The
New Zealand parrot superfamily (
Strigopoidea) consists of three
genera of
parrots,
Nestor,
Strigops and the fossil
Nelepsittacus. The genus
Nestor consists of the
kea,
kaka,
Norfolk Island kaka and
Chatham Island kaka, while the genus
Strigops contains the iconic
kakapo. All extant species are
endemic to
New Zealand. The species of the genus
Nelepsittacus were endemics of the main islands, while the two extinct species of the genus
Nestor were found at the nearby oceanic islands like
Chatham Island of New Zealand, and
Norfolk Island and
Phillip Island of
Australia. The modern common species names,
kea,
kaka and
kakapo, are the same as the original
Maori names.
