At one point they were gone from the wild. But we have a few small islands that are pest free. The kiwis were able to live there. Now we are clearing the mainland of rats and stoates and releasing kiwis back into the wild.
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OmegaLemmy@discuss.online 6 days agoI genuinely thought kiwi birds were extinct
Fizz@lemmy.nz 5 days ago
porous_grey_matter@lemmy.ml 5 days ago
The Tokoeka (North Island Brown Kiwi) has never been gone from the wild, there’s always been over 20,000 in the wild, mostly in Northland, Coromandel, Te Urewera, and Tongariro. The Southern Tokoeka is also hanging on alright in Rakiura (Stewart Island) and a little in Fiordland. The Roroa (great spotted) and little spotted are near extinct in the wild, the little one particularly is totally wiped out from the North Island and mostly only found on predator free island sanctuaries now.
tamal3@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Are you thinking of dodos? Both have short repetition in their name, but those guys are gone.