Thank u so much for this informations, today was the first day I heard the „Whistle“ and I didn’t recognize before (I work with keas 21 years) and now I found your video about it and it helped me so much
This is fantastic! I always make a trip to Willowbank or Orana Park when I visit NZ, just to see the Kea. On my last visit to Orana, Arthur and Lewis were perched on my shoulders making the whistle call. I’m so excited to know this is a call of comfort, and feel blessed to have shared what is apparently a rare moment. I knew it was sweet at the time, but wow! Very glad to learn all of this, and to have the whole experience on video!
That was lovely - I've subscribed now so can learn more. I volunteer at Willowbank on Sundays in the Farmyard - when I don't have photography to do. Thank you again. Kea are my absolute favourite.
i was half asleep one time listening to the calls of a magpie, and as i drifted into sleep, i started focusing on the negative space in the call and it sounded like vague radio presenters or something, almost like a distorted radio frequency picking up a stereotypical AM station talkshow lol. yeah i'm probably just crazy.
It is, they can make plenty of noise when they really want to, but most of the time they just quietly work away at destroying whatever is in front of them without making too many calls at all.
Awesome content. I was just in my garden in South Westland NZ and heard these strange calls for a wee while but couldn't see anything, next I saw about 4 or 5 flying parrot like birds flying west so googled Kea sounds and it was three of these. So I deduce they are foraging and making that known to the neighborhood!
Wonderful video! I learned a lot, thank you, Patrick! Just about melted at the mew, too. (What a charming mutter.) It will be good to be able to understand a little about the background calls when you're walking the aviary. Questions? Ooh! *Rubs hands together.* About the "I'm OK with you" call that has a lot of quick gaps: are those gaps equivalent to glottal stops, or are there components beyond human hearing that fill those spaces? Given that most parrots have what seems to amount to a voice box coming off of each lung, is the rapid pulse achieved by swapping off , or is this a whole-voice call? About the preference against mimicry: why is that? I'm imagining that it might be partly because there is less to mimic in alpine areas, or maybe because of their fission-fusion social dynamic, or maybe part of the structural differences in their beaks... but are there actual reasons we know, yet? How does Kati-Bruce do with sound making? Smiled at seeing that some of the kea are moulting (short tail feathers 😁). Do the kea or Willowbank do anything with the dropped feathers? How do the kea at Willowbank treat the humans they see frequently? Do some of you get adopted into the flock? Are you missed if you go away for a while? Are there different social practices among the birds who were hatched there vs. the birds who were rescued or came from another facility? How do the Willowbank kea react, if at all, to birds they see outside of the aviary? Can you tell by body-language what a kea might be thinking or planning, before they actually start getting into mischief or something?
Some really great insightful questions here. I always look forward to your responses to each video because of the quality of the questions you bring up! I want to incorporate a few of these into future videos but I’ll try my best to give some answers here too. I’m not quite sure of the mechanism the birds use to achieve the gaps in the call. But we do have some very high quality recordings, and looking at the spectrograms for those I am pretty certain there are no components in those gaps above human hearing (at least not up to 64 kHz) We suspect that the lack of mimicry is primarily due to their alpine environment. There just aren’t many other animals up there making calls for them to mimic. Kati does totally fine calling. Most kea calls don’t really make much use of the beak so it doesn’t have much impact. That said, we haven’t really looked into how frequently Kati makes certain calls compared to the other birds, so that could be something interesting for us to analyse. Neither Willowbank or us do anything with dropped feathers, however they are sometimes collected by the local iwi. Of course we all like to think we are part of the flock but of course our relationship and interactions with the birds are very different to the ones they have with each other, so I don’t think we can really say any of us are adopted into the flock. That said they definitely recognise the people they see frequently. Neo and Megatron in particular will come over and ride around on us pretty much every time we all through the aviary, and if we have been away for a couple of weeks they will all come straight over to the gate on our first day back and give us lots of calls to welcome use back. There are actually a few other animals they share the aviary with (a swan and a pigeon are permanent residents and smaller birds like finches can make their way in and out through the mesh, plus eels and trouts will sometimes make their way up the river). The kea usually don’t have much of a reaction to them, although the juveniles sometimes get a bit curious about the eels. If a hawk or a flock of geese fly overhead you might also hear some alarm calling. The biggest reaction they have though is to the siamang gibbons in an enclosure on the other side of the park. They can’t see each other, but when the gibbons start calling it will sometimes get the kea worked up and calling too. There are a few body language signs we do notice. You can tell when they’re about to jump on you, but we also do a lot of fecal collections as part of a couple of our studies, so we have learnt the signs to look out for when they are ready to poop.
