KIWIS
A Kiwi is a bird that cant't fly, they barely have any wings . It has the size of a chicken and they are most famous for being NZ "special" bird (they only live there). The Kiwi bird lays the biggest egg, if you compare with their size, in the world, 6 times up to a chicken's egg. The Kiwi birds are really rare and mostly active in the night. Sadly, they are endangered and their biggest threat right now is predation by invasive mammalian predators. They have also been threatend by the deforestation but now they mostly live in national parks.
There are 5 species:
-The Great Spotted Kiwi or Roroa.
-The Little Spotted Kiwi
-The Okarito Kiwi
-The Southern Brown Kiwi , Tokoeka, or Common kiwi
-The North Island Brown Kiwi
The Kiwi bird eats small invertebrates, grubs, worms and seeds but they can also eat fruit and eel etc. The Kiwi can locate insects and worms underground without seeing or feeling them, using their sense of smell! The mating season is from June to March and they only lay about one egg per season. A relationship can carry up to 20 years.
It takes 30 days for the egg to fully develope in the female and meanwhile she must eat three times her normal amount of food. But the last 2-3 days she has to fast for some reason.
sources: wikipedia
