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From: sunia@hpspdra.HP.COM (Sunia Yang)
Newsgroups: rec.birds
Subject: Re: Carolina Parakeet (US Endemic Bird Species)
Message-ID: <15540001@hpspdra.HP.COM>
Date: 13 Sep 90 15:21:16 GMT
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New Zealand actually has quite a few types of parrots but the kea is
what every scrub jay would like to grow up to be.  It's a brownish
green bird with a bill the size of your index finger, standing about
one and a half to two feet tall.  They continually hound tourists in
Fiordland- a huge national park in South New Zealand, tearing rubber
trim off windowshields, trying to make off with  backpacks, etc.  The
sheep ranchers hate them because they are reputed to attack sheep,
espcially young and sick.  Not a very nice bird.

Sunia "I wish I were there again" Yang