11002-21108 South Island kaka (Nestor meridionalis meridionalis) female killed on nest in tree hollow by a stoat (Mustela erminea) *
DSC_8451 South Island kaka (Nestor meridionalis meridionalis) the telltale feeding sign left behind by a kaka after it has attacked the decaying trunk of a rimu (Dacrydium cupressinum) tree, in the search for the protein rich larvae of longhorn beetles (Family Cerambycidae). Coal Island, southwest Fiordland *
DSC_1187 South Island kaka (Nestor meridionalis meridionalis) the preserved study skins of colour varieties of our native kaka; one white, and one cream individual, and a red kaka, known to Maori as kaka kura. Such colour forms were rapidly shot out by 'collectors' during the Victorian era, they are seldom seen in the wild today *
