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27 May 2012 - 9:25 pm NZ time
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Suspicion over dead kea
Updated at 4:34 pm on 9 August 2011
The Department of Conservation is suspicious about the death of five young kea near Arthur's Pass.
Kea pictured at Klondyke Corner in March.
PHOTO: RNZ
The department says they were found on Monday piled on a picnic table at Klondyke Corner.
Massey University is doing autopsies on the birds to determine their cause of death.
DoC is calling on anyone who may have been in the area last weekend to come forward.
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