Stunning Keas have been crowned NZ Bird of the Year…Revisiting their messages that they shared April 2016.
Keas shares that they are King or Queen of all they survey, but we must also feel like King or Queen of what we survey so that we treasure and caretake what is important!!!
“We are scrumptiously hysterically fantastically spectacular clowns.With us Keas it is always about laughter, laughter ready to bubble over, laughter presented and that is the vibe that we live with. We have no wish to be without laughter. We can also be serious, if there is a need for seriousness.
We feast on the delights of life.
We might have made it all sound like we are senseless and do not have intelligence, but we are ranked by some research that has been carried out as number one parrot for intelligence in the world – pretty impressive!!!
And for people that do not know of us, we are parrots, but we are also the only Alpine parrot in the entire big world – now that alone is spectacular, is it not.
For us attitude is the badge that we wear with honour, and the attitude that we wear with honour is relating to ‘can do’ ‘why not’ ‘what is caution – duh forget caution – and live with just doing’.
We are great problem solvers, and due to our intelligence we love a quest, a challenge and sussing out what is what and making it work.
Our intelligence also leads us to big trouble at times, as we can be so intensely insanely insatiable curious about what is ‘that’, and before you know it we can be dismantling ‘that’ which could be something attached to a vehicle, or ‘that’ could be we have spied someone’s bag and loving the zips or the clasps and start playing pestering away at the bag.
Our curiosity is tinged with childlike laughter, and this is our sheer beauty. But some might see our behaviour as malicious or unnecessary, but we as yet haven’t learnt to control ourselves, or fit exactly into the human world of behaviour. We have our own rules, and our rules suit us just fine, and our rules we feel are more in harmony with how it should be. But also in harmony with our natural environment.
We actually have great caring, and even though we can be rowdy in energy, rowdy in behaviour at times, we exhibit great caring, and we love hanging out with our family. Keas have great bonds with other Keas and we do work together so that we can achieve.
We know that you humans want a deep personal profound message, and yip you will get one – just settle down, and then we will be polite and share away.
Even though we have played with words to make us sound fools at times, the words are also jolly. And why not be jolly, why do you have to be so earnest that you forget to be jolly.
We do work hard, it’s hard work to survive in our environment. Winters can be utterly ruthlessly cold; but we do find a way to keep ourselves warm, and we might create nest burrows, or we might just flap our wings a bit more than we would if the weather was warmer. Flapping our wings a bit more keeps the blood circulating through our body, and also helps our lungs cope with the cold, remember we live in high altitudes and the higher up in the altitude then oxygen needs can be different depending on species.
Oddly enough, we love walking around and yes this can be a parrot thing to walk around rather than just navigating by wing, but the walking is sheer joy for us to do this. We just love the expressions that our bodies feel, we just love the power of walking but also the power of flight.
When we do fly, we expose the beautiful undercarriage of our wings, and our natural colouring is olive green with slight iridescent hues captured only on some feathers…But when our wings are stretched out we are displaying orange flashes of brilliance, and it is like we have got jewels hidden from view, and when we take to flight the jewels are exposed. This alone is an important message for humans, and one that we want you to think about for yourself….
What do you expose about yourself? Are there moments when you bring forward your hidden jewels of delight, and the moments are of spectacular-ness. When you take flight and soaring high, you are exposing your own jewels of delight.
We blend into our natural environment with ease, and we can camouflage ourselves and be less exposed…or we can be exposed and chatting, walking around, feeling like the King or Queen of what we survey… and we feel like this due to the eager thrust of living.
Now take a pause, and go and take yourself for a walk, and alter your energy slightly or alter your energy greatly. Walk around like you own the show with eager thrust of living, and this doesn’t mean