Who you calling bird brain mister?
We are Kea’s and we know
We are alpine parrots
With a lot of stuff on show
Just gander at our tuxedo’s
Rainbow feathered, we
With an olive background
And with aquamarine you see
Orange blues and purples
Kinetically we soar
We are alpine parrots
Which no one can ignore
We are above the snow line
Ice digging our forte
And we can soar in thermals
Katabatic ones each day
Known as mountain monkeys
For our brainboxes are good
We can work out puzzles
Better than primates could
We really are inquisitive
Our beaks are sharp and strong
We love to pick at rubber and plastic
Which we know is wrong
We pull things off your motor cars
It is what we do
We are a bloody nuisance
That is people view
We are coming under fire a bit
From the diets people eat
Ice cream and chips is not good for us
And it really can unseat
Our truest equilbrium
And endangered we have become
The stoats are taking our babies out
But when we grow up they are dumb
Compared to us for certain
But as baby birds we see
Them getting into our nests a lot
And killing us rapidly
And then the bloody government
Use 1080 from the air
Poisoning the stoats and rats
And possums everywhere
And we get killed as well alas
Its very toxic stuff
We are dying daily
And we have had enough
Up there in the mountains
Where the air is wholly good
Up above the snow line
As travellers we should
Be pioneers of course we should
And fly around all day
Hitch hike on the back of trucks
Our wildness is our way
All sorts of human puzzles
We figure out real fast
Chimps dont stand a chance with us
Their die alas is cast
And we can fly like crazy
Soar into the blue
The southern alps is where we go
To get away from you
Grassland moorland mountains
Forests even we
Can lend ourselves to anywhere
Anywhere thats free
The wilderness the open sky
Anywhere to soar
We are all beacons of brilliance
Which no one can ignore
Its sad the silly government
Leave those traps around
Its because we are inquisitive
And they are left on the ground
Some of us get crushed in them
It really isnt fair
Because you are not discerning enough
Now we are becoming rare
With the very best intentions
We remain a friendsly lot
Its humans who are ignorant
And too many now have got
A lot less between their ears than us
Feeding us crap that they
Eat now all this fast food
That is killing us today
Remember we are KEA’s
Parrots number one
Up there in the mountains
Flying in the sun
Playing with the falling snow
Anything For you
Like zephrs in the universe
We effervesce we do
We clearly are endangered now
Not many place we
Can be safe in your environment
NEW ZEALAND Actually
Is getting to be a dangeous place
Deapite our clever ways
And we are falling now like flies
Entering a phase
Of losing it completely
So what you have to do
All of you is get with it
And fealjse us KEA’s really do need YOU