"Kaka look brown from a distance," says photographer Phil Brown. "But when you see them up close in the sun light they have a suprising amount of colour."
These boisterious birds gathers in flocks at the beginning and end of each day to chatter and socialise and clown around in the trees.
Quick kaka facts:
Kaka have a brush tongue and are important in pollinating some of our native trees.
Kaka hang upside down in trees and use their beak like a third leg to climb up tree trunks.
Kaka can use individual feet to grasp their snacks.
Kaka are on the decline, faced with habitat loss and predation by stoats
that attack nesting females or kill chicks.
Young Kaka can leave the nest before they can fly, making them an easy target.
It it thought that there are more males than females - not so good for the future of this curious bird.
