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I went into the garden this morning to enjoy the dead silence (I could hear insect buzzing around!), and saw bit of bark falling off a kōwhai. Looked up and this specimen was peeling off the bark (to eat the sap?). It’s a kākā.

A kaka, a large parrot around half a metre in length and half a kg in weight.A kaka, a large parrot around half a metre in length and half a kg in weight. Ripping sections of bark off a kowhai tree with it's large beak, possibly to et the tree sap.

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