Nestor meridionalis
The New Zealand kākā is a large species of parrot of the family Strigopidae found in native forests of New Zealand. The species is often known by the abbreviated name kākā, although it shares this name with the Norfolk kākā and Chatham kākā, both recently extinct. Two subspecies of New Zealand kākā are recognised. It is endangered and has disappeared from much of its former range, though the re-introduction of North Island kākā at Zealandia in Wellington has led to an increasing population of the birds across the city.
Kate Macbeth · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Also called
- New Zealand kakaPBDB
- Sits inside
- NestorPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Coelurosauria
- Life habit
- ground dwelling, solitaryPBDB, for Theropoda
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Theropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Theropoda
- Mass
- 458 gWikidata
Time the record covers
At most 129 thousand years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 129 ka and 0 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
9 occurrences of Nestor meridionalis on record, most of them in the Holocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.
When
9 occurrences- Pleistocene33%
- Holocene67%
These are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.
Found in
1 formation
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The named rock units Nestor meridionalis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 6 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Nestor meridionalis and its relatives
HoloceneWhere Nestor meridionalis and its relatives were recorded in the Holocene.
Found in the same rock
139 taxa- Anas chlorotis9 sites
- Corvus moriorum8 sites
- Gallirallus australis8 sites
- Apteryx australis7 sites
- Cyanoramphus7 sites
- Ardenna grisea6 sites
- Coturnix novaezelandiae6 sites
- Emeus crassus6 sites
- Eudyptes pachyrhynchus6 sites
- Eudyptula minor6 sites
- Fulica prisca6 sites
- Harpagornis moorei6 sites
- Pachyornis elephantopus6 sites
- Phalacrocorax punctatus6 sites
- Tadorna variegata6 sites
- Turnagra capensis6 sites
- Callaeas cinereus5 sites
- Chenonetta finschi5 sites
- Circus eylesi5 sites
- Cygnus sumnerensis5 sites
- Euryapteryx geranoides5 sites
- Haematopus unicolor5 sites
- Hemiphaga novaeseelandiae5 sites
- Larus dominicanus5 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Nestor meridionalis, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too. The 24 sharing the most are listed.
This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.
Entered from
4 references- Late-Pleistocene avifaunas from Cape Wanbrow, Otago, South Island, New Zealand3
- A remarkable fossil and archaeological avifauna from Marfells Beach, Lake Grassmere, South Island, New Zealand3
- Quaternary fossil fauna of South Canterbury, South Island, New Zealand2
- Fossils indicate Pelecanoides georgicus had large colonies at Mason Bay, Stewart Island, New Zealand1
Each of the 9 occurrences read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. Entries link to doi.org where the Paleobiology Database holds an identifier, and to its own record where it does not. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content1
Picture of Nestor meridionalis
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Kate Macbeth
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Nestor meridionalis was found in Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.
The description on this site
- Source
- Wikipedia, “Kākā”
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itNestor through timeFormations of the HoloceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Gmelin 1788)