The North Island brown kiwi is a flightless, nocturnal bird that lays the biggest egg relative to its body size. Marilyn Foehrenbach Q: I’ve read that ostriches lay the biggest eggs. But what ...

The kiwi in Wellington are North Island Brown Kiwi or Kiwi Nui, and have been relocated from another wild source site. Ward ...

The Southern brown kiwi or Tokoeka (Apteryx australis) North Island brown kiwi (Apteryx mantelli) The great spotted kiwi is the largest, and the little spotted kiwi is the smallest. All of them ...

And oh yes, there are more than 2000 North Island (Western) Brown Kiwi thriving in there as well. Thriving is the operative word. It certainly didn’t always go that well in the past: the decline ...