kiwi story

The Kiwi


Noah D’Rose


I am learning to inform my audience through an information report.

What is a bird that is roughly the size of a chicken, fluffy and and can't fly even though it has wings? Yes, the kiwi. This extraordinary bird can run up to 26 km per hour, that's as fast as the average human. Many people think that the South Island Brown kiwi is the only type of kiwi that exists, but there are actually five different types of Kiwi, The North Island Kiwi, Little Spotted Kiwi, the Great Spotted Kiwi and the Okarito kiwi. All kiwi are flightless birds that are related to some very large flightless birds such as the Emu, Moa and Ostrich. However one giant difference is that the kiwi still remains the size of a chicken. The kiwi is actually quite unique as it is the only bird that has its nostrils located on the end of its beak. The nostrils not only help it breathe but also makes it easier to drink and feed.


Diet
Slam, whack, bam that's the sound of a kiwi killing its lunch. This bird fishes but it gets the most bizarre things from its habitat. They live by streams and rivers so they can catch freshwater crayfish, tuna and salmon. They don't need to drink any water because they eat worms and worms make up 85% of their water. The kiwi bird can live in many habitats like in forest, dunes and more!


Habitat
We all enjoy our own personal space or in other words our habitat. A habitat is a place where a living or a non living thing lives to survive. Kiwis are great adapters, they can live from forest to farmland, sand dunes and snowy places.They like to live by streams so they can fish. They like to make borrows as there home but they have to be careful for many predators are lurking around.

Predators
Almost everything has a predator and this is no except for the kiwi. There are many threats and dangers that the kiwi has to face each and every day. A long time ago New Zealand actually had over 12 million kiwis but that changed as predators have been introduced to New Zealand. Such predators that stalk and hunt the kiwi are pigs, stoats, rats, cats, dogs and possums. This leaving the flightless bird on the forest floor open to these threats. There are now fewer than 100,000 kiwis left in New Zealand.





As you can see the kiwi is extremely precious to New Zealand, it is our native bird that can only be found in New Zealand. We need to learn and study about the kiwi in order for us to understand the diet needs of a kiwi, what the kiwi needs in order to live and breed within their habitat and to ensure it is safe from its predators. If one of these are missing then the kiwi would not survive. Without its diet it would starve, without its habitat it would get eaten and without its predators this bird would not be challenged and it would not evolve and adapt. The kiwi bird is our nation icon, we need to protect the kiwi so it is round for future generations because it is our treasure.