Polly wants a very big cracker.

Fossils of the largest parrot ever recorded have been identified in New Zealand, according to a new study published in the journal Biology Letters.

The bird, which roamed New Zealand during the Miocene epoch about 19 million years ago, stood at 3 feet, 2 inches, roughly half the height of the average human, according to the BBC.

Weighing in at about 15 pounds, the bird would have been two times heavier than the kākāpo, previously the largest known parrot.

Given its mammoth size for a bird, which has been dubbed Heracles inexpectatus in recognition of its size, it is believed to have been flightless.

“There are no other giant parrots in the world,” Professor Trevor Worthy, a paleontologist at Flinders University in Australia and lead author of the study, told the BBC. “Finding one is very significant.”

The bones – which were found near St. Bathans in New Zealand’s Otago region – were initially thought to belong to an eagle or duck and kept in storage for 11 years.

Earlier this year, one of Worthy’s students came across the bones by accident during a research project in his lab. A team of paleontologists reanalyzed them and made the discovery.

“Once we decided it was something new and interesting, the challenge was to figure out what family it was from,” Worthy said, according to The Guardian.

“Because no giant parrots have been found previously, parrots were not on our radar – thus it took some time to differentiate all other birds essentially from parrots to conclude that the unique suite of characters was definitive of a parrot,” he said.

The parrot’s beak would have been so big, it “could crack wide open anything it fancied,” said Mike Archer, a paleontologist at the University of New South Wales in Australia.

The parrot “may well have dined on more than conventional parrot foods, perhaps even other parrots,” Archer told Agence France-Presse.

But because the parrot had no predators, it is unlikely that it was aggressive, Worthy told the BBC.

“It probably sat on the ground, walked around and ate seeds and nuts, mostly,” he said.

The bones will go on display at an exhibition in November.