The Department of Conservation flew ranger Iain Graham and his dog Brew to Adams Wilderness. They found the elusive female kiwi and collected feathers for DNA confirmation-called “almost miraculous.” ...

Many birds fly, but some, like penguins and ostriches, don't, revealing an evolutionary twist. Flightless birds adapted to ...

Kiwi bird genome sequenced The kiwi, national symbol of New Zealand, gives insights into the evolution of nocturnal animals ... They only have rudimentary wings, ...

BERLIN (AP) — Scientists say they have sequenced the genome of the brown kiwi for the first time, revealing that the shy, flightless bird likely lost its ability to see colors after it became ...

Conservationists have discovered two kiwi chicks in Wellington, the first wild births for the bird in the New Zealand capital in over 150 years. News Today's news ...

The rarest species of kiwi bird was seen on a trail camera in a new area suggesting the population is large enough to expand in New Zealand.

A member of the Capital Kiwi Project team changes the transmitter on a male kiwi in Wellington, New Zealand, on April 12, 2023. Mitre 10 pulled a kiwi dog toy following backlash from conservationists.

The national bird, the kiwi, has hatched eggs in the wild in the Wellington area for the first time in living memory, thanks to a multiyear conservation effort. Share full article. 41.

That is not photoshopped. It is an actual x-ray image showing an egg roughly one-quarter the mass of the bird carrying it. If humans carried babies that big, we’d give birth to 30-pound infants.

Conservationists have discovered two kiwi chicks in Wellington, the first wild births recorded for the bird in the New Zealand capital in over 150 years.. The two new chicks come just a year after ...