rhamphotheca:2 New White Kiwi Chicks Hatch at Pukaha Mount Bruce, NZA Department of Conservation ran
rhamphotheca:2 New White Kiwi Chicks Hatch at Pukaha Mount Bruce, NZA Department of Conservation ranger checking a male kiwi’s transmitter at Pukaha Mount Bruce last week found not one but two newly hatched white kiwi asleep in a burrow. This brings the number of white North Island Brown kiwi to be hatched at the National Wildlife Centre, located 15 minutes drive north of Masterton, since 2010 to five.“The burrow the white kiwi chicks were found in belongs to the father of the three other white kiwi previously hatched at Pukaha,” says Helen Tickner, general manager Pukaha Mount Bruce…(read more: NZ Dept. of Conservation) -- source link