Brownish-green New Zealand parrot

Usage examples of kea.

Each of the thirty-six mirrors in the Keck Telescope, also on Mauna Kea, had been only seventy-two inches across.

The reason he had wanted to consult with this woman, whose mark had been made in microanalysis, was that someone had presented Kea with a particle concept.

Kea had seen of the longliners that hung off Earth, or the torchships that sat like so many oranges, torches underwater, out beyond the barrier.

Kea could have done a more exact job of stage-managing, but he knew just how sensitive and paranoiac the incompetent were.

As well as three tuis, there were also bellbirds, blue wattle crows, kea and native pigeon, totaling fifty specimens.

Kea noticed, as he slid unobtrusively to the cashbox, that the man was a Samoan.

I remember the rainbow-coloured harbour of Honolulu Hilo, the simply joyous Arcadie at the foot of Mauna Loa, and Mauna Kea which lifted violet shoulders to the morning, the groves of cocoa-palms and tamarinds, the waterfalls dropping over sheer precipices a thousand feet into the ocean, the green embrasures where the mango, the guava, and the lovi lovi grow, and where the hibiscus lifts red hands to the light.

With galaxies opening in front of him, Kea imagined he could live without caviar or cabrito for a spell.

The older man said that before Kea returned to Earth, they would have to talk. About the future.

Over the peak of Mauna Kea air flows more smoothly than above any other high site in the world.

She was half-Thai, half-Irish, which is where Kea got his eyes, as blue as the skies above in the winter, when the trade winds blew away the pollution.

While Nancy used the flare gun to distract the terrorists, Mick and Theo would emerge from Kea Lake, free George and Kevin, and guide them out through the underwater passage.

When Jord is kidnaped by the gangsters Tig Fromm and Vlix, the Droids, Thall, and the mysterious Kea board Thall's hot rod landspeeder, the White Witch, to go rescue him.

Kea, trying to keep from laughing, came up with some plausible story about labwork and study.

Sailors shipwrecked in southern waters swear the kea shows the way to safe harbors.