On Dec. 9, 2020, a photograph supposedly showing the skeleton of a Kiwi bird and its unusually large egg was shared on social media: We have not been able to source this specific picture, but we have ...

A bumper harvest of kiwi eggs has marked the first half of this year’s kiwi conservation work in the Maungataniwha Native Forest in inland Hawke’s Bay. Conservationists working for the Forest ...

The 2019/2020 kiwi egg-lifting season is approaching its mid-way mark and a leading Hawkes Bay kiwi conservation initiative is reporting good numbers of eggs despite a slow start. The Forest Lifeforce ...

Hawke’s Bay’s Forest Lifeforce Restoration Trust has reported a near-record number of kiwi egg upliftings this season. Fifty-one viable eggs were sent to the National Kiwi Hatchery in Rotorua during ...

For the first time, an egg laid by a female brown kiwi at the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute (SCBI) in Front Royal, Va., hatched May 10. The chick is the first for parents Ngati Hine Rua ...

Conservationists have discovered a North Island brown kiwi egg has been laid in the wild, just two months after eleven birds were released into the southwest of Wellington. Capital Kiwi project lead ...

Rescuers were not sure whether the kiwi chick would make it after a volunteer inspecting its nest in Western New Zealand accidentally put a thumb through its shell. "The team [...] had never seen an ...

Little wonder then that in the kiwi world, looking after the egg is the dad's job. For about two months, the male kiwi carefully sits on the egg its partner has laid, defending its precious orb ...