Kiwi birds look a lot like the fruit with their soft ... Under all the shaggy feathers are extremely strong legs. They run around 12 mph, or about the speed of a recreational sprinter.

The national bird, the kiwi, has hatched eggs in the wild in the ... with the whiskers of a mouse and dinosaur-like legs, usually growing just two feet tall but laying eggs so large that, in ...

New Zealand’s treasured kiwi birds are shuffling around Wellington’s verdant hills for the first time in a century, after a drive to eliminate invasive predators from the capital’s surrounds. Visitors ...

Kiwi are caught in leg-hold traps set for possums, causing injury and often death for the unfortunate birds, he said. “A kiwi can easily be caught by the leg or beak in a leg-hold trap, often ...

Capturing a kiwi is more challenging than I expected. Despite standing just two feet tall, an adult bird is armed with pistonlike legs and razor-sharp claws. And, according to Will Kahu ...

It’s possible that rival birds, such as a three-meter-tall (10-foot-tall) moa, took over daytime food resources, forcing the kiwi to adopt an alternative lifestyle.

Nick da Fonseca via Unsplash Just as the bald eagle represents freedom in the United States, the Kiwi bird is a symbol of national pride for the island nation of Aotearoa, or New Zealand.

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 ...