / Adult New Zealand kaka (Nestor meridionalis) feeding on a Weta (Hemideina) which it is holding in its left foot. Little Barrier Island, Auckland, New Zealand, September. Endangered species.

Tui De Roy / New Zealand Kaka (Nestor meridionalis meridionalis) Observation Hill, Stewart Island, New Zealand

Tui De Roy / New Zealand Kaka (Nestor meridionalis meridionalis) foraging. Observation Hill, Stewart Island, New Zealand.

Piotr Naskrecki / New Zealand Kaka (Nestor meridionalis), New Zealand

Mark Hughes / New Zealand Kaka (Nestor meridionalis), Karori, Wellington, New Zealand

Mark Hughes / North Island Kaka (Nestor meridionalis septentrionalis) hanging from branch, Karori, Wellington, New Zealand

Mark Hughes / North Island Kaka (Nestor meridionalis septentrionalis), New Zealand

Mark Hughes / North Island Kaka (Nestor meridionalis septentrionalis) pair preening, New Zealand

Mark Hughes / North Island Kaka (Nestor meridionalis septentrionalis), New Zealand

Mark Hughes / North Island Kaka (Nestor meridionalis septentrionalis) feeding, New Zealand

Andrew Walmsley / North Island kaka (Nestor meridionalis septentrionalis) portrait, Wellington, New Zealand, October, Endangered species

Ross and Diane Armstrong / North Island Kaka (Nestor meridionalis septentrionalis) portrait, Little Barrier Island, New Zealand

Andy Reisinger / Kaka Beak (Clianthus puniceus) flower, New Zealand

Rod Williams / Kaka, North Island race {Nestor meridionalis septentriolanis}, from Kapiti Is, New Zealand

Tui De Roy / South Island Kaka (Nestor meridionalis meridionalis) calling from perch in forest vegetation, Codfish Island, South New Zealand

Philip Dalton / Kaka parrots {Nestor meridionalis} feeding on {Lobelia} flower, New Zealand

Konrad Wothe / New Zealand Kaka (Nestor meridionalis) feeding on Nikau (Rhopalostylis sapida) palm flowers, New Zealand

John Cancalosi / Kaka parrot flies from branch {Nestor meridionalis} New Zealand

John Cancalosi / Kaka parrot portrait {Nestor meridionalis} North Island, New Zealand

Albert Aanensen / Kaka, New Zealand

Albert Aanensen / Kaka beak flower {Clianthus puniceus} New Zealand

John Cancalosi / Kaka Parrot in flight, North Island, New Zealand

Martin Grimm/ BIA / New Zealand Kaka (Nestor meridionalis), Stewart Island, New Zealand

Eric Sohn Joo Tan/ BIA / New Zealand Kaka (Nestor meridionalis), Stewart Island, New Zealand

Sebastian Kennerknecht / New Zealand Kaka (Nestor meridionalis) parrot, North Island, New Zealand

Albert Aanensen / Kaka Parrot perched. Kapiti Is. (Nestor meridionalis) New Zealand

Joel Sartore / Photo Ark / New Zealand kaka (Nestor meridionalis septentrionalis) portrait, Wellington Zoo, New Zealand. Captive.

Roland Seitre / Kaka (Nestor meridionalis) plumage detail, museum specimen, Natural History Museum Paris, France. Occurs in New Zealand.

Julian Hume / Extinct parrots.. Clockwise from top left: Glaucous Macaw (Anodorhynchus glaucus) extinct, 1960, from South America.. Cuban red macaw (Ara tricolor) extinct in 1864. Cuba, West Indies. Jamaican red ma...