@@AnimalMindsLab That's a pleasant coincidence: I always look forward to your videos! 😄 They make it fun and interesting to learn again, and I deeply appreciate your thoughtful answers even when my questions go out into the weeds a bit. It's very good to know that those questions aren't generally an imposition. 😊 Thank you for taking the time to answer all of the questions I posed this time. That gapped call is unusual and fascinating, moreso since they truly are gaps. Wow! Makes me wonder how it developed, especially since the closest thing I can think of in English is "Ah-ah-ah! (Don't you do that!)" which is very much warning instead of social affirmation. The kea's reactions to the siamang gibbons is truly a surprise. I wonder what they recognize in the gibbons' calls. Humans howl back at wolves and coyotes, and cluck at chickens or neigh at horses, but inter-species responsive calling doesn't seem like it would be common in a non-mimicking situation. X) I probably need to do some reading on that. That all of the kea gather to greet returning people is really heartwarming. If not adopted flock, it sounds like you're extended flock. Wonderful! Thank you, again. Looking forward to the next video!
Thank you for this video, Patrick! I remember one of the babies at Willowbank having a weird contact(?) call. The tone went more up and down than usual. Sounded very funny. Was it still learning how to screech properly?
Potentially, if the tone was going up and repeatedly they may have actually been attempting to learn a warble. Our guys at Willowbank seem to often attach a bit of screech to the start of their warble (especially the juveniles) so that’s what it could be. If it was one big overemphasised up and down then they were probably trying to learn to screech properly though.
A channel about kea is like a dream came true. Those guys are my favorite parrots ever since I've learnt about them
Glad you’re enjoying it! They’re my favourite parrots ever too and I love sharing everything I can about them!
Thank u so much for this informations, today was the first day I heard the „Whistle“ and I didn’t recognize before (I work with keas 21 years) and now I found your video about it and it helped me so much
Short and informative, deserves a sub.
Kea noises are so cute!
Wow Keas are very cool animals
This is fantastic! I always make a trip to Willowbank or Orana Park when I visit NZ, just to see the Kea. On my last visit to Orana, Arthur and Lewis were perched on my shoulders making the whistle call. I’m so excited to know this is a call of comfort, and feel blessed to have shared what is apparently a rare moment. I knew it was sweet at the time, but wow! Very glad to learn all of this, and to have the whole experience on video!
That is beautiful! I wish I was there!!!
Another classic sound they make(not vocal), jumping around on top of your corrugated steel roof
Certainly true!
That was lovely - I've subscribed now so can learn more. I volunteer at Willowbank on Sundays in the Farmyard - when I don't have photography to do. Thank you again. Kea are my absolute favourite.
Thank you. So enjoyed that video.
You’re welcome! I love being able to share these birds and help people learn something new about them!
@@AnimalMindsLab. I love anything with the Kea and the Kakapo.
Thank you so much.
Thank you, glad you enjoyed it!
i was half asleep one time listening to the calls of a magpie, and as i drifted into sleep, i started focusing on the negative space in the call and it sounded like vague radio presenters or something, almost like a distorted radio frequency picking up a stereotypical AM station talkshow lol. yeah i'm probably just crazy.
It's interesting that they are less vocal while being super intelligent.
i thought Mew and Whistle are just so cute.
It is, they can make plenty of noise when they really want to, but most of the time they just quietly work away at destroying whatever is in front of them without making too many calls at all.
Maybe they lack the FOXP2 gene. The gene is linked to language development in Homo Sapiens and is found in parrots and most songbirds
Awesome content. I was just in my garden in South Westland NZ and heard these strange calls for a wee while but couldn't see anything, next I saw about 4 or 5 flying parrot like birds flying west so googled Kea sounds and it was three of these. So I deduce they are foraging and making that known to the neighborhood!
Wonderful video! I learned a lot, thank you, Patrick! Just about melted at the mew, too. (What a charming mutter.) It will be good to be able to understand a little about the background calls when you're walking the aviary.
Questions? Ooh! *Rubs hands together.*
About the "I'm OK with you" call that has a lot of quick gaps: are those gaps equivalent to glottal stops, or are there components beyond human hearing that fill those spaces? Given that most parrots have what seems to amount to a voice box coming off of each lung, is the rapid pulse achieved by swapping off , or is this a whole-voice call?
