Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An adult brown kiwi (Apteryx australis) beside the egg of a huge elephant bird (Aepyornis maximus) is shown in this undated ...

When two massive volcanic eruptions blanketed New Zealand in ash, they forever changed the genetics of the North Island brown kiwi bird, a new study from the University of Toronto Scarborough has ...

Its unusual biological characteristics make the flightless kiwi a unique kind of bird. Researchers have now sequenced the genetic code of this endangered species and have identified several sequence ...

History was made March 30 in the Bird House at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo when its first female brown kiwi chick (Apteryx mantelli) emerged from her shell. To mark this historic hatching, keepers ...

A six-year-old male brown kiwi (Apteryx mantelli) named Manaia died Saturday, May 26, at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo. He had not exhibited any warning signs of clinical illness. Typically, kiwi are ...

The flightless kiwi is an iconic bird for New Zealanders, but all five species are threatened by habitat loss and introduced predators. Recent genomic analysis focused on one species, the South Island ...

The Fiordland Lobster Company is once again lending a helping hand to the most iconic of our endangered native birds, the kiwi. This time it’s the little spotted kiwi, apteryx owenii, the most ...

A white kiwi, only the third of its kind in captivity, has hatched at a nature reserve on NZ’s North Island. AT LITTLE MORE THAN 300g, the most recently hatched kiwi chick at Pukaha Mount Bruce ...

Dec. 28 (UPI) --A rare 9-year-old white kiwi living at a wildlife center in New Zealand has died after it had surgery to remove an infertile egg that became stuck inside. The North Island kiwi, named ...

This news release is available in German. Its unusual biological characteristics make the flightless kiwi a unique kind of bird. Researchers of the University of Leipzig and the Max Planck Institute ...