One of the few Alpine parrots, the intelligent and inquisitive Kea is native to New Zealand's South Island.
The normal camouflage colour of khaki/green covers a rainbow of hidden plumage colours and patterns including turquoise
blue, red and yellow-striped feathers.
The camouflage khaki/green.
Juvenile birds (above) have a yellow eye-ring, cere (nostrils) and lower beak.
The turquoise wing feathers.
A red back and underwing.
Yellow-striped wing feathers suggesting links to hawks - actually parrot/falcon ancestry
(also, unusually for parrots, Kea eat carrion and even live bird/mammal prey as well as fruit/vegetation).