If you've ever had a kea nibble your car tyre or seen the mountain parrot move a traffic cone for no earthly reason, you'd know -- these cheeky birds do things just because they want to.

With global warming decreasing the size of New Zealand's alpine zone, a University of Otago study found out what this means for our altitude-loving kea.

University of Otago. "How New Zealand's cheeky kea and kaka will fare with climate change." ScienceDaily. ScienceDaily, 27 May 2021. <www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2021 / 05 / 210527112549.htm>.

The birds were bred at the San Diego Zoo’s Keauhou Bird Conservation Center on the big island of Hawaii and taken to Pu’u Mali on Mauna Kea for release.

The rare parrot, called a kea, is known for its cheeky and clever nature. The GoPro owner said she was shocked to find the camera had been filming the whole time.

The GoPro camera was placed on the balcony hoping to catch a glimpse of the kea, but one of the birds snatched the camera in its beak and flew off, filming its get-away around the idyllic national ...