Tuesday, June 16, 2009

Kiwi

The Kiwi is a New Zealand icon aand it is a endangered species. There are eleven types of kiwi... 
there is the Little Spotted Kiwi, Brown Kiwi, Rowi, Great Spotted Kiwi, Haast Tokoeka and Southern Tokoeka.

The biggest Kiwi is the Great Spotted Kiwi at 45 cm long, the size of a Turkey and the smallest Kiwi is the Little Spotted Kiwi at 25 cm long the size of a Bantam.

There are only 78,000 Kiwis left in New Zealand. They are found in North land, Coromandel, South land,west coast and Stewart Island and they live in forest and on mainland islands.

There body features are claws, bill ,feathers, whiskers and long strong powerful legs. The Kiwi can't fly so they run from predators.  There predators are stoats, ferrets, cats and humans driving cars.

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