The New Zealand parrot family,
Nestoridae consists of nine species in two genera. Only two species in the genus
Nestor, the
New Zealand kaka,
N. merdionalis, and the
kea,
N. notabilis, are still extant. The various species of the second described genus,
Nelepsittacus, are all known as fossils from the early Miocene
Saint Bathans Fauna in the Lower Bannockburn Formation in Otago in New Zealand.