A parrot steals a GoPro, and then gives us this gorgeous footage of New Zealand's remote Fiordland

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Parrots; the goats of the air.

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i-Kea?

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oh my god bird! horizontal or vertical. pick one!

( also, i feel like i now know what being eaten alive by a pterodactyl would look like )

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Christ, what cloaca!

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That parrot’s pretty fly.

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I want to go to there.

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I wonder if New Zealand has the same “nonhuman photographer” exemption the USA has about copyright. Because that was beautiful, particularly the in-flight portion, and I would support buying the kea their very own cameras from any Youtube revenue.

edit: NZ, not AUS

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FSST! No talent humans. Parrots got vision. Owls got moves.

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Ok, even the urban dictionary is failing me. What does FSST stand for?

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That parrot was tagged it looks like. I don’t know how this changes this story, but it was a thing I noticed.

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Fiordland

Good name for a band.

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I’m amazed they found it–seems like that bird took it quite a long ways away. Is it just me, though, or is there a slight edit in there at one point? Maybe they spent a couple hours trying to track it down.

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eek. fixed. thanks.

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Is this the dawn of a new era of found footage horror films? I hope so.

I was half expecting there to be a shadowy, ominous figure lurking in the background wearing an elaborate headdress of parrot beaks.

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It seems that the “thief” is eating something that comes off from the camera. So I guess the YouTuber staged the theft by applying something edible over the camera. The parrot got fed so I guess it’s a good type of staging.

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The New Zealand Green is famous for pinin’ for the Fiordlands, 'e is.

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As the description explains these birds are famous for grabbing human items and ripping them apart. The part in the bird’s beak looked like a chunk of the plastic housing on the camera more than anything a bird would normally eat.

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Remarkable bird, the Kea. Beautiful plumage.

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