Despite its symbolic power, the kiwi is heartbreakingly vulnerable. Before humans arrived in New Zealand, the islands were a paradise for birds, with no land mammals to threaten them. The arrival ...

Kiwi fruit are tasty, but you don't want to eat this kind of kiwi. Kiwi birds look a lot like the fruit with their soft, fluffy feathers, but they're meant for hugging, not eating. Before you ...

The North Island brown kiwi is a flightless, nocturnal bird that lays the biggest egg relative to its body size. Marilyn Foehrenbach Q: I’ve read that ostriches lay the biggest eggs. But what ...

This supposedly led to one exporter called Turners and Growers getting the idea of calling the fruit after New Zealand’s native bird kiwi, due to their similarities as they are both small ...

The Kiwi has returned to Nelson – with the release of 40 Nelson’s Brook Waimārama Sanctuary. Nick Smith celebrated the ...

The kiwi translocation season is an "epic effort across the motu to look after our national symbol", a conservationist says.

As part of ongoing and successful restoration efforts, new technology is being used to keep track of kiwi at Whinray Scenic ...