The national bird, the kiwi, has hatched eggs in the wild in the Wellington area for the first time in living memory, thanks to a multiyear conservation effort. Share full article. 41.

Kiwi lay the largest eggs in comparison to their own size of any bird species. For comparison, an ostrich egg weighs about 2 percent of an ostrich, while a kiwi egg can weigh more than 15 percent ...

Clutch size: 2 eggs. A kiwi lays the largest egg in relation to its body size, but hummingbirds come in a close second when you add up the total volume of their two eggs laid in each clutch.

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, a flightless bird native to New Zealand, lays an egg that is a whopping 15% to 22% of her body weight. This is an astonishing figure, especially considering the kiwi’s small size ...

Catching kiwi to take their eggs sounds like something a predator might do, not a conservationist. But this counterintuitive ...

Rowi were down to just 160 birds in the 1990s, according to a Nov. 11 news release from the Department of Conservation, but through the efforts of Operation Nest Egg, their population has grown to ...