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yellow variant kaka (Nestor meridionalis)

Southland Museum, Invercargill, December 2006
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the blue kakariki on the cover of NZ Geographic mentioned above:
 
There was also a kaka native to the Chatham Islands to the east which was probably a distinct species; I have read somewhere that it may have been approaching flightlessness; it became extinct after colonisation by the Moriori (and before the arrival of Europeans).
the Chatham Island species has finally been given a name, Nestor chathamensis, and a scientific description.

See here for an article about it (with a link to the abstract of the scientific paper at the bottom): New species of parrot described from the Chatham Islands | Media Releases | Landcare Research
 

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