The 2012 mating season hasn’t gone to plan for Norton the little spotted kiwi. Mrs N produced two eggs before leaving Norton sitting on the nest until hatching – normally 65 to 75 days later.

If Graham’s ears were correct — honed by his profession as a Biodiversity ranger — then he knew he was hearing two creatures ...

The Department of Conservation flew ranger Iain Graham and his dog Brew to Adams Wilderness. They found the elusive female kiwi and collected feathers for DNA confirmation-called “almost miraculous.” ...

A little spotted kiwi nearly stole the Bird of the Year election this year with fraudulent votes. In a major upset, it was the kakapo -- the world's fattest parrot -- who was ultimately elected.

An adult brown kiwi (Apteryx australis) beside the egg of a huge elephant bird (Aepyornis maximus) is shown in this undated handout provided by Paul Scofield and Kyle Davis at the Caterbury Museum ...

(Phys.org) —A group of researchers at Victoria University studying the little spotted kiwi are uncovering surprising results about our national bird's behaviour.

In 2000, little spotted kiwi — the smallest and rarest of the six kiwi species — were released into Karori, returning the bird to the wild on the mainland for the first time in a century.

The little spotted kiwi is an at-risk species — there are believed to be about 1,500 of the birds currently living in an around New Zealand, according to conservationists.

2. Kiwis lay the biggest eggs in relation to body size of any bird—each egg is around 20 percent of the mother’s total body weight. It takes a female kiwi a month to produce a single egg, and ...