Kiwi birds may look like decorative throw pillows from Homegoods, but they're much more athletic than they appear. Under all the shaggy feathers are extremely strong legs.

The national bird, the kiwi, has hatched eggs in the wild in the Wellington area for the first time in living memory, ... “They looked like avocados with long legs,” he joked.

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 ...

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.

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 ...

“One leg, two legs — got it,” Dave Laithwaite, a volunteer at the sanctuary, said while groping around in the mud in the kiwi’s narrow den. He pulled the writhing bird out, then calmed it ...

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 ...

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.