Shy is not a word normally applied to Kakariki, the red-crowned parakeet. Noisy? Yes, you can hear them screeching and cackling in the tree-tops from miles away.
A "shy" Kakariki
Messy? Definitely – they leave the remains of their leaf picnics in piles on the forest floor (it’s quite cool, they hold a leaf in one claw and then suck it all around the edge.)
A leaf after a Kakariki has eaten it:
A leaf after a Kakariki has eaten it:
Close up of a Kakariki feather
But shy? Well, they are camera shy at least. And they seem to know when you have a camera too. I have sat outside with a cup of coffee and had a kakariki pair land on the deck nearby, tilting their heads to look at me before sidling around the corner of the hut. But when you want to photograph them they keep under cover. It isn’t hard to follow their movements through the vines - one clump of leaves shakes, then another as they climb about just behind the canopy. I’m sure they know that my lens is trained on them like a cop in a stake-out… one of these days Kakariki, one of these days!
Kakariki "hanging out"
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