Kākāriki Feather, 4x Objective
(Cyanoramphus novaezelandiae, Red-Crowned Parakeet)
Many people have been taught that kākāriki means "green", which is true.
But there follows a common assumption that our native parakeets are called kākāriki because they are green - this isn't quite right.
"Kākā" means parrot, while "riki" is a suffix roughly meaning "little" or "in abundance". The use of kākāriki to mean "green" actually comes from the briliant verdure of these birds, the greenest of all things in Aotearoa - not the other way around!
This image is a composites of ~20 "slices" meticulously captured with an OMAX microscope, focus-stacked and stitched together.
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Kākāriki Feather
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