About the preference against mimicry: why is that? I'm imagining that it might be partly because there is less to mimic in alpine areas, or maybe because of their fission-fusion social dynamic, or maybe part of the structural differences in their beaks... but are there actual reasons we know, yet?
How does Kati-Bruce do with sound making?
Smiled at seeing that some of the kea are moulting (short tail feathers 😁). Do the kea or Willowbank do anything with the dropped feathers?
How do the kea at Willowbank treat the humans they see frequently? Do some of you get adopted into the flock? Are you missed if you go away for a while? Are there different social practices among the birds who were hatched there vs. the birds who were rescued or came from another facility?
How do the Willowbank kea react, if at all, to birds they see outside of the aviary?
Can you tell by body-language what a kea might be thinking or planning, before they actually start getting into mischief or something?
Some really great insightful questions here. I always look forward to your responses to each video because of the quality of the questions you bring up! I want to incorporate a few of these into future videos but I’ll try my best to give some answers here too.
I’m not quite sure of the mechanism the birds use to achieve the gaps in the call. But we do have some very high quality recordings, and looking at the spectrograms for those I am pretty certain there are no components in those gaps above human hearing (at least not up to 64 kHz)
We suspect that the lack of mimicry is primarily due to their alpine environment. There just aren’t many other animals up there making calls for them to mimic.
Kati does totally fine calling. Most kea calls don’t really make much use of the beak so it doesn’t have much impact. That said, we haven’t really looked into how frequently Kati makes certain calls compared to the other birds, so that could be something interesting for us to analyse.
Neither Willowbank or us do anything with dropped feathers, however they are sometimes collected by the local iwi.
Of course we all like to think we are part of the flock but of course our relationship and interactions with the birds are very different to the ones they have with each other, so I don’t think we can really say any of us are adopted into the flock. That said they definitely recognise the people they see frequently. Neo and Megatron in particular will come over and ride around on us pretty much every time we all through the aviary, and if we have been away for a couple of weeks they will all come straight over to the gate on our first day back and give us lots of calls to welcome use back.
There are actually a few other animals they share the aviary with (a swan and a pigeon are permanent residents and smaller birds like finches can make their way in and out through the mesh, plus eels and trouts will sometimes make their way up the river). The kea usually don’t have much of a reaction to them, although the juveniles sometimes get a bit curious about the eels. If a hawk or a flock of geese fly overhead you might also hear some alarm calling. The biggest reaction they have though is to the siamang gibbons in an enclosure on the other side of the park. They can’t see each other, but when the gibbons start calling it will sometimes get the kea worked up and calling too.
There are a few body language signs we do notice. You can tell when they’re about to jump on you, but we also do a lot of fecal collections as part of a couple of our studies, so we have learnt the signs to look out for when they are ready to poop.
@@AnimalMindsLab That's a pleasant coincidence: I always look forward to your videos! 😄 They make it fun and interesting to learn again, and I deeply appreciate your thoughtful answers even when my questions go out into the weeds a bit. It's very good to know that those questions aren't generally an imposition. 😊
Thank you for taking the time to answer all of the questions I posed this time. That gapped call is unusual and fascinating, moreso since they truly are gaps. Wow! Makes me wonder how it developed, especially since the closest thing I can think of in English is "Ah-ah-ah! (Don't you do that!)" which is very much warning instead of social affirmation.
The kea's reactions to the siamang gibbons is truly a surprise. I wonder what they recognize in the gibbons' calls. Humans howl back at wolves and coyotes, and cluck at chickens or neigh at horses, but inter-species responsive calling doesn't seem like it would be common in a non-mimicking situation. X) I probably need to do some reading on that.
That all of the kea gather to greet returning people is really heartwarming. If not adopted flock, it sounds like you're extended flock. Wonderful!
Thank you, again. Looking forward to the next video!
I pray you helped the Kea at the 13 second mark with the damaged beam. Poor thing😢😢
Thank you for this video, Patrick! I remember one of the babies at Willowbank having a weird contact(?) call. The tone went more up and down than usual. Sounded very funny. Was it still learning how to screech properly?
Potentially, if the tone was going up and repeatedly they may have actually been attempting to learn a warble. Our guys at Willowbank seem to often attach a bit of screech to the start of their warble (especially the juveniles) so that’s what it could be. If it was one big overemphasised up and down then they were probably trying to learn to screech properly though.
@@AnimalMindsLab Yup, the overemphasised one :D Thank you!
ty, this was interesting :)
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Most of the kea I know speak